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Clear Creek parents look at solutions to the county’s child-care desert
BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Clear Creek parents who need child care for their infants and toddlers will have to rely on themselves until other options become available, parents and o cials at a meeting on the county’s child-care needs determined.
Money and training are available if parents want to start in-home child care, and Expanding Early Child Care and Learning in Clear Creek County, a nonpro t looking to help ease the child-care desert in the county, plans to host a meeting in late July to discuss steps to start such businesses.
Two dozen parents and ocials from government, nonpro ts and schools attended a town hall meeting on June 29 hosted by the nonpro t to discuss the di culties nding child care for their infant and toddler children.
“We are trying to get a conversation with all stakeholders to gure out what solutions we have available,” Jessica Tribbett, who organized the meeting, told attendees. She reminded parents throughout the county to ll out a child care needs survey to give the organization a better idea of parents’ needs at https://clearcreekeecl.wixsite.com/ childcare-townhall.
