It’s Time to Care About Care
Welcome to Pennsylvania's toolkit for businesses, industries, and communities of all sizes to support working families. Investments in Caring PA is Pennsylvania's resource for employers to assist their employees in finding access to quality care. This toolkit provides information and resources to identify new or expanded ways to strengthen your workforce and your bottom line.
Investments in Caring PA is an initiative of the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission.
Why Do Employers Care About Care?
How Can Employers Care About Care?
Small business owners often experience how a lack of access to affordable, quality child care leads to increased absenteeism and decreased productivity. While some child care assistance options are cost and time-prohibitive, there are often overlooked options that can help mitigate challenges to better support working families.
Our Approach
It’s time to care about care. Through the Investments in Caring initiative, we provide leadership, inspiration, expertise, and powerful data to engage employers, foster relationships, and encourage partnerships within the private sector and between the public and private sectors. We act as a hub for employers to access resources, tools, and technical assistance to increase private and public support, partnerships, and strategies that allow working parents to access affordable, quality child care. We encourage change by convening and building a unified voice of stakeholders for public and private investments by recognizing employers that champion action to improve access to quality child care.
Learn More About the Investments in Caring PA InitiativeQuality Child Care is Quality Early Learning
“Researchers note that investing in the care infrastructure after the Great Recession of 2008-09 would have yielded twice as many jobs as our investments in traditional physical infrastructure alone. It’s time to recognize the changing nature and meaning of infrastructure… Today, the concept remains agile enough to help restore a fragmented economy and, with child care as a foundation, bring people back to work.”
– Thomas P. Foley and Stephanie Nycum Doliveira, co-chairs of the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission. Foley is President of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania and Doliveira is Vice President for Human Resources with Sheetz.
Thomas P. Foley | President, AICUP Co-chair, PA ELIC
Stephanie Doliveira | Vice President, Human Resources, Sheetz Co-chair, PA ELIC
Contact
Whether you define success for Pennsylvania as a stronger economy, reduced crime, successful students, or thriving communities, high-quality early childhood education is the key. Let us know your questions or how you’d like to get involved.
Andrea Heberlein
Executive Director
andrea@paearlylearning.com
C.717.327.0107
Sara Lauver
Associate Director
sara@paearlylearning.com
C.570.847.5903
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Harrisburg, PA 17101