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The Greene County Early Learning Center is moving into a new facility thanks in part to the Future Ready Iowa Child Care Challenge Grant. 

The Child Care Challenge grant is already making a difference throughout Iowa. It provides funding opportunities for child care facilities to modernize, renovate, or update their child care space and support additional openings. Watch and learn how Precious Beginnings, a center based out of Des Moines, IA, used the specialized grant to finish a project 20 years in the making and what it means to the parents of local children in the surrounding community. Learn more about the Child Care Challenge Grant by visiting: FutureReadyIowa.gov/childcarechallenge. For all other workforce resources and programs, please visit IowaWorkforceDevelopment.gov.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds launched the Child Care Task Force to understand the issues facing child care providers in Iowa and help expand access to quality child care. Child care providers and advocates describe some of the barriers they face and explain how state funding is already helping them solve child care barriers in their community.

Having a child care facility equipped to care for children with special needs is a top priority for their working parents. In Ames, Iowa, ChildServe has been providing child care for kids with Autism more than five years, and now they are able to expand their services thanks to the Child Care Challenge Grant. Find out how the grant is being used at their facility in Ames and how it will impact the community, especially for parents of a young child with Autism.

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