The State of School-Age Care in Arizona. The report describes the need for after-school activities, and lists some of the biggest providers statewide. Cost is not an indicator of quality, experts said. Religious institutions also offer summer day-care camps. Two big ones are run by the Community Church of Joy in Glendale and the North Phoenix Baptist Church in central Phoenix.
Schools are a good place to start looking for child care.
Community colleges also offer summer classes for youngsters. That only fuels early adolescents' whines that they are old enough to stay home alone, she said. Parents often cave into the demands - even though young adolescents are most likely to get into trouble when left to their own devices. Crime rates involving that age group, both as perpetrators and victims, peak during after-school hours. They are searching for things.