Initiatives

Investment Supporting Families Access Childcare
On March 14, 2025, a press conference was held at a daycare center in Willow Glen, a recent recipient of the County’s childcare infrastructure grant program. The center will be able to add 20 childcare spaces and hire 5 additional teachers.
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American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
On February 28, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved $20 million in funding for childcare initiatives. The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), part of the coronavirus-relief package signed into law in 2021. Of this, $15 million was allocated for childcare infrastructure grants. The Office of Children and Families Policy (OCFP) is finalizing a contract with the Valley Health Foundation to administer the childcare infrastructure grants. Childcare infrastructure grants aim to support licensed childcare center- and family-based provider businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to address childcare disruptions and enrollment gaps by reopening or increasing the total number of affordable infant and toddler childcare spaces available to families.
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