Community Colleges & Child Care
Community college students are often balancing lives and responsibilities outside of school — from work to family obligations. For community college students with young children, the struggle to find and afford child care can make a tricky balance close to impossible.
In this series, EdNC explores how community colleges are expanding child care access and affordability in three primary ways: providing on-campus child care options; utilizing state grants to help students afford care; and strengthening the child care workforce, including through fast-track options like child care academies.
The series includes the following articles:
- Overview: Community college student parents need child care. Here’s how colleges can help
- Strategy 1: Providing on-campus child care
- EdNC’s analysis of models to provide early childhood education on the campuses of community colleges
- How Cape Fear Community College provides drop-in child care at no cost to students
- Bladen Community College is bringing a century-old school out of ‘retirement’ to serve children, families, and their community
- Sandhills Community College invests in on-site after-school program to support family wellness
- Playbook by McDowell Technical Community College
- Strategy 2: Utilizing state grants
- Strategy 3: Strengthening the child care workforce
