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Bridging Campus Childcare Gaps: Enhancing Accessibility for All

Explore the challenges and opportunities in campus childcare services, focusing on addressing gaps in infant care, special needs care, and unconventional work schedules. Learn about the current situation, initiatives, and the importance of directing resources where they are needed most.

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Bridging Campus Childcare Gaps: Enhancing Accessibility for All

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  1. The Future of Campus Childcare

  2. National Situation • “There is no shortage of child care in an absolute numerical sense” • (Financing Child Care: Analysis and Recommendations, 1996)

  3. What Are the Gaps Nationally? • “There is consistent evidence of a relatively low supply of care: • For infants, • For school-age children, • For children with disabilities and special health care needs… • For parents with unconventional or shifting work hours. • “These scarcities exacerbate other barriers that low-income families experience in matching type of care used with type of care that best meets their needs.” • (National Academy of Sciences, 1995)

  4. Campus Situation • The Waisman Center offers care for children with special needs • The Child Care Tuition Assistance Program addresses the needs of low-income students (and now classified staff!) • Center-based childcare for infants and toddlers is scarce: • Only about 1/3 of accredited childcare centers provide care for infants younger than about 11 months of age • The UW Hospital helped to establish a new childcare center, Great Beginnings, but there is a long waiting list for infant care there • Parents whose children take care of themselves after school are significantly less satisfied than other faculty members

  5. Campus Situation • There is not much capacity for early morning or evening care: • Needed by physicians, laboratory scientists, students, and others • Only 20-25% of accredited childcare centers start before 7:00 • None provide care after 6:00! • There is little capacity for emergency/backup/drop-in care or sick childcare service: • For when childcare arrangements fall through • (Usual childcare provider is unavailable, or child gets sick) • Needed by employees who might lose jobs: • Also by people whose skills are urgently needed (transplant surgeons)

  6. Goal • Scarce campus resources should be targeted to areas of greatest need!

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