Membership
Professional child care providers in Westchester County are encouraged to join the Child Care Council to take advantage of discounts, resources, marketing and learning opportunities, and to support our critical mission to promote quality early care and education.
2020 Membership Benefits include:
- Membership Certificate to post at your site
- Discounted calendar trainings and on-site trainings
- Listing on our website with a link to yours
- Free postings on the Council's Job Bank
- Free exclusive Members only networking and annual events
- Lakeshore Learning coupon and discount
- Printed Council Training Calendars
- Free promotional gift
- Refer a friend and receive voucher for a free training
- Once Upon a Child coupon
Your membership dollars fund the Council's efforts to protect Westchester's early care and learning system for children, parents and the early care and education community, through activities such as:
- Advocacy with Westchester's elected officials for more child care funding
- Public education to raise the public's appreciation for the benefits of a strong early learning and after school community
- Representation in Albany and Washington to secure state and federal funding
- Reports and resources on Westchester's regulated child care community
Thanks to your support, we were able to achieve the following advocacy “wins”:
- Subsidy reimbursement rate increases for contracted providers in 2018 and 2019
- Another subsidy reimbursement rate increase for 2020 of 6%
- More Title XX child care slots
- Reduction in the parent share from 27% to 25%
- Switch from hourly to part-day reimbursement for after school
With your help, we will keep fighting for more equitable access to safe, quality, affordable child care for parents and better wages and benefits for child care professionals!
