Tag: childcare
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Colorado Springs’ earliest nonprofits and charities, children the first focus
Colorado Springs has always had an impressively strong history of philanthropy. Today that has grown to almost 5,000 nonprofits in the metro area, almost 1,000 in the city itself. It all began, along with the city, in the 1800s and here are some of the city’s first nonprofits and charities: 1897: Early Connections Learning Centers…
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Proposal would make child care centers easier to open across Colorado Springs
An ordinance that would make it easier for child and adult day care centers to open in neighborhoods and as part of businesses received preliminary approval Tuesday from the Colorado Springs City Council. The proposal, which the council must pass a second time before it takes effect, would allow both home-based centers and commercial child…
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado Springs has a serious lack of childcare problem
Colorado Springs is a childcare desert. Almost 47,000 children under the age of five live in our county, but only 18,400 licensed childcare spots are available. As a result, according to a UCCS study, 26% of parents who say they would otherwise work, stay home due to childcare challenges. The strength of our region’s workforce…