Support non-traditional child care options
Traditional child care options are often unaffordable for parents living below the NPPS, making it difficult for them to pursue employment or educational opportunities.
Use your networks and resources to fill the gap relative to the needs and local options available for families living below the NPPS. It is often non-traditional approaches such as combined child care-work spaces or flexible rules for working parents that allow families to overcome the prohibitive costs of child care.
To get started:
Survey the child care options in your community
Research practices such as the two below - and others across the country - that approach child care in a non-traditional manner.
Identify how you can support the sustenance or creation of more affordable approaches
Support research into the effectiveness of non-traditional options.
Best Practices/ Innovative Programs
The Arizona Department of Health Services allows employees to bring their infants to work and stay in their cubicles.
Detroit Parent Collective (DPC) is a membership organization that offers a co-working space with WiFi for parents without office space and onsite childcare and cooperative preschool for children 30 to 72 months. Adults can work with children at their desks or put them in the classroom and parents rotate to support a designated teacher.
