Grants assist in growing child care options
Corinne Kuntz, owner of The Birds Nest Early Learning Village, looks for signs of caterpillars with a group of preschoolers on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Wesson explores inside a playground tunnel outside the nursery school at The Birds Nest Early Learning Village in Kalispell on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Hawna feeds on a bottle in a patch of sunlight inside the nursery school at The Birds Nest Early Learning Village in Kalispell on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Noah plays with a set of building blocks inside the preschool at The Birds Nest Early Learning Village on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
An infant plays on a slide outside the nursery school at The Birds Nest Early Learning Village in Kalispell on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Natalia crawls across a balance beam outside the preschool at The Birds Nest Early Learning Village in Kalispell on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Preschool-aged girls make their way across a balance beam outside The Birds Nest Early Learning Village in Kalispell on Friday, Aug. 26. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Finding child care in the Flathead Valley can be stressful for parents as a lack of spaces brings long wait lists. At the same time, business leaders face their own challenges as employees miss work because of gaps in the system and are often unable to recruit untapped workers who can’t secure child care. ...
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