Co-Chairs: Gloria Brooks (DI Board President) & Lisa Bolen (NEMSCA Executive Director)
Goals (problem that we are trying to solve): Provide solutions to increase access to childcare for families and businesses in Iosco, Arenac, Alcona and Ogemaw Counties. Submit findings and recommendations to the community and funding source by June 30, 2024.
OVERVIEW:
Membership: By invitation only due to grant requirements.
Gloria Brooks, Convener/Co-Chair - President of DI Board of Directors
Lisa Bolen, Coalition Co-Chair/Needs Assessment - CEO, NEMCSA
Chris Martin, DI Executive Director - Project Manager
Fred Lewis, Supervisor Plainfield Township
Patrick Ready, Zoning Administrator, Plainfield Township
Michael Timreck, Zoning Administrator, Baldwin Township
Jamie Carruthers-Soboleski, Controller/Finance Director, Iosco County
Krystal Wolanin, Hale Schools PTA
Janet Bovee, In-home Child Care Provider
Marianne Johns, Clerk, City of Whittemore
Tammy Tyler, Great Start Collaborative Parent
Christina Tappan, Iosco GSC/GSQ NE Resource Center -
Penny Payea, Dir. of Business Services & Economic Dev., MIWorks! Region 7B - RCCIP Lead
LeeAnne Comer, Certified Business Solutions Professional, MIWorks! Region 7B - RCCIP Lead
Clara Sherman, Certified Business Solutions
Ashley Udell, Business & Youth Solutions Manager MIWorks! Northeast Consortium
Jeffrey Yorke, Superintendent, Hale Area Schools
Rich Van Tol, Supervisor, School-Home-Community Partnerships/Early Childhood Education, GSD, Bay-Arenac ISD, Supervisor, School-Home-Community Partnerships/Early Childhood Ed., GSD, Bay-Arenac ISD
The Regional Child Care Planning Grant is supported by funding provided from the Michigan Department of Education utilizing American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
On February 29, the Quad County Childcare Coalition held a CEO Roundtable to present childcare solutions from their recently released Childcare Innovation Grant Report (see below).
A number of employers and organizations brainstormed creative ideas and discussed ways to work together in the future.
SURVEY LINK
Here is a link to a survey for your company to complete to tell us how many potential employees might be interested in one or more of the identified childcare solutions and evaluate the event.
Please complete the survey by Friday, March 22, 2024: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RBTYQRR
Company/Organization
Bay-Arenac ISD
Creative Pathways Counseling PLLC
Employment Services, Inc.
Hale Area Schools
Huron Community Bank
Iosco County
Kalitta Air
Michigan Works! Region 7B
Mid-Michigan Grant Writers
Miller & Associates
Minth
MSU Extension
NEMCOG
NEMCSA
Oscoda Area Schools
PKL Cares
Pulse @ the W.E. Upjohn Institute
Star Cutter/Tawas Tool
Tawas Area Chamber of Commerce
Tawas Bay Insurance Agency
Tri-County Agency Insurance
Trillium Staffing
Walmart
March 10, 2023
For Immediate Release:
IOSCO COUNTY, MICH. –– The Early Childhood Investment Corporation’s (ECIC) – Child Care Innovation Fund has awarded a Regional Child Care Planning Grant to Develop Iosco (DI) in the amount of $150,000. The grant enables DI to facilitate a newly formed four-county Regional Child Care Planning Coalition which includes Alcona, Arenac, Iosco and Ogemaw Counties. This announcement follows Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s statewide announcement earlier today.
“Develop Iosco believes that a diverse coalition of individuals will create a stronger solution to the child care dilemma in our four-county area,” stated Gloria Brooks, President of DI’s Board of Directors. “We are excited to have been selected to bring these grant dollars to the communities and develop solutions for working families”. This is the first time DI has successfully applied and received state grant dollars of this size of a grant award.
The Coalition includes parent and grandparent primary caregivers and child care provider representatives from across the County. Other coalition members also include NEMSCA, Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District, Hale Area Schools, Plainfield and Oscoda Townships, MIWorks! Region 7B offices from Iosco, Arenac, Ogemaw and Alcona, and Iosco County government.
The 18-month grant period will focus on better understanding the needs of families with children age 12 and younger and learn new ways to expand access to child care including 2nd and 3rdshift and weekend care availability. The Regional Child Care Planning project is supported by funding provided from the Michigan Department of Education within the Caring for MI Future initiative, utilizing American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Develop Iosco will facilitate the Coalition meetings and coordinate data collection leading to a roadmap for the implementation of the plan by June 30, 2024. Community meetings will be held to keep working families, employers and others informed of the project’s progress and to provide feedback on potential solutions.
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