DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR PRE-K TEACHER? DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU SANG THE ABC’S? WHAT ABOUT WHEN YOU FIRST BEGAN WRITING YOUR NAME? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T EVEN HAVE THESE EXPERIENCES?! WHERE WOULD YOU BE RIGHT NOW!?
Hi! My name is Krystal Rivera and I am the owner of A Child's Journey Daycare Program! I have a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education and Special Education. I have been a teacher for 6 years and one thing I know is children and teaching!
Children around the nation are missing these foundational skills and experiences because of the closure of many daycares. Many families have been left without childcare due to limited availability in centers and shortages of staff. A Child’s Journey will not to expand in order to reach these families and provide them with high quality care. We are not just speaking about opening daycares around the nation but specifically opening daycares in areas that NYS has labeled as “desert areas”. NYS has provided a standard definition of a child care desert which involves not having enough licensed/registered child day care slots to adequately serve the number of children in a geographic area.
NYS IS EVEN LAUNCHING A Invest in New York - Child Care Deserts Grant in April, where they have identified $100M to build and expand child care capacity in areas with the least supply utilizing funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Although this grant is amazing, it does not solve the problem as there are desert areas around the nation not only in New York!
A Child’s Journey will like a partner to assist with our expansion project and help us fund our first daycare center to eliminate child care deserts! We are asking for a minimum of $250,000 to begin working on our daycare center where children in desert areas will have the opportunity to receive high quality child care. We will be increasing employment for teachers, teacher assistants, janitors, cooks, drivers, and most importantly providing care for families so they can return back to work worry free!
We understand this is a huge problem in the nation and 1 in 4 child care providers will remain closed after the pandemic. We understand 31.7% of U.S. children under the age of five can not access a child care slot. According to a 2020 study that analyzed 25 states across the nation, 8.4 million children under the age of five needed child care. However, there is a way to recover and that is by investing in A Child's Journey Daycare Program Inc. One daycare will not solve a problem affecting 8.4 million children, HOWEVER, one daycare at a time with our motivation and drive to expand consistently every year in neighborhoods WILL!
INVEST IN A DREAM! INVEST IN A GOAL! INVEST IN YOUNG CHILDREN , FAMILIES, AND INDIVIDUALS IN NEED OF A CHILD'S JOURNEY DAYCARE PROGRAM INC. IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR THEM!
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