Current Research
The Families and Work Institute has sponsored a project called "When Work Works."  The project "is a nationwide initiative to highlight the importance of workforce effectiveness and flexibility as a strategy to enhance business’ competitive advantage in the global economy and yield positive business results."
To view the full report, visit http://familiesandwork.org/3w/research/downloads/status.pdf

Bottom-Line Benefits
Child care is central to the economic well-being of families, communities, and businesses.  According to recent surveys, business with child care programs report workplace improvements and bottom-line savings in the following areas:

• Boosting recruitment
• Damping turnover
• Lowering absenteeism
• Increasing productivity
• Strengthening the business' image

For more information about how a child care program can provide these benefits to your business, visit http://nccic.org/ccpartnerships/toolkit/pdf/section1.pdf.

Maine's Economic Impact of the Child Care Industry Report
Child care is an income-generating, job-creating industry that is a critical component of Maine’s economic vitality. Licensed child care facilities generate $180.6 million annually in gross receipts and employ 8,824 Maine residents. The child care industry helps to sustain and stimulate other industries by purchasing goods and services from other industry sectors, and through its employees’ wages which are spent throughout the economy. Through these indirect and induced effects, licensed child care supports an additional $72.2 million annually in gross receipts and 3,134 jobs, representing a total annual contribution to the economy of $253 million and nearly 12,000 jobs.

Like transportation, education, and public works, child care is a necessary and vital part of the economic infrastructure. The child care industry supports the economy by enabling increasing numbers of parents to enter and remain in the workforce. Working parents in Maine who rely on licensed child care earn $854 million annually. Reliable child care also improves workforce productivity and reduces employee absenteeism, boosting the overall output of Maine’s workforce. Moreover, child care provides an early, yet critical, investment in the development of Maine’s future workforce.

This Economic Impact of the Child Care Industry report measures the extent of the child care industry’s integration with Maine’s economy and demonstrates how policies and investments to strengthen and expand the child care infrastructure will support the growth of the economy as a whole.

To view the Executive Summary of the report, click on the link below:
http://www.propeople.org/ExecSum2a.pdf

Posting Services
Looking for and learning about quality, affordable child care or other parenting issues doesn't have to be an overwhelming task.  The staff at Child Care Connections would like to make it easier for you and your employees.  Child Care Connections is excited to offer you the opportunity to access early childhood seminars, child care resources and referrals, and child care subsidy information for parents - on-site and at your convenience.
ACAP RDC Will Offer On-Site:

• Early Childhood Seminars for Parents
• Referral listings of certified child care providers in Aroostook County
• Subsidy information and applications for financial assistance for child care
• Child care consumer education and resource packets

To schedule an Out-Posting Service Date, or for more information, please contact ACAP RDC at (207) 768-3045.

Resources for the Community
ACAP RDC is excited to offer Aroostook County Communities an opportunity to access child care information, referral, and subsidy information, on-site, at your convenience.  Looking for and learning about quality, affordable child care can be an overwhelming task. The staff at ACAP Resource Development Center would like to make it easier for you, your staff and your clients. 
Our goals are to:

• Get more child care information to more people
• Minimize transportation barriers
• Remove phone service limitations, it is not always easy finding the time to call
• Work with people face to face

Out-Posting Services
ACAP RDC is available to make on-site Out Posting Services available at your organization or workplace.  
 We will offer onsite:

• Consumer child care education
• Subsidy information and applications
• Child care referrals from our Aroostook County database with printout sheets

Information provided:

• Packet of informative educational child care related materials
• On line child care referral information  (ACAP RDC portable laptop and printer) 

Out Posting is a great opportunity to locate a child care program that meets your employee and client needs.  Please call to set up a date. We will come to your location and provide our services at your convenience! 

There is no charge for this service

Call ACAP RDC at (207) 768-3045 or
1-888-917-1100