NEWS:

January 27, 2026: Excellent article published on 19thnews.org about NECCN!! Written by Jessica Kutz, Climate Reporter.
January 21, 2026: A deeply personal and inspiring story about CEO & Founder, Silke Knebel. Featured on VoyageLA.
August 2025: Interview with Founder & CEO, Silke Knebel, aired on Mix 96.5 radio show.
April 24, 2025: Featured in a news article, “Emergency child care volunteers bring relief to WNC families” on 828newsnow.com by Dee Pridgen.
March 2025: Featured in Forbes after the LA Wildfires.
May 29, 2025: Featured in article “Why Child Care Matters” article by Marissa Teng.
June 4, 2025: Featured in article “Caring through Crises: Uniting for Child-Centered Disaster Response” article by Kelsie Hull.

Our Impact:

8,240

Hours of active deployments helping families with free emergency child care.

162

Trained and Vetted Emergency Child Care Volunteers ready for active deployments.

# of families provided with free emergency child care.

106

# of children provided with trauma-informed care.

550

# of Volunteer Registrations to become Emergency Child Care Volunteers.

# of deployments where volunteers helped families in crisis.

146

days of free child care since October 16, 2024.

WHY THIS MATTERS

One of our families in Los Angeles shares why child care is so important after a disaster. Please watch this 2-min video.

Story of 2-year-old Sophia

12 trauma-informed volunteers helped 2-year-old Sophia and her parents with 104 hours of free child care.

We are helping families in Los Angeles who were impacted by the LA Fires.

We provided 7 full-days of free child care for 2-year-old Sophia and her working parents in Pasadena.

Little Sophia’s child care burned down in Altadena. The mom is overwhelmed, stressed and struggling right now and can’t find affordable child care anywhere. They are displaced and living temporarily in a hotel in Eagle Rock since their home in Pasadena was under evacuation and the drinking water is contaminated. She was absolutely desperate for help. 12 trained and vetted child care volunteers provided emergency child care support so little Sophia is safe and cared for from 7:00AM to 4:00PM, bringing incredible relief to the parents.

We are providing long-term recovery support for families who experienced Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

All support is free to families in need.

Our incredible child care volunteers have provided 511 hours of free emergency child care to 44 families with 73 children. We have deployed 36 emergency child care volunteers on 14 deployments.

Jamie, a retired school teacher, has provided 25 days of free child care to 8 families since October 16.

We have nearly 300 volunteers registered, of which 65 have completed the full training and vetting process to become trauma-informed emergency child care volunteers. In one deployment, we are providing emergency child care for the teacher’s kiddos at (4) Asheville elementary schools so the teachers can get back into the classroom and the students can go back to school. For another deployment, we have helped a single mom of 4 young children with three days of free child care. We are making the impossible possible!

NEWS:

Our Impact:

WHY THIS MATTERS

Story of 2-year-old Sophia

Two-year-old Sophia with her Emergency Child Care Volunteer, Grace.

We are helping families in Los Angeles who were impacted by the LA Fires.

We are providing long-term recovery support for families who experienced Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

National Emergency Child Care Network