Bonus Episode: A Mother's Quest: Closing the Childcare Gap w. Kylie Schildt
Nebraska Extension Early Childhood Program Area-Emily Manning, Dr. Holly Hatton, Ingrid Lindal, Erin Kampbell, Linda Reddish, Katie Krause, and LaDonna Werth
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This bonus episode continues the discussion about Seward County, Nebraska and the demand for childcare. Kylie Schildt, a mother in Seward County, discusses her personal experiences with finding childcare in rural Nebraska, highlighting the limited options. In an inspiring move, Kylie and her mother decided to develop their own center to expand childcare access in Seward County.
Milford Childhood Learning Center- https://milfordchildhood.com/
MCLC Open House- https://milfordchildhood.com/news/milford-debuts-new-childcare-center-in-expansion-project
Choosing Quality Child Care- https://child.unl.edu/quality-child-care
Step Up to Quality- https://stepuptoquality.ne.gov/
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- [00:00:03.660]This is "The Good Life in Early Life"
- [00:00:06.840]a production of Nebraska Extension.
- [00:00:08.730]I'm your host, Emily Manning,
- [00:00:10.230]an early childhood extension educator in Seward County.
- [00:00:13.230]We have a bonus episode for you today
- [00:00:15.150]and in this bonus episode we'll be speaking to a mother
- [00:00:17.670]who experienced difficulties with finding childcare.
- [00:00:20.130]And so she decided she wanted to do something about it.
- [00:00:22.770]This episode gets emotional.
- [00:00:24.600]You can definitely hear the mother's passion in it.
- [00:00:27.090]So buckle up and enjoy this bonus episode
- [00:00:29.700]that we have for you.
- [00:00:30.660]Our guest is a Nebraska native
- [00:00:32.370]who was raised on a fifth generation family dairy farm
- [00:00:35.280]near Pleasant Dale, Nebraska.
- [00:00:36.870]She's a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- [00:00:39.330]and has over a decade of experience in nonprofit,
- [00:00:41.910]trade association, management and marketing
- [00:00:44.010]through working for Advanced Association Management,
- [00:00:46.770]a local firm based in Milford, Nebraska
- [00:00:48.840]that her parents founded in 2010.
- [00:00:50.820]She and her mother have recently routed their experience
- [00:00:53.190]in nonprofit management, building renovation,
- [00:00:55.530]and grant writing to create the local initiative,
- [00:00:57.810]the Milford Childhood Learning Center,
- [00:00:59.490]to address the 50% childcare deficit in Seward County.
- [00:01:02.880]Welcome to the show, Kylie Schildt.
- [00:01:05.310]You got it.
- [00:01:06.240]Thanks Kylie.
- [00:01:07.073]It's a tough one. Yes.
- [00:01:08.814]Welcome to the show.
- [00:01:09.990]We're so happy that you're on here
- [00:01:11.430]and sharing your time and expertise with us.
- [00:01:13.680]So, Kylie, you've shared with me before
- [00:01:16.020]that you do have children of your own
- [00:01:17.610]and you struggled finding care for those children
- [00:01:20.670]when you returned to Milford, Nebraska in 2020
- [00:01:23.550]from Kansas City. Would you like to tell the listeners
- [00:01:25.637]a little bit more about your family,
- [00:01:28.260]and your experience with trying to find care
- [00:01:30.750]when you came back to Nebraska?
- [00:01:32.340]Yeah, so my husband is from Milford as well
- [00:01:35.580]and we got married in 2016.
- [00:01:38.580]And then we kind of just picked up
- [00:01:40.800]and moved to Kansas City for a few years
- [00:01:42.750]and we had my oldest daughter Kit there.
- [00:01:44.940]She just turned four.
- [00:01:46.260]And in September of 2020 we found a house in Seward
- [00:01:51.570]and just thought, "We're starting our family.
- [00:01:53.820]We need to be closer to the rest of our family,
- [00:01:55.980]so maybe this is a good time to move back."
- [00:01:58.140]And we moved back in September of 2020,
- [00:02:01.740]and childcare was just pretty much non-existent.
- [00:02:05.250]She was nine-months-old,
- [00:02:06.180]so there's not a lot of spots for infant care
- [00:02:08.490]under 18 months, so.
- [00:02:09.780]I think we were pretty surprised at the lack of access
- [00:02:13.443]and we didn't really realize if you're not on a wait list
- [00:02:17.490]by the time you're pregnant,
- [00:02:18.540]you've pretty much already missed out on infant care
- [00:02:21.210]and that's just such a huge stress point.
- [00:02:23.580]We ended up taking her to one local provider in Milford
- [00:02:27.660]and she had an opening for Monday and Tuesday.
- [00:02:29.910]And then I had another unlicensed provider
- [00:02:32.070]who had just been doing an in-home off and on
- [00:02:34.320]for probably the better part of 20, 25 years.
- [00:02:36.690]And she had availability on Tuesdays and Fridays.
- [00:02:40.290]And then J.R.'s mom could watch her on Wednesdays.
- [00:02:43.080]So she literally went to a different provider
- [00:02:44.932]every single day.
- [00:02:46.143]Wow.
- [00:02:46.976]From the eyes of my nine-month-old,
- [00:02:48.552]a different person, like, every single day
- [00:02:51.480]was just wild to me.
- [00:02:53.040]So eventually we were able to get in full-time
- [00:02:55.470]at the unlicensed provider and kind of stayed there,
- [00:02:58.632]and had our second child, Roy.
- [00:03:01.740]Then she decided to move to Lincoln.
- [00:03:03.330]I mean, she's done it for over 25 years.
- [00:03:05.002]She was kind of just ready to be done,
- [00:03:06.630]which is totally fair.
- [00:03:07.886]Then we were kind of left with nothing again
- [00:03:10.410]and having another child then under 18 months,
- [00:03:13.170]I just was hit with the same struggle again
- [00:03:15.660]of there's just nothing here.
- [00:03:17.310]And, yeah, I kind of reached the point of
- [00:03:19.770]being fed up with this problem over and over and over again.
- [00:03:22.200]Where was your interest coming from in opening
- [00:03:24.630]this Milford Childhood Learning Center?
- [00:03:26.490]So my in-home provider notified me,
- [00:03:29.310]I think the last Friday in March of last year,
- [00:03:32.670]that she was retiring.
- [00:03:34.440]I literally sat on her couch and started crying.
- [00:03:36.780]I felt so bad.
- [00:03:37.984]And we've known each other a long time,
- [00:03:39.990]and we have a good relationship.
- [00:03:42.150]And I think she felt bad,
- [00:03:44.430]but I totally respected her decision
- [00:03:46.200]and knew that it had kind of been looming a little bit.
- [00:03:48.840]So I kind of rerouted a little bit.
- [00:03:50.790]I have more contacts within economic development
- [00:03:53.610]because of some work within my job,
- [00:03:55.830]and Jonathan Jank,
- [00:03:56.940]I've worked with him a lot on a few different projects.
- [00:03:59.340]So I went back and rerouted with Jonathan
- [00:04:01.230]and he connected me with C4K, Communities for Kids,
- [00:04:05.190]and we had a call.
- [00:04:06.390]I think I scheduled it, like, Monday or Tuesday
- [00:04:08.940]after my in-home provider notified me,
- [00:04:10.860]like, I worked pretty quick.
- [00:04:12.270]And we had a call about what rural childcare looks like
- [00:04:15.420]and the kind of differences between starting an in-home
- [00:04:18.990]and starting a center and what are some hurdles
- [00:04:21.240]and what are some things to look for.
- [00:04:22.800]And then it kind of snowballed from there.
- [00:04:24.067]So we really just didn't go about it saying
- [00:04:27.090]we have all the answers.
- [00:04:28.170]We went about it saying we're not gonna reinvent the wheel.
- [00:04:31.590]And, like, what are other communities doing to solve this
- [00:04:35.190]and what can we learn from them?
- [00:04:36.960]Uh-hmm, yeah.
- [00:04:37.793]So it sounds like your interests just came from
- [00:04:41.730]just, like, dire need, like, I need childcare.
- [00:04:44.010]Yes.
- [00:04:44.843]There's nothing here, what do I do?
- [00:04:47.118]And then from there figuring out, like,
- [00:04:49.620]okay, what do we do?
- [00:04:51.180]That's like a core piece of,
- [00:04:53.427]and maybe this is the, like, rural Nebraska in me showing.
- [00:04:56.760]My dad, his family has a fifth-generation dairy farm
- [00:05:00.690]and my great great-grandpa homesteaded from Germany,
- [00:05:04.770]he immigrated from Germany
- [00:05:05.910]and homesteaded right north of Pleasant Dale.
- [00:05:08.040]And there's this hole that we stand in sometimes.
- [00:05:10.650]My parents made us stand in it a lot when we were kids,
- [00:05:12.617]and it was the hole they dug when they had to winter there.
- [00:05:16.110]So they homesteaded on December 3rd of, I think, 1880.
- [00:05:19.740]And they had to live in this hole
- [00:05:21.840]'cause they didn't have time to, like, build
- [00:05:23.430]any kind of structure or anything to live in.
- [00:05:25.170]And it just reminds my family, like,
- [00:05:27.480]you have to start from somewhere.
- [00:05:28.710]And so I think thinking about the struggles
- [00:05:31.020]I'm going through and wanting my kids to stay in Milford
- [00:05:34.200]and stay in Nebraska the way that my mom wants me to,
- [00:05:36.930]I had to build something that is sustainable
- [00:05:38.910]so that my daughter has some, sorry.
- [00:05:42.390]Why are you sorry?
- [00:05:43.223]It's okay.
- [00:05:44.056]No, I just...
- [00:05:45.960]This is very, like, close to home so I understand.
- [00:05:50.130]Yeah, I think just building something that
- [00:05:52.653]my kids don't have to have that same struggle
- [00:05:55.045]in helping grow their families, too,
- [00:05:58.020]is really important to me.
- [00:05:59.340]Yeah, so that they don't have to be in the dirt hole.
- [00:06:02.394]Right?
- [00:06:03.480]There were a lot of chigger bites that happened to me.
- [00:06:06.240]Yeah, oh, I hate chigger bites, they're the worst.
- [00:06:09.450]All fall, that's all I had
- [00:06:11.100]was just a huge hole in the land
- [00:06:13.230]that I had to build the center in.
- [00:06:14.400]And, finally, December 14th,
- [00:06:16.560]which was 11 days after the homestead date,
- [00:06:20.513]I moved a house on top of that hole,
- [00:06:22.500]and then we had a hole to move to a center, so,
- [00:06:25.500]it rounded out.
- [00:06:26.430]That is so deeply meaningful.
- [00:06:28.200]So you've talked a little bit about what's the process
- [00:06:30.570]been like for opening a new childcare center,
- [00:06:32.310]but I'd just like to learn a little bit more like.
- [00:06:34.320]Yeah, and just been told that,
- [00:06:36.630]like, why are these women going about this so quickly?
- [00:06:39.360]Why is it paced so fast,
- [00:06:41.010]and why is this all happening the way that it is?
- [00:06:43.329]Yeah.
- [00:06:44.162]And I think that a part of that is my personality
- [00:06:47.599]a little bit.
- [00:06:48.900]And so really knowing what my personality is
- [00:06:51.780]and how it comes off to other people is important.
- [00:06:53.820]So I think the hustle that my mom and I had
- [00:06:56.100]around a lot of these grants and timelines
- [00:06:58.770]that we had to juggle probably did look pretty aggressive
- [00:07:01.830]to other people.
- [00:07:02.730]I wish people had more of a scope
- [00:07:04.830]around how these grants rolled out with DHHS,
- [00:07:07.200]and with the ARPA funding through the federal side of it,
- [00:07:10.200]'cause that played into a huge role
- [00:07:11.970]of how this all played out, so.
- [00:07:14.010]Yeah, because there's been a lot of funding lately
- [00:07:15.608]and then you have to use it by a certain date.
- [00:07:19.020]So it almost feels like there's a clock ticking, like.
- [00:07:21.120]Right. How much can I get done?
- [00:07:22.786]How much can I get accomplished
- [00:07:24.120]so that I can take full advantage of this funding
- [00:07:26.940]that is just available during this specific time?
- [00:07:28.873]Right.
- [00:07:29.706]Like this amazing window, right?
- [00:07:30.832]Right.
- [00:07:31.665]Is that what you're kinda saying?
- [00:07:32.670]Yes, this window of funding that happened,
- [00:07:35.310]and it opened in January of 2023,
- [00:07:37.705]but there was, like, a weird timeframe
- [00:07:41.280]within probably April to June 30th, which was the deadline.
- [00:07:45.106]The funding just got drastically
- [00:07:47.730]underutilized by communities
- [00:07:49.890]'cause it was required for expansion and startup.
- [00:07:52.500]So there were some hurdles
- [00:07:54.330]in that current licensed working providers
- [00:07:57.360]couldn't utilize the funding.
- [00:07:58.560]And I can see from even my previous provider's perspective
- [00:08:01.800]how frustrating that was,
- [00:08:03.090]but the goal was really expansion and capacity for spots.
- [00:08:06.480]So Milford has a 52 childcare deficit,
- [00:08:09.593]so that means 52 kids don't have access
- [00:08:11.700]to full-time licensed care in our town.
- [00:08:14.550]And as much as current providers in Seward County
- [00:08:18.000]could have utilized that funding
- [00:08:19.200]and it really helped their operating businesses,
- [00:08:22.200]it does show that the amount of businesses operating
- [00:08:24.600]wasn't enough for the amount of kids that we had.
- [00:08:26.850]That expansion was needed.
- [00:08:28.740]I think as a whole, I just don't think
- [00:08:31.350]a lot of communities were ready for having, I'd say,
- [00:08:34.890]a lot of the dominoes lined up for what needed to happen.
- [00:08:38.340]So from a community side,
- [00:08:39.690]I can see where other community members could say,
- [00:08:42.510]wow, they're really going at this really quickly and fast,
- [00:08:44.828]but it did have, like, a price tag to it.
- [00:08:48.930]And so I think that's my maybe biggest misconception.
- [00:08:52.590]I wouldn't want anyone ever to think
- [00:08:53.940]that I went about this for solely, like, economic purpose,
- [00:08:57.060]or because I just wanted to build a business,
- [00:08:58.830]or from an ego standpoint.
- [00:09:00.060]Every single step of this has been for my kids.
- [00:09:02.220]And so it sounds like that kinda came off
- [00:09:05.160]in the community like, oh my gosh.
- [00:09:06.960]Like, whoa, what are they doing?
- [00:09:09.150]Like they're going so fast,
- [00:09:10.260]like, people trying to keep up with that fast pace
- [00:09:12.849]and coming to terms with that,
- [00:09:14.880]but it sounds like you found
- [00:09:16.500]that when you share with others your core values
- [00:09:19.860]and where you are coming from,
- [00:09:21.270]people are a lot more receptive.
- [00:09:22.639]Yes.
- [00:09:23.472]And they're a lot more understanding,
- [00:09:24.810]and they're a lot more ready to get on board
- [00:09:26.432]with you and your mom and what you guys are doing.
- [00:09:29.178]Right.
- [00:09:30.011]With the amazing work. Yes.
- [00:09:30.900]Like they start to understand that.
- [00:09:32.460]Yeah, absolutely.
- [00:09:33.459]Yeah, and since we're talking about communities
- [00:09:36.210]and involving the community,
- [00:09:37.650]let's talk about some of the groups and organizations
- [00:09:39.637]that you have partnered with
- [00:09:41.550]and maybe even the response from the community
- [00:09:43.409]for helping get this Milford Childhood Learning Center
- [00:09:46.558]started and going.
- [00:09:48.060]After I got notified by my in-home
- [00:09:49.680]and I had my conference call scheduled,
- [00:09:51.840]then I had to figure out, like,
- [00:09:54.180]what does this actually look like for a plan in Milford?
- [00:09:57.450]And so Jonathan and I actually just jumped on a call
- [00:09:59.791]and we brought up Google Maps and we just looked in Milford
- [00:10:02.970]for, like, green undeveloped spaces.
- [00:10:04.559]Oh.
- [00:10:05.392]Milford's pretty annexed, so any expansion has like
- [00:10:09.270]a lot of approvals and things to go through.
- [00:10:10.980]That was part of the grant funding, too, for DHHS.
- [00:10:12.990]They really pushed for renovating existing structures
- [00:10:16.770]and there's not a lot of potential existing structures
- [00:10:20.160]that would work for a childcare center in Milford.
- [00:10:22.470]So we really highlighted one specific area.
- [00:10:25.519]It's an L-shaped piece of land
- [00:10:27.510]next to Bellwood Mennonite Church.
- [00:10:29.100]So I met with the pastor
- [00:10:30.420]and I had kinda connected with him through my pastor
- [00:10:32.212]at a different church.
- [00:10:33.318]So I guess to preface, this isn't a church that I attend,
- [00:10:36.449]which was kind of a wild, like, open conversation I guess,
- [00:10:40.440]to have an open dialogue with a congregation
- [00:10:43.230]that you don't attend or you don't go to a church with, so.
- [00:10:45.960]I connected with my pastor and then the pastor at Bellwood
- [00:10:49.220]and we kind of talked through the land that they have
- [00:10:52.170]surrounding their church.
- [00:10:53.520]And so the church had been talking about
- [00:10:54.900]how to utilize the land the best,
- [00:10:57.090]and if there's an aspect of community outreach.
- [00:10:59.220]So I actually presented, I think it was April,
- [00:11:01.451]like, mid-April, April 17th-ish around there
- [00:11:05.160]and presented to the elder board.
- [00:11:06.930]And then I presented to the church congregations.
- [00:11:08.820]And this was before Kathi and I
- [00:11:10.320]were overly educated on any of these large DHHS grants.
- [00:11:14.640]So to say I went into Bellwood with literally nothing
- [00:11:18.090]but a PowerPoint is, like, 100% accurate.
- [00:11:20.880]I had nothing.
- [00:11:21.713]I had not a dollar,
- [00:11:23.280]not a dime towards this project,
- [00:11:24.628]it was just Kathi and I slinging ideas.
- [00:11:27.540]And they were really positive and, like, receptive to that.
- [00:11:30.660]I think they had some really good questions
- [00:11:32.670]and vetted a lot of things about how this would play out
- [00:11:34.950]and what this would look like.
- [00:11:36.210]That was a huge piece
- [00:11:37.380]in getting the ball rolling with the land.
- [00:11:39.420]So they actually agreed to donate
- [00:11:40.446]a piece of that L-shape of land for $1 for 50 years,
- [00:11:44.636]which I am so unbelievably grateful for.
- [00:11:48.480]I can't believe that that even happened,
- [00:11:51.060]that a church did that.
- [00:11:52.740]And I just had a PowerPoint, that's all I had,
- [00:11:55.350]but that really cemented our ability
- [00:11:57.510]to move forward with the grant process.
- [00:11:59.130]And I think they approved that early May.
- [00:12:01.080]And the grant deadline was June 30th.
- [00:12:02.730]So I had to hustle and get this grant going
- [00:12:05.567]after they approved that.
- [00:12:07.590]And then the biggest hurdle next within the grant funding
- [00:12:11.940]was to get a construction timeline that was compliant
- [00:12:14.425]by the end of the year.
- [00:12:16.020]So Southeast Community College
- [00:12:17.190]has a building construction program
- [00:12:18.780]and the students build a home every single year,
- [00:12:21.030]a residential home.
- [00:12:21.863]So we went and met with SCC and we were like,
- [00:12:25.830]we know you're building this residential home.
- [00:12:27.105]It's gonna be done towards December,
- [00:12:29.760]and is there an opportunity for us to buy it?
- [00:12:32.130]And so we had to kind of look through some intricacies
- [00:12:33.938]on how they usually do that,
- [00:12:35.490]but thankfully they were able to agree to that.
- [00:12:37.200]So working with SCC
- [00:12:39.058]and them confirming our ability to buy that house up front
- [00:12:43.110]really laid the dominoes out for us
- [00:12:45.312]to be able to capture that grant funding
- [00:12:47.454]and be able to kind of move forward
- [00:12:50.700]with the rest of the project.
- [00:12:51.720]So to get the land first
- [00:12:53.520]and have the church really have that upfront buy-in,
- [00:12:56.880]that really helped snowball the rest of the funding,
- [00:13:00.780]the house purchase, the build,
- [00:13:02.940]in a really strategic way that had grant compliance.
- [00:13:05.700]It maximized these COVID type dollars
- [00:13:08.280]and really just helped us get moving.
- [00:13:10.980]I think that it was pretty unbelievable
- [00:13:14.400]the timing that went into this project.
- [00:13:16.290]I totally, from my perspective,
- [00:13:19.380]would credit God to all of that.
- [00:13:21.210]I think it's just been almost unbelievable
- [00:13:23.130]how everything's been laid out and how it's all worked out,
- [00:13:25.770]and I really just sometimes can't believe it.
- [00:13:28.140]And how we've just chipped away bit by bit at a time.
- [00:13:31.050]I will say I will definitely credit Milford
- [00:13:32.893]for the generosity that we've received so far.
- [00:13:35.790]It wasn't a lot upfront.
- [00:13:37.470]I think there was a lot of people hesitant
- [00:13:39.325]of what's really going on here, how's this gonna play out?
- [00:13:42.630]But as it's progressed and people have seen progress,
- [00:13:45.272]I think in total we've received over 159,000
- [00:13:49.402]in community dollars donated.
- [00:13:51.750]Wow.
- [00:13:52.583]Like, people's checkbooks signed.
- [00:13:54.714]Yeah.
- [00:13:55.710]So that's immense support and I'm really, really grateful
- [00:13:58.410]that people have seen our vision
- [00:14:00.000]and been able to support us in donating that.
- [00:14:03.210]That's a huge, huge, huge help.
- [00:14:04.920]When are you supposed to open?
- [00:14:06.630]I'm hoping for around April.
- [00:14:08.640]I was just gonna say, like, this episode,
- [00:14:10.740]I think we're planning on releasing in April, so.
- [00:14:13.530]And right now we're recording at the end of February.
- [00:14:15.840]So I'm really excited to follow-up with Kylie
- [00:14:18.270]and see how the center is and maybe post pictures from,
- [00:14:21.870]like, open houses and opening night, so.
- [00:14:24.570]It's just crazy to imagine how much is gonna happen
- [00:14:26.910]in this short timeframe of time.
- [00:14:28.801]Right.
- [00:14:29.730]But it's exciting, I'm so excited for you,
- [00:14:31.650]and I'm so excited for the community of Milford
- [00:14:33.382]and what's ahead.
- [00:14:34.693]This is gonna be amazing.
- [00:14:36.360]Thank you so much for all that you shared with us.
- [00:14:38.269]I think both Kylie and I were about to cry
- [00:14:40.890]during this episode, so it's very near and dear to my heart.
- [00:14:43.230]And I really appreciate you taking time out of your day
- [00:14:46.762]to talk with me and to share your expertise with listeners
- [00:14:50.130]because I think so many people are facing this issue
- [00:14:53.190]and they wanna know solutions,
- [00:14:54.450]they wanna know what they can do.
- [00:14:56.130]And I think just having an example of someone
- [00:14:58.200]who just up and did it is really helpful
- [00:15:00.480]and it's really motivating for other people.
- [00:15:02.520]So thank you so much for your time,
- [00:15:04.441]and thank you for your efforts here in Milford.
- [00:15:06.470]Yeah, thank you so much.
- [00:15:07.680]If anybody has listened to this and is inspired,
- [00:15:10.680]our website is milfordchildhood.com
- [00:15:13.170]and all of that contact information gets routed back to me,
- [00:15:16.470]or someone that knows me.
- [00:15:17.670]So you can always just ask for Kylie,
- [00:15:18.951]and I'm always willing to take a call or meet with somebody,
- [00:15:22.380]especially if it's for childcare access I'm open to it, so.
- [00:15:26.610]Thank you for being open to helping others.
- [00:15:28.350]That is so generous and helpful of you.
- [00:15:29.857]Thank you so much, Kylie.
- [00:15:31.710]Thank you.
- [00:15:32.543]So I have some happy, exciting news for you all.
- [00:15:35.670]I was able to follow-up with Kylie
- [00:15:37.260]on how the center is going
- [00:15:38.580]and they actually have an open house coming up.
- [00:15:40.740]It's gonna be on Sunday, May 5th from 3:00 to 6:00 PM
- [00:15:44.460]at 520 South A Street in Milford, Nebraska.
- [00:15:48.300]You are welcome to check it out,
- [00:15:49.770]and go and support Kylie and Kathi's efforts
- [00:15:52.350]in opening the child development center there in Milford.
- [00:15:55.050]Also, I wanted to share a few resources for you
- [00:15:57.720]if you are trying to find childcare for yourself.
- [00:16:00.030]Our early childhood team has some resources on our website.
- [00:16:03.210]We have a Choosing Quality Childcare in Nebraska guide
- [00:16:06.780]that will help you as you are looking and evaluating care
- [00:16:10.650]and trying to decide where you wanna place your child at.
- [00:16:13.770]I will put that link into our show notes.
- [00:16:16.080]I also wanted to recommend Step Up to Quality Nebraska.
- [00:16:19.611]It's another resource that you can use
- [00:16:21.630]as you are trying to find childcare for your children.
- [00:16:25.140]It does rate providers based on some quality standards
- [00:16:29.430]that we have outlined in Nebraska.
- [00:16:31.530]So I will also link that resource
- [00:16:33.644]into our show notes for you if you want to check that out.
- [00:16:36.570]Let us know if these were helpful.
- [00:16:37.980]If you utilized them,
- [00:16:39.180]we would love to hear from you listeners.
- [00:16:41.092]And because we love to hear from you,
- [00:16:42.883]we have placed a very quick survey into the show notes
- [00:16:46.163]for you to share your feedback on this episode
- [00:16:48.960]and the one that just came out on Tuesday,
- [00:16:50.910]'cause we just love to hear from you
- [00:16:52.470]and hear how you're enjoying the episodes.
- [00:16:54.930]So check that out as well.
- [00:16:56.490]Thanks so much.
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- [00:16:58.710]This has been another episode
- [00:17:00.510]of "The Good Life in Early Life,"
- [00:17:02.533]a Nebraska Extension Early Childhood production
- [00:17:05.010]with your host Emily Manning.
- [00:17:06.690]For more information on early childhood,
- [00:17:08.254]check out our website at child.unl.edu.
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- [00:17:14.535]The show production team is Emily Manning, Dr. Holly Hatton,
- [00:17:18.450]Erin Kampbell, Ingrid Lindal, Linda Reddish, Kim Wellsandt,
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