“Southeast as a region is considered a child care desert — that means we are meeting less than half of the need,” says Blue Shibler of the Southeast Alaska Association for the Education of Young Children. “There are communities that have no child care.”
“Southeast Alaska as a region is considered a child care desert, that means we are meeting less than half of the need,” Shibler said. “There are communities that have no child care, and there are communities that have not enough child care.”
Shibler led an advocacy workshop that offered attendees a chance to speak with legislators. Haines child care provider Kim Larson was part of that group. She is limited to providing care for eight children total, and only three of them can be under 30 months old. She says care for that age range is in high demand.
“We are in need for more providers zero to thirty months,” Larson said. “I have a waiting list for five infants right now, and you know I can only take three at a time.”“One of the things we talked about was how they support college-age kids, you know with the Pell Grants and stuff, and then of course they support the K through twelve kids, through the school, and then now they are starting to support pre K,” she said.
Alaska legislators are working on two bills that address the issue. Rep. Andi Story, D-Juneau, was among the lawmakers who met with the group. “We are trying to expand the number of families who can afford child care by making the subsidies more inclusive,” she said.
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