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More than $200,000 is coming to Kalamazoo, Mich., to help fill the childcare gap.
More than $200,000 is coming to Kalamazoo-area organizations to help in efforts to fill the childcare gap, reports MLive.Grants from the Early Childhood Investment Corporation will help the Kalamazoo Literacy Council and Pulse at the WE.
Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in their efforts to make childcare more accessible, according to a press release from the ECIC.
Michael Evans, executive director of the Kalamazoo Literacy Council, says a $150,000 grant from the ECIC will help a collaboration of organizations increase wages for early education professionals.
The grant will fund phase three of the Edison Early Childhood Education Career Pathway, which has been in the works in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood since January 2020.
The third phase of the project will increase wages and the quality of working conditions for those employed in early childcare.
The career pathway helps support those looking for careers in early childhood education, he says.
The project is a collaboration between Kalamazoo Literacy Council and YWCA Kalamazoo, Southwest Child Care Resources, Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan, Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative Kalamazoo, and Youth Opportunities Unlimited.
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