Kids' Advocacy Coalition
Child Care Resource and Referral
of South Central Georgia

Child care affects business. How can that be?

Here's the big picture, for the long-term:

• Job skills begin in early care.
• Workers need to take directions, listen, complete tasks on time.
• Children can learn those skills when they are very young.
• Employers need stable, well-adjusted workers. Social skills and motivation can best be learned at an early age.

• Parents who bring high-stress family issues to work with them make mistakes, have accidents, and cause conflicts.
• Quality child care reduces employee stress.
• Children in inferior care suffer illness and accidents more often and parents miss work. Quality care reduces illness and accidents.
• A workforce preoccupied with inadequate child care is not a reliable workforce.

• Every $1 invested in quality care returns $7 through increased learning, reduced special education, less welfare, and less crime. (American City Business Journals, 4/14/03)

• The Child Care Resource & Referral Agency of South Georgia can provide current information about providers. We can tell you which are the Homes or Centers of distinction.
• Recommend your workers ask tough questions before choosing or changing child care providers. We can give you a list of questions to provide to your employees.