Paths to QUALITY | Employers

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QUALITY EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION IS SERIOUS BUSINESS! All employers want a reliable supply of talent to fulfill their workforce needs. Employers want to attract and retain the very best employees, and also want their employees to be as productive on the job as possible. Access to affordable, high quality early care and education helps meet all three needs. High quality early learning environments help grow the workforce of the future. The availability of such care helps attract and retain employees with young families and employee morale—and it helps reduce absenteeism, tardiness, turnover, and productivity issues related to child care insecurity.

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Paths to QUALITY™ Helps Businesses Increase Productivity!

Our free services for you and your employees include:

Individualized early care and education searches by phone or online.
One-on-one consultation at your workplace to help your employees find and keep the best quality early care and education program available
Information about programs open during 1st, 2nd and 3rd shifts, during weekends, and school breaks

Detailed listings of early care and education programs participating in Paths to QUALITY, Indiana’s voluntary rating and improvement system for early care and education
Designated employee-only early care and education phone line 800-299-1627 ext. 275

Ways to Help Your Employees Identify Quality Early Care and Education Programs.

Share information about Paths to QUALITY™ with employees, especially–but not exclusively–with employees who are expecting a baby or have young children.
Host a “Learn & Lunch” or similar event for your employees on the benefits of high quality early care and education and how to find it.
Subsidize early care as an employee benefit for employees, especially infant care, which is typically more expensive and hard to find.

Create a relationship with a high quality early care facility close to the workplace to reserve spaces for your employees and/or support your employees in finding emergency back-up care.
Put the Free Child Care Search button on your organization’s intranet or internet site.
Download the Free Child Care Search Button for your site now

Participating Businesses and Organizations

Free Child Care Search Button Partners

We gratefully acknowledge these businesses, organizations, and institutions that, by posting the Free Child Care Search Button on their intranets and websites, have partnered with us to help lead Indiana families to quality child care.