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Families are struggling to find child care because providers are struggling to find employees. The Fast Track initiative aims to solve those problems by increase child care worker training and pay.
While programs like Mixed Delivery routinely receive praise for the care and education they offer children, funding still lags far behind demand.
Parents in the Richmond area are experiencing waitlists for child care that are several months, and even years, long. Plus skyrocketing prices. “Finding child care has been the most stressful part about having a baby,” one parent said.
Children’s Harbor, a child care center with five locations across Hampton Roads, provides services to around 375 children year-round. But when the coronavirus pandemic struck, the center closed classrooms and shortened operating hours as employees and children stayed home. As the pandemic faded, Children’s Harbor — which dipped to around 45 teachers at the height of the pandemic — still ...