Child Care Support Program

The Trust’s Child Care Support Program helps maintain and create new child care spaces in the Basin and supports Early Childhood Educator recruitment and retention.

Since 2017, the Trust’s Child Care Support Program helped:

  • create 1,443 new child care spaces
  • provide $6.8 million in funding for 450 projects to improve 3,600 child care spaces
  • certify and train more than 300 Early Childhood Educators
  • enhance the wages of an annual average of 340 Early Childhood Educators since 2022
  • support five Basin-wide professional development conferences for Early Childhood Educators.

Child Care Grants to Create New Spaces

Early Childhood Educator Wage Subsidy Program

Early Childhood Educator Training Wage Program

Other Support for Early Childhood Educators