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• <br /> 101 - <br /> • <br /> Care' Setting Requested Sept 1984 - June 1985 . <br /> No strong choice 291 40% <br /> In-home care 189 25% <br /> Family day care 130 177. - <br /> Day Care Center 94 137. <br /> • <br /> • Nursery school 25 3% . <br /> Other 14 2% <br /> • <br /> RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT <br /> In addition, the agency worked to identify and develop additional <br /> resources to meet the needs expressed by the families served. The <br /> growth in the available resources for child care is shown in the <br /> following table. <br /> • Resources for Child Care in Orange County <br /> • <br /> • <br /> July 1984 May 1985 <br /> Day Care Centers 32 35 . <br /> Family Day Care Homes 42 74 <br /> In-home caregivers file 0 32 <br /> Due to staffing, Child Care Networks was able to provide only <br /> limited technical assistance to child care providers. The area of <br /> home-based care, both for family day care homes and in-home <br /> caregivers, was chosen as the one on which to concentrate. Help <br /> was provided on how to start a family day care business in the <br /> home to new caregivers. Unregistered -day care homes were helped <br /> to register with the state. Current caregivers were invited to <br /> become part of the informal support meetings held in both Carrboro <br /> and Hillsborough. A file was established for persons willing to <br /> do care in the child's home, both full and part-time. A <br /> substitute pool of workers for day care centers was established <br /> for the summer of 1985. <br /> S. • <br /> • <br /> SUBSIDY FOR CHILD CARE <br /> • <br /> Through a grant from the Town of Chapel Hill , subsidy for child <br /> care was made available to 6 children from low-income Chapel Hill <br /> families frOm January - June. Funds were secured to expand the <br /> program to Carrboro residents for the coming year. <br /> • <br />