Child Care Choices  

Corporate Referral Service

Better Child Care Means Better Business!

The facts speak for themselves: The quality and stability of today's work force depends on the quality and reliability of the child care available to their children. The issue is a national one, but parents and employers right here in our community are feeling the effects every day of the work week.

The Bottom Line is that productivity and profitability can suffer when your employees experience child care difficulties.

• Absenteeism - A valuable worker may miss days of work while conducting a caregiver search or staying home with a child when child care arrangements fail.
• Stress, Low Morale - Job performance can suffer when child care arrangements are unsatisfactory.
• Tardiness - Parents may have to make alternative provisions if a caregiver is ill or has an emergency.
• Attrition - Competent employees may be forced to stop working altogether or seek a job with a company that offers child care benefits.

It makes good business sense, both economically and philosophically, to care about your employees' child care concerns.

The Answer - Child Care Choices' Corporate Referral Service

Child Care Choices' Corporate Referral Service is a practical, affordable way for you to help your employees meet their child care needs. By contracting this service, you link parents in your employ with valuable support and information that will enable then to make stable, reliable child care choices. You will also reduce stress and low morale so they can remain productive on the job -- and reduce the work time a parent typically loses while searching for the right child care.

How Our Corporate Service Works

  For Your Employees:

• Priority response via a dedicated referral counselor and a computerized database of more than all licensed programs and registered providers in Carroll and Frederick Counties.
• At least three confirmed referrals within three days to providers who have vacancies and who meet location, child's age and other parental preferences.
• Periodic progress checks until satisfactory child care arrangements are made.
• Counseling and a child care handbook to assist parents in choosing and evaluating child care options.
• Information about sources of financial assistance.

  For Your Company

• Easy-to-start program with a nominal annual fee based on the size of your employee population and a per-usage search fee.
• On-site seminars, flyers and handbooks to introduce and publicize the benefits to employees.
• Regular reports on the number of employees who have used the service, to help you assess the importance of child care benefits.
• Reciprocal arrangements with referral systems outside Frederick County.
• Hourly-rate consultation on establishing flextime, job sharing, leave policies, company-sponsored child care programs and other child care benefits for your employees.

Make child care the business of your business...Call Child Care Choices to get started!
Contact Barbara Howard at (301) 662-4549, or email her at Barbara Howard.

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