Access to good child care can help boost recruitment, retention and satisfaction in agricultural jobs, but it can be hard to find. A new guidebook aims to change that.
A Roadmap for Delivering Child Care in Agricultural Communities seeks to help them get child care programs off the ground, with practical tips on how to identify and meet their needs; adopt strategies on how to fund, build and market the program or center; and info on policy and legal considerations.
The roadmap was developed with input from farm-worker parents, farmers and other agricultural employers, human-resources directors, insurance providers and Head Start specialists. It's part of the "Protecting Children While Parents Work in Agriculture" project, an initiative of the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety and the Migrant Clinicians Network, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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