COST OF CARE
Improving access to affordable, quality child
care is one of NACCRRA’s top goals (NACCRRA, 2012).
INSIGHTS
*The high price of child care in every community strains household budgets and forces parents to make compromise about the quality and safety of the care they choose for their children.
*The average annual cost of full-time child
care for an infant in a center in 2010 ranged from $4,650 in Mississippi to more than 18, 200 in District Columbia.
*NACCRRA recommends that Congress-Reduce
barriers that prevent families from easily accessing childcare assistance.
Office of Childcare
As I was searching through the National Association of Child Care
Resource & Referral Agencies, I notice Health and Human Service Office
of Child Care part of the resource section.
The Office of Child Care supports low-income working families through
child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving
the quality of early care and education and afterschool programs (Dept. of HHS,
2012). On the website, I found
information on section for child care research. This section has the list of
child care consists of grantees and contractors who have worked on research
projects and partnerships funded by ACF, and Research Connections which is a
web-based, interactive database of research documents and public use data sets
for conducting secondary analyses on topics related to early care and education.
Cost
of Child Care | NACCRRA.org.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.naccrra.org/public-policy/cost-of-child-care
Naccrra, the national association of child care resource
& referral agencies. (2012). Retrieved
from http://www.naccrra.org
Office
of Child Care - Administration for Children and Families.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/occ/
Department of
Health & Human Services: Office of Child Care. (2012). Retrieved from
http://www. acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb
You mention Congress reducing barriers for families to receive assitance. Often the barrier is the criteria of qualifying for the assistance. If they reduce the criteria, than they will have to come up with more funding. Do you have suggestions or ideas about how to make this work successfully?
ReplyDeleteAntowah,
ReplyDeleteChildcare for the current economy has declined greatly, but it seems more families are finding ways to make it. It helps to have programs that support families living in poverty or low-income, with childcare and education. Thank you for sharing this information.