Children’s early years lay the foundation for future learning, behavior and health and have a huge impact on brain development into adulthood. Unfortunately, there is an acute lack of high-quality, affordable child care, especially for infants and toddlers. All Our Kin works to increase the supply, quality, and sustainability of home-based family child care programs, which often serve the children and families facing the greatest barriers to accessing care. With the support of Family Prosperity, All Our Kin created recommendations for state and local leaders about how to build thriving family child care systems that meet the diverse needs of all families. Now, through our inaugural Family Child Care Policy Cohort, we are working with 10 teams of state and local leaders across the country to implement those recommendations. By leveraging the data, stories, and lessons learned through our direct service work to influence policy, All Our Kin is well positioned to transform opportunities for thousands of young children, their families, and their child care providers.

Stories featuring All Our Kin

The Aspen Family Prosperity Innovation Community Phase II sought to find and foster the most effective and innovative strategies to accelerate social ...
Aspen Family Prosperity Innovation CommunityMay 3, 2023
As an organization with a vibrant Early Head Start program and a two-generational approach to alleviating poverty, All Our Kin has been a proud partne...
Aspen Family Prosperity Innovation CommunityAugust 11, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has made more evident than ever the need to transform policies, practice, and systems to build upon the inherent resilience of f...
BlogDecember 9, 2020
Ascend is honored that our Executive Director Anne Mosle has been named to the Holding Co.’s CARE 100 List, a first-of-its-kind list of the people d...
BlogOctober 23, 2020
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Our world has changed. The wave of uncertainty touched off by the pandemic is becoming an ongoing process of relearning how to live, work and care for...
BlogJuly 28, 2020
Smiling Family With Parents Giving Children Piggyback Rides In Garden At Home
Contact: Lindsay Broyhill Ascend at the Aspen Institute lindsay.broyhill@aspeninstitute.org  Bold Leaders to Advance Innovative Strateg...
BlogJuly 22, 2020
As the hub for breakthrough ideas and collaborations that move children and their parents toward educational success and economic security, Ascen...
BlogMay 11, 2020
Family Prosperity convening III
In February, Ascend launched the Aspen Family Prosperity Innovation Community in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to bring together...
BlogDecember 20, 2018
AFPIC Network Partners
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Lindsay Broyhill Ascend at the Aspen Institute Tel: 202.721.5596 lindsay.broyhill@aspeninstitute.org 10 Community Organizations ...
BlogSeptember 27, 2018

Convenings Featuring All Our Kin

Location: Washington, DC & Virtual
The Ascend Network is now nearly 500 organizations deep, with partners focused on a range of 2Gen approaches, from dyadic mental health treatment to integrated early childhood and community college supports. We’ll hear from some leading Partners on...
ConveningApril 11, 2023