If You Can't Find Child Care

  • Stay in touch with your Child Care Resource & Referral Specialist, ask them to keep thinking about what might work for you.
  • Look in a different location; on your way to work, near work, or near a public transportation stop on your route to work, try a different route to work.
  • Talk to friends, neighbors, people at your library, church or community center who may have faced the same problems. How did they solve them?
  • Discuss your child care need with your employer and with co-workers. If many of you are having the same difficulties, your employer needs to know.
  • Make a short term plan for child care, but keep working with your local CCR&R until you find the kind of care you're looking for.
  • Get on the waiting list at every program that would work for you. Sometimes openings come up unexpectedly.