Child Care Resource & Referral 

As families have changed, so has the workforce.  Today more than half of the nation's workers are either single parents or members of a dual income family with young children.  For most of these workers, having food, affordable child care is essential.  Losing time from the job because of poor care arrangement is hard on a family and costly for an employer.  Locating quality care can be a challenge for today's busy families, and resource and referrals are designed to help.

Employers and Resource & Referral: A Winning Partnership

Employer contracts with resource & referral agencies provide valuable services for their employees in their communities.  Employees can receive enhanced child care referrals to licensed caregivers, individual consultations on parenting, seminars on a wide variety to work/life issues and referrals to other family support services.  Partnering with your state or local child care resource and referral program can ease the stress of finding quality child care.

Benefits:

• With low start-up and maintenance costs, works well for any size company
• An excellent recruitment and retention tool
• Maximizes use of existing community resources and may lead to expansion of quality dependent care supply
• Reduces absenteeism costs associated with the search for dependent care

Considerations:

• Requires ongoing promotion to employees
• Resource & referral services do not make child care more affordable and are not a guarantee of quality

For more information on Enhanced Services through the
Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network
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