Check with your employer's personnel office or human resources department to see what your employer may offer. Both small and large employers may provide these benefits. To learn more about the kinds of assistance employers can offer, CCAC has materials available free of charge or at a nominal fee. There are various sources of federal and state subsidies to help parents pay part of the cost of child care. You must file a tax return in order to get the credit.
Parents often report that the child care choices available are inadequate.
Twenty-six percent of all parents would choose another form of child care if it were available to them, according to the National Child Care Survey of 1990. Parents, therefore, have a special role to play in ensuring that early care and education become a high priority on the national agenda. You can make your voice heard in the emerging national debates over policies that will strengthen families and enable children to grow and thrive. Talk to your employer about instituting family-friendly workplace benefits like flexible schedules, job sharing, paid family leave. Write or visit your mayor, governor and members of Congress.