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STATUS <br />Ongoing <br />ongoing <br />CHILD CARE <br />PERCEIVED NEEDS FOR CHANGE /IMPROVEMENT <br />1.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 <br />and volunteers <br />- Improve quality of child care <br />- Provide better pay and benefits for child care <br />providers <br />- Attract better qualified child care providers <br />- Develop child care for a second shift worker <br />-Could be supported by a child care foundation <br />Child Care Networks, a child care resource and referral <br />agency, collects and updates information about all child <br />care services in orange and Chatham counties. <br />Department of social services, United Way and other child <br />care agencies have formed a strategic planning group to <br />address subsidized child care. <br />11 <br />2.Need for area churches to provide facilities, funds, and <br />human resources for early childhood and extended -day (after <br />school services) : <br />-Need for interdenominational coordination of services, <br />funds and human resources <br />- Churches currently provide only five percent of the <br />County's child care services <br />3.Need for UNC -CH to provide more leadership and resources in <br />development of child care. <br />Ongoing The office of the Child Care Coordinator at UNC -CH, <br />established in the fall of 1988,provides services to UNC <br />student and employee parents, including research /advocacy <br />for improved child /family services, networking with other <br />community agencies to insure that services are provided for <br />parents associated with the University, and production of a <br />Child sitter Directory. <br />4.Need for employers to subsidize child care. <br />