Rural Project Examples: Child care
Other Project Examples
Wisconsin Early Education Shared Service Network
Updated/reviewed October 2022
Updated/reviewed October 2022
- Need: Throughout the state of Wisconsin, childcare services are closing rapidly, with staffing and finance issues as the main causes.
- Intervention: In Wisconsin's Monroe and Vernon Counties, a collaborative that focuses on addressing key childcare access issues has come up with a creative solution. The Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network allows childcare providers to pool staff, resources, and services while receiving support for business and educational operations.
- Results: As of September 2022, 25 child care programs in Monroe and Vernon Counties have joined WEESSN and more are considering. Joining has allowed child care providers to focus their time, finances, and energy on the children they serve.
Energy Capital Cooperative Child Care (ECCCC)
Updated/reviewed July 2022
Updated/reviewed July 2022
- Need: To bring needed child care to rural Mercer County, North Dakota.
- Intervention: A nonprofit cooperative provides part-time and full-time child care.
- Results: ECCCC had 86 children at the height of its enrollment history.
Families Plus Comprehensive Health and Mentoring for Underserved YouthAdded March 2019
- Need: Pediatric behavioral health services in Delta County, Colorado.
- Intervention: Multi-organizational and community-wide effort to increase healthcare access for underserved children and to integrate behavioral health care into the area's primary care clinics.
- Results: Sustainable increases in access to pediatric behavioral health services.