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_10-- <br /> V. Increased County Funding of Day Care <br /> Waiting List for Day Care Subsidy--June 1980 <br /> AGES OF CHILDRE14 <br /> Location Infants & Two Year, 3-5 Year School- Totall 4 Certifin <br /> Toddlers Olds Olds Age Spaces <br /> - Northern <br /> orange Co. 11 5 18 - 9 43 20 <br /> Southern <br /> Orange Co. 44 26 49 31 150 500•+ <br /> Unknown 1 1 2 4 <br /> E <br /> Total 56 32 69 40 197 <br /> Our county's present level of funding clearly does not begin to meet <br /> the need for day care subsidy as evidenced by this waiting list. <br /> Presently the number of people on the waiting list exceeds the numb <br /> of children that are presently being served.- In Northern Orange- <br /> County the number of children on the waiting List is twice the <br /> number of available certified spaces. The waiting list for day car <br /> assistance: has never been as ;Long as it is right now and it increas. <br /> daily. <br /> According to Dr. Carol Stack of the Center for the Study of <br /> the Family and the state, "More mothers in North Carolina are worki <br /> outside the home than in any other state." This statement is Even <br /> significant for orange County where there: are an estimated 896 sing- <br /> parent households with children of preschool age. If fifty percent <br /> of the mothers of preschool children in Orange County worked, there <br /> would be a need for over 3200 day care spaces. Fifty percent is a <br /> low estimate now and the nationwide figure for 1990 is projected at <br /> 75%. <br /> The need for quality day care will continue to increase. orange <br /> County has not begun to meet either the demands for certified day <br /> care, particularly with respect to children under three, or the needs <br /> for day care assistance for those families unable to meet the fell. <br /> costs of the service. Waiting lists exist for both services and <br /> ?' subsidy. We must do everything we can to maintain the present <br /> centers we have and to attempt to develop more programs.- In addi- <br /> tion, the need for greater funding from the county and other comma <br /> ty and government resources must also be explored. Day care is no <br /> a diminishing need and we must recognize this in our budget and spa,•.:;:: <br /> considerations. <br />