Child Care Webinar Series
As a result of the recent report, Solving Missouri's Child Care Puzzle, register for this webinar series about shared service solutions in child care for Missouri.
Hosted by by New Growth Women’s Business Center and University of Missouri Extension. Recordings available to those who register.
Dec 2 - The Business of Child Care- To increase the number and quality of child care options, we must understand what it takes to operate a child care business. This webinar provides an up-close look at the daily reality of the mostly small and home-based businesses that make up the unique and highly regulated child care sector.Presenters will highlight the types of business support that childhood education providers need to survive and thrive.
Dec 9 - Central Office Shared Services - Across the country, child care agencies and organizations are joining forces to build a shared services approach to increasing the number and quality of child care providers. Common in business, shared services amount to central office support that reduces administrative burden and frees up time and money.
Learn from national leaders what a shared services alliance is and what they can do to address the need for more stable, sustainable, and high-quality child care options.
Dec 16 - Missouri Assets and Opportunities - Missouri is struggling with a chronic crisis in child care.Many more providers went out of business in 2024. This webinar will review the many assets and opportunities the state has in place that it could further align and advance to benefit child care providers with the central office support of shared services.
About the Child Care Report
A new business-oriented approach to addressing Missouri’s chronic child care crisis is the focus of a report just published by west central Missouri’s New Growth Women’s Business Center with University of Missouri Extension. The report’s findings contribute to local and state efforts to address the significant economic, community, and family challenges that now exist for Missouri with too few early child care and education options.
The report, Solving Missouri’s Child Care Puzzle, advocates for a shared services approach to helping the state’s mostly small and home-based child care businesses survive and thrive in a highly regulated and under-resourced industry. Shared services, or central office support to small and independent businesses, is the missing piece in the state’s multi-faceted work to stabilize and increase the number of early child care and education providers in Missouri.
Economic imperative.
Solving Missouri’s Child Care Puzzle offers insights and examples from a growing national shared services movement in early child care and education. It also provides the context of Missouri initiatives and investments that local and state leaders could align and advance for development of shared service support to small and home-based child care providers.
Shared services is a critical approach for local and state leaders to consider as families struggle to find and access child care.
Read more at: newgrowthmo.org/post/mo-child-care
Register for the webinar series