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The funding expedite opening a child care center by purchasing furnishing, supplies, and the playground. All items are required for licensing. They plan to serve 88 children and have plans to expand in the future.
Austin in partnership with Hormel Foods recognizes child care as necessary to increase the workforce. Hormel has made a significant contribution the project. The project will provide training for 20 staff to ramp up to full enrollment. It will support obtaining NAEYC and a 4-star Parent Aware rating. In addition, equipment to enhance operations will be purchased.
They are funding a capacity building project to be able to open empty classrooms. They will hire temporary staff to cover classrooms. They will pay for 3 Spanish speaking professionals to complete the 9-month hybrid Montessori Lead Guide training. When staff are trained, they will be able to provide care for 30 children in Spanish.
This project is a collaboration between the city and Alexandria Technical College. Carpentry students will build a townhome on land donated by the college to open 2 special license family child cares. The college will offer early education students an opportunity to have on the job training at the child care when opened.
The city is partnering with a non-profit Kids Rock! To establish a new child care center. The grant will support startup expenses of for supplies and equipment needed for licensing. The center will open by serving 72 children and expand to 186 children later.
The project will renovate a former church rectory into a child care center in partnership with Olu's Beginnings and Youth Rise in North Minneapolis. This will add 77 child care slots.
CLUES is in St. Paul. They are doing something unique based on the BUILD work they have done. They will be supporting Latina child care providers who are doing Family, Friend, and Neighbor care to become licensed family child care. Then the providers can serve more children and be culturally responsive. They will be providing training, bilingual support, assistance in navigating licensing, and financial and rental assistance to allow Latina providers to become licensed and launch their own business.
The initiative will build collaboration between local business, community housing, and child care providers. They will support 3 new Family child care providers and support existing programs to recruit, hire and train staff. It will expand shared service models to create a Substitute Provider pool and Subsidized Slot Program to reduce closures due to staffing shortages.
Funding will expand current preschool and toddler care. Renovation will be done to add an infant room. Funding will be used to meet licensing requirements for the expansion.
The project will create four (4) special license family child provider spaces for 48 children. An additional space and location for a child care center will be created 58 slots and 20 drop-in slots.
Four Special License child care units will be created in Atwater at Generations Daycare and Senior Living Space for 48 children. A nature-based preschool will be opened in Spicer for 20 children.
They received $1,000,000 gift from the Saint Paul Area Synod to expand their Families Together Therapeutic Preschool in the East Side of St. Paul. The preschool operates a two-generation, relationship-based approach with therapeutic interventions integrated into the classroom. They will be expanding by 49 slots. Funds will support new teacher training, assessment tools, equipment and supplies needed for licensing.
Northland plans to support 11 shovel ready projects across their region. They require all projects to earn or maintain their Parent Aware rating along with business training. They work in collaboration with other regional agencies to fund startup, expand, and/or retain a licensed family child care or center-based program. The project plans to add 390 child care slots.
Northwest plans to add 331 slots and retain 91 slots to their region in at least fifteen (15) communities. They will do this by providing resources to local/community projects already in development and providing capital funds for new and existing child care. They plan to support initial expenses related to licensing across the region.
The project will reconfigure existing facility space to create an additional to serve infants and toddlers. Funding will support construction, equipment and learning materials. They will also add another fenced outdoor play area for infants and toddlers.
PICA is using the funds to expand care at 2 sites, McKnight in South Minneapolis, and Donald Fraser in North Minneapolis. They are focusing on expanding infant toddler by adding 7 classrooms for 16 infants and 40 toddlers. Infant/Toddler care is a huge need across the state.
Pine County will be adding 98 slots in three communities: Hinckley, Finlayson, and Pine City. It is a collaboration between Pine County, Pine County Technical College, the Hinckley-Finlayson school district, Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures (the development entity of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), and NE Minnesota Child Care Aware. They will support the renovation of a vacant medical clinic to be turned into a childcare that will also be used as a learning lab for Pine Tech which will add 32 slots. The second project is the renovation of empty retail space in Hinckley with entrepreneurial support from Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures to create 42 slots. The third project will use space at the Finlayson Elementary School to partner with a child care provider to add 24 slots.
They have identified and will support five (5) shovel ready projects in their region by awarding sub grants in the Southwest region of Minnesota. This will create 134 new slots. They will fund supplies needed for licensing, renovation of spaces, training for licensing requirements, create a nature-based Montessori preschool, and develop two Special License Family Child Cares who are Spanish speaking.
The center has a capacity of 77, but currently only enrolls 24 due to workforce challenges. The funding will subsidize training and provide incentives to develop the needed workers to be at capacity. They are partnering with the City of Fosston and Empower to Educate.
St. David's is using the funding to expand into St. Cloud working with CentraCare. They have a site in Plymouth currently. They also plan to expand into Minneapolis, but not with this funding. St. David's is one of the few sites that provides care to special needs children and children with behavioral issues. They offer mental health, OT and PT intervention at their current site and plan to do the same in St. Cloud.
Warroad created a community 501(c)3 to address the child care shortage. Warroad Senior Living donated land adjacent to their facility. The project will support the construction of the facility which will facilitate interaction between seniors and children. It will increase the number of slots by 114. Funds will also purchase supplies needed for equipment and supplies needed for licensing.
