Sarah Morgan was looking forward to enrolling her 1-year-old son Lucas at the Skagit Valley Family YMCA’s early learning center in Anacortes, Washington, this fall. Her older son Jameson, 5, had a ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Changes are coming to the way the South Dakota Department of Social Services handles child care assistance for qualified families. In December, DSS announced it would change the ...

Amy Lee Funes puts a hat on her son Leo before walking him home from the bus stop after school. Funes is unable to afford the child care she needs in order to work and assistance has been sporadic. As ...

MANITOWOC, Wis. — It was during the height of the pandemic that Sachin Shivaram realized the depth of his employees' struggles with child care. The CEO of the 115-year-old Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry ...

As a working mother of a 2-year-old daughter, access to child care is incredibly important in our day-to-day lives. As the sole provider for my household and the primary parent, I face many challenges ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Starting today, the Department of Economic Security reinstated a waitlist for the thousands of Arizona families who need help paying for child care. The agency says this is due to ...

Child care workers who earn too much to qualify for the state's existing child care scholarship may be eligible for a new six-month tuition assistance program. Editor's note: This story was updated on ...

In New York, low and even middle income families can get help paying for licensed childcare for their children. It’s called CCAP, or the Child Care Assistance Program. Expanding that program by making ...

Douglas County commissioners met for their fourth day of budget hearings on Thursday, July 10, 2025. Youth job training, a child care assistance fund and money that would keep a housing project for ...