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STEP tells commissioners ARPA-funded substitute aid pool has kept childcare programs open; transportation garage permit pending
Summary
Rochelle Abbott, president and CEO of STEP, told Lycoming County commissioners at their meeting that a substitute-aid pool funded by Lycoming County ARPA dollars has helped keep local child-care classrooms open and allowed parents to remain in the workforce.
Rochelle Abbott, president and CEO of STEP, told Lycoming County commissioners at their meeting that a substitute-aid pool funded by Lycoming County ARPA dollars has helped keep local child-care classrooms open and allowed parents to remain in the workforce.
Abbott said the substitute program, which STEP operates as the county’s Early Learning Resource Center partner, became operational in October and uses a mobile scheduling tool called Connect Teams. “Since October when this was operationalized, we've had 209 shifts posted, and 79 of them were filled,” Abbott said, adding that if those shifts are multiplied by about 20 children per class it represents a significant amount of child care that otherwise might have closed.
The program hires…
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