‘When Crises Collide’ - Milwaukee Business Journal

Parents and care providers were pushed to their limits even before the pandemic started in March 2020. Since, stress around coordinating care and gaps in access to quality, affordable, child care have only increased.

This Milwaukee Business Journal article highlights the effects of the pandemic on the child care industry/workforce and amplifies parents experience with the recent changes.

“We know that high-quality child care is correlated with children being more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college and be successfully employed. All of these positive benefits accrue from child care, and if children don’t have access to it, that means we’re taking one powerful tool for academic achievement and social mobility away at an early age.”

Milwaukee Succeeds is working with our community through the Early Childhood Civic Response Team to elevate the issues addressed in the article. Notably, by prioritizing the voices of local childcare providers, mobilizing resources, and streaming grant money and PPE to providers in Black and Brown neighborhoods.