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How Two Kansas Counties Expanded Child Care Access

February 17, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Counties Expanded Child Care

Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. Access to Quality Child Care When we ensure all families have access to quality child care options — regardless of their income level or where they live — we build the critical infrastructure necessary for

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Change is Possible

February 8, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
expanding access to child care

Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine.  How Kansas Communities are Expanding Access to Child Care Many think the child care system is too broken to change. Kansas communities are proving  the naysayers wrong. Small incremental changes on the

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Grants for Communities Working on Child Care

February 8, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Grants for Communities

Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine.  Is Your Community Interested in Working to Build Child Care Capacity? We can help with funding and technical assistance. Child Care Aware of Kansas, in partnership with the Kansas Department for Children and

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How to Use the Child Care Tax Credit for Your Business

January 27, 2023 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Child Care Tax Credit

Originally published in the Winter 2023 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine. The most common challenge parents face when searching for child care is cost. In Kansas, the average monthly cost for infant care is $680 per child in a home care environment and $1,259 in a child care center. The

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How Family Child Care Providers Can Become Advocates

January 24, 2023 | By Desiree Donovan
providers can become advocates

Originally published in the Winter 2023 issue of Kansas Child Magazine.  As providers, we are often encouraged to advocate and become involved in issues that affect the children and families we serve. For a busy family child care provider, what does that look like exactly? When I started

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Reasons to Call the Child Care Go Team

December 16, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Child Care Go Team

From Johnson City to Johnson County, Kansans need child care. At Child Care Aware of Kansas, we (and anyone who visits the data page) see this plainly in the data. On top of that, we’ve heard – and continue to hear – from parents and caregivers across the state that there is a lack

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Child Care Provider Supports

More People Now Qualify for Child Care Assistance

November 15, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Funding Impacts Child Care. Child Care Assistance

By Nichelle Adams, Early Education and Child Care Services Manager, Kansas Department for Children and Families. Originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Kansas Child Magazine. To be initially eligible for Child Care Assistance, a family of four can make nearly 70,000 a year. Many

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American Rescue Plan (ARP) Child Care Stabilization Funds Impacts Kansas Children

October 28, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Funding Impacts Child Care. Child Care Assistance

Source: ARP Child Care Stabilization Funding State Fact Sheets | The Administration for Children and Families (hhs.gov) The Administration for Children and Families released new data showing that child care stabilization funds provided in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) have served

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How a Community Council on Child Care Can Help Families Succeed

August 8, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Child Care Provider Encouraging a Child to Board School Bus

How a Community Council on Child Care Can Help Families Succeed As parents and providers know well, each school year presents new challenges for child care programs. Providers are often forced to make difficult decisions about how to operate their business, care for the children

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An Innovative Grant/Loan Hybrid to Attract New Providers

July 8, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
An Innovative Grant/Loan

An Innovative Grant/Loan Hybrid to Attract New Providers By Kelly Gourley, Executive Director, Lincoln County Economic Development Foundation. Originally published in the Spring 2022 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine. Like so many other communities across the state,  Lincoln County has

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Filling the Void

February 21, 2022 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas
Making child care work for Kansas Stressed Child Care Provider

Concordia School District Provides Child Care Through Community Collaboration By Krystal Breese, Director of Curriculum/Assessment, USD 333 , originally published in the Winter 2022 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine. Early childhood experiences are the foundation for a student’s future

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Start With Those Who Know The Challenge Best

August 24, 2021 | By Child Care Aware of Kansas

By Julia McBride, Vice President, Kansas Leadership Center Originally published in the Winter 2021 Issue of Kansas Child Magazine If you aspire to launch more creative child care solutions, you know you need to get par­ents and child care providers involved. Don’t delay! Too many

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