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)
August 26, 2022
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Businesses addressing local child care shortage
Local businesses and child care centers are looking to partner up and offer child care benefits in an effort to attract and retain employees, with a lack of early childhood education and preschool options keeping would-be working parents at home to take care of young children.
Grants assist in growing child care options
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.