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Regional Child Care Exchange pitched to Overland Park committee as public–private funding approach
Summary
A MARC official described the 'Community Child Care Exchange', a model to pool employer, philanthropic, public and family funds to subsidize child care slots, support staff wages and improve access regionally.
A presenter from the Mid-America Regional Council told the committee about an ongoing regional planning effort to create a Community Child Care Exchange that would pool multiple funding sources to make early care and education more affordable and stabilize the provider market.
"Right now, child care is funded mostly by parents. In Johnson County, I think it's, like, 97 of all dollars that go into early care and education is parent funds," Dr. Toni Stervan, director of the early learning department at MARC, told the committee. The exchange concept would combine family payments…
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