NinePBSReports dives into Missouri’s childcare crisis in “Bridging the Childcare Gap.” Hosted by Tamyka Perine, Executive Director of Gateway Early Childhood Alliance, this episode features early childhood providers, advocates, and parents sharing the real challenges of the state’s child care shortage. Hear our early childhood experts discuss the damaging consequences of the babysitter stigma that surrounds the childcare industry. What are the steps that are being taken to ensure the work early educators are doing is being valued and supported in their community and society as a whole? Child Care Aware of Missouri’s own Beth Ann Lang is a featured contributor.