Accelerator

Improving Access to Child Care

Child care and early childhood education are foundations for early development, academic achievement, and a lifetime of benefits supporting our youngest learners into adulthood. Yet today, many families in Kansas struggle to access affordable, quality child care where they live and work. We are distributing federal, one-time pandemic relief funding to support grantees across the state as they build and expand physical spaces, and for start-up operations.

Because we know a single solution won’t fix what we have come to know as the ‘child care crisis’ we look to communities for innovative ideas and custom solutions. Capital funding is a significant step forward in this work and can be used as a catalyst for fundamentally changing the way Kansans meet their child care needs.