Evaluate Your Employees' Child Care Needs
In order to provide meaningful support to your workforce, it's crucial to assess the unique challenges of your employees. Calculate the impact on your business or view a sample employee needs survey.
Your Guide to Supporting Families in the Workforce
Investments in Caring PA is Pennsylvania's resource for employers to assist their employees in finding access to quality child care. This toolkit provides information and resources to identify new or expanded ways to strengthen your workforce, the early childhood education system, and your business's bottom line.
Smart Businesses Start Here
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Implement a Strategy
Develop an actionable strategy from the Business Toolkit that aligns with your business goals and employee needs, and put it into practice. Get additional assistance from our business consulting partners.
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Collaborate for Greater Impact
Showcase your commitment to a stronger workforce and community; join advocacy efforts and coalitions dedicated to making a meaningful difference in the states child care landscape.
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Explore Available Resources
Navigate our comprehensive Business Toolkit to find solutions tailored to the needs of your working families. From understanding available tax credits to offering back-up or on-site care, discover practical opportunities to help your support your workforce.
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Share Resources with Your Team
Provide your HR and leadership teams with the Working Family Toolkit to easily share with employees. This toolkit can be integrated into on-boarding or employee communications, giving families quick access to essential child care resources and support.
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Explore The Business ToolKit
Get Started
Businesses and families are impacted by a lack of access to affordable, quality child care. Employers who better understand the child care needs of their workforce can respond with a variety of effective solutions.
- Calculate the Impact on Your Business
- Determine Employee Needs: Sample Survey
- Share the Working Family Toolkit with Employees
HR Benefits & Policies Guide
Review best practices and HR benefits designed to support working families.
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Tax
Credits
Explore business tax credits to offset the cost of internal and community-based child care supports.
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Offering Child Care Guide
Learn about creative ways for employers to help working families be strong employees while also supporting a quality child care system.
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Support
Guide
Invest in technical assistance to guide business strategies and advocate to advance the child care system.
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Working Family Toolkit
Sharing the working family toolkit with employees is an easy way for employers to provide resources and information on child care access, affordability, and quality.
Access Employee Toolkit
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State of ECE in PA: August 2023
This report looks deeper at Pennsylvania's child care and pre-k system complexities and recommends the improvements necessary to ensure the system functions equitably and increases access and affordability for all families in the commonwealth.
Why Does Child Care Cost So Much Yet Providers Make So Little?
The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley and Child Care Aware® of America teamed up to create a new video that explains why parents cannot afford to pay and educators cannot afford to stay and proposes a solution for a better way to support children, their families, and early educators.
The Impact of Childcare on Business and the Workforce (2021)
The majority of businesses in Pennsylvania report needing better access to resources to better support their working families and child care.
Small Business Strategies
Small businesses can make a big difference simply by understanding what resources exist for their working families with young children and making that information readily available.
Economic Impact Calculator
Calculate how insufficient child care impacts your company's bottom line.
The Growing Annual Cost of Pennsylvania's Child Care Crisis (2023)
Impact on families, businesses, and taxpayers has more than doubled since 2018.
Simple Next Steps
- Share the Employer Toolkit with your HR and leadership teams.
- Share the Working Family Toolkit with your employees.
- Choose one strategy from the toolkit that you can easily implement as a first step.
The work of the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission is possible through generous contributions from:
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