Cost of Child Care
Improving access to affordable, quality child care is one of NACCRRA’s top goals (NACCRRA, 2012).
Insights
Ø The high price of child care in every community strains household budgets and forces parents to make compromises about the quality and safety of the care they choose for their children.
Ø 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 the District of Columbia.
Ø NACCRRA recommends that Congress-Reduce barriers that prevent families from easily accessing child care assistance.
Office of Child Care…
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/
Andrea,
ReplyDeleteThank you for pointing out the cost of not just preschool, but for full-time child care. A majority of families have to work full-time jobs. The cost of having someone care for your child full-time can be staggering. I know at one point, we were paying $400 a month. To some that may not seem like a lot, but on what we were making, it was. thank you for sharing!
Hi Andrea!
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting that you discussed the costs of child care and how this affects families and children's accessibility to quality education programs. It is alarming to know that parents can pay as much as $18,000 per year in the District of Columbia. I have also been exploring the NACCRRA website. I will be exploring this website more in-depth. Thanks for providing this important information!
Hi Andrea,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. The cost of child care is enough alone. That is why it is imperative for childhood programs ensure high-quality. Thanks for sharing your resources,