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10 <br />STATUS OF ORANGE COUNTY Child Care <br />Day care availability is an important issue to the high percentage of <br />working poor in the county. There is no apparent shortage in child care it <br />the county now. There are about 200 families on Aid to Families with <br />Dependent Children (AFDC), many of whom will be involved in Welfare Reform <br />in 1990, and with many of the working poor who could be eligible for child <br />services under welfare reforms, an estimated 1000 new day care slots could <br />be needed in the next year. Also state subsidies, which include only minor <br />contributions from the county and municipalities, are being cut in Orange <br />County. State government has determined that other counties are not gettii <br />their fair share and funds formerly designated for Orange County are being <br />disbursed elsewhere in the state. Currently, churches have made little <br />progress in developing additional child care, providing only five percent c <br />the county's child care services, businesses have had no involvement. <br />(Dobelstein 1989) <br />(print logo) PERCEIVED.NEEDS FOR CHANGE /IMPROVEMENT <br />* Establish a comprehensive child care plan /network <br />-- Coordinate agencies and services <br />-- Coordinate transportation needs <br />- -Serve as a liaison with employers /government /churches and volunteer <br />-- improve quality of child care <br />- Provide better pay and benefits for child care providers <br />- Attract better qualified child care providers <br />Develop child care for second shift workers <br />- -Could be supported by a child care foundation <br />* Need for area churches to provide facilities, funds, and human resources <br />for early childhood and extended -day (after school) services <br />- -Need for inter - denominational coordination of services, funds and <br />human resources <br />- Churches currently provide only five percent of the County's <br />child care services <br />* Need for UNC -CH to provide more leadership and resources in development <br />child care <br />• Need for employers to subsidize child care <br />• Establish preschool and child care centers in schools <br />• Need for matching federal /state /local funds for child care for indivic <br />in job training programs and those affected by Welfare reform <br />• Need for more tax dollars for child care development <br />-- Establish service district taxes <br />-Need for more non - categorized funds <br />- -Need for more scholarship and subsidy funding for child care and <br />summer programs <br />- -Need more funds for Family Day Care Homes subsidies <br />-Need for more Head Start funding revise eligibility requirements <br />6. * Publicize 1990 tax reduction for child care for state employees <br />7 <br />14 <br />of <br />Lls <br />