CHILD CARE
CHAMPIONS
Community Investments
Increase access to high-quality child care and provide stability for child care businesses in your local community.
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Participate in a regional business collaborative for collective action.
How to Support
Your Region
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Participate in “consortium-sponsored child care” by joining forces with other employers to finance child care run by a contracted operator.
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Sponsor a contracted slots model to increase opportunities for high-quality child care and provide stability for child care providers in your local neighborhood.
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Invest in expanding or improving facilities; consider “flipping” extra facility space into child care facilities to serve employees’ children and putting child care employees on the company’s payroll; both of these options can offer tax incentives.
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Participate in a "regional business collaborative" for peer-to-peer support, research and information-sharing, and collective advocacy.
Celebrate peer businesses that are doing good work supporting employees and the child care sector — i.e. “Champions for Child Care.”
Check back here soon for more details and resources on how to implement these strategies.
See it in Action
Partner with a Child Care Center
UPMC, Allegheny Health Network, and Sheetz partner with Bright Horizons Childcare to offer priority child care placement for employees.