childcare crisis

The state is restructuring its early childhood investment network to streamline business support and boost childcare access

Kent County Commissioners have approved a plan designed to assist parents struggling to find affordable daycare

Regional leaders are exploring innovative solutions combining new housing with childcare

A first-of-its-kind childcare center in Grand Rapids’ Rapid Central Station is aiming to reduce the commute for working parents and to set a national trend

The Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative is addressing the state’s shortage of early childhood educators with its MiEarly Apprentice program

As impacts vary county to county, leaders discuss potential effects in Kent County

Regional business, civic and economic development leaders met at Cascade Engineering discussing the lack of access to affordable, high-quality childcare

President of the Economic Security Project Natalie Foster joins in with the discussion.

We talk to Chana Edmond-Verley, CEO of Vibrant Futures and parent Sarah Pfenninger about addressing a childcare crisis in Michigan.

An early childhood center proposed to open next fall inside The Rapid’s main bus station is receiving $200,000 from the Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority