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Child Care Services Association <br />0 <br />March 4, 2005 <br />Dee Gamble, Chair <br />Orange County Day Care Subsidy Task Force <br />Orange County Dept. of Social Services <br />P.O. Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Dear Dee, <br />P.O. Box 901, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 <br />telephone (919) 967-3272, facsimile (919) 967-7683 <br />www.childcareseivices.oig <br />Child Care Services Association supports the Day Care Subsidy Task Force's recommendations <br />to increase access to child care subsidy funds in Orange County. As the child care subsidy <br />administrator for the community-based funds in Orange County, we see every day the need for <br />more resources in the child care subsidy system. Every day families call us who need child care <br />subsidy funds so that they can keep working, return to work after maternity leave or go to school <br />and every day we have to tell at least one family that we are sorry, there is a waiting list fbr help. <br />This is a problem not just for this family and this child, but for our community too. <br />We are particularly pleased with the recommendation to set aside a portion of the money for <br />matching funds which has the potential to bring even more funds to the table.. We appreciate the <br />county's willingness to recognize this as a persistent issue for the welfare and school readiness of <br />children and for the economic development of Orange County. It is important for all of us to <br />work together -the County, community agencies and child care providers - to create strategies <br />and resources that address these very important needs in our community. <br />Sincerely, <br />'l <br />Teresa M. Derrick <br />Vice President for <br />Child Care Resource and Referral Services <br />Y~~ <br />~ Ensuring Affordable, Accessible, High Qimlity Child Cnre <br />UMtm W`uy gmariCmps <br />