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These are the stories Coloradans are sharing about how child care is impacting their lives. See how affordable, quality child care helps communities thrive. See how the absence of that care hurts all of us.
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Monique Mom
Childcare has helped me tremendously, Although at first, it was a little difficult because I didn’t know about the CPCD And trying to find childcare was hard I was missing a lot of work. Being able to go to work and not have to worry about finding someone to be with my young children has made it easier and having a peace of mind to know they are being properly cared for and not only that ...
Lisa Thomas, Head Start Parent
One of my biggest challenges in 2025 was finding childcare, and it directly impacted my ability to work. When CCCAP was frozen, I could not find affordable options for consistent, reliable, and quality care for my son. Because of this, I was frequently late or absent from work and ended up losing my job in September. This wasn't due to lack of effort, but lack of resources. Since finding ...
Olivia Tipton, parent of 1
We are a military family, and our son is an only child. He has been diagnosed with Sensory Regulation Disorder and a speech delay. Before CPCD, I was a stay-at-home mom who put her life on hold to fully dedicate my time to him. Finances were tight, and it didn’t make sense to work only to pay for daycare—but it was still a struggle. I’m not an educator, and adding “teacher” to the roles of ...
Kris, parent of one
I work remote and it took nearly a year to find a consistent childcare provider. We had several people ghost us or provide poor care despite them stating they had many years of childcare service.We cannot afford a lot, like many others, but provided slightly over CO minimum wage and would compensate above and beyond for additional hours needed last minute.We tried contacting some local ...
Racquel, parent of 4
Childcare has been extremely hard to get for my little ones. I am a mom of a 5 year old, 4 year old, 1 year old and 3 month old. I have to miss school often because of lack of childcare and my 4 year old son who was 3 when he started preschool initially was only able to go because of a speech delay. I try to do deliveries of extra money but often can’t do that because I would have to take my ...
Megan parent of 2
Both of my girls been in early head start since they was baby’s, and I thank it made a difference in my life cuz they got to hang out with kids there own age and I get time to my self.It’s hard to work now because I can’t find a job that we’ll go with my daughter schedule I don’t really have anyone else to pick my daughter up from school I’m doing it on my ownSince my daughter been in early ...
RT (mother of two)
There was a period in my life when childcare made a huge difference in whether I could move forward or felt completely stuck. When my child was younger, I depended on reliable childcare so I could go to work and continue my education. On the days when my childcare fell through, everything else in my life stopped. I missed classes, had to call in to work last minute, and constantly felt like ...
Dan Adam, Small Business Owner
I was a single parent for many years. At the time, I was an entry-level automotive technician, not making a lot of money. I was fortunate enough to find a woman who was doing childcare out of her house. She was able to work with my schedule, and the cost was something I could manage.
That worked out nicely, but then she ended up moving out of state. When that happened, I had to go back to ...
Anon Parent
I was working at a daycare when I had my son. I went back when he was 8 weeks old and worked for about 6 months until we were literally drowning financially because we were paying for my son to go to the same daycare that I worked at. My partner was working full time as well. And as an employee I was receiving a "discount" for the weekly tuition. By the time my son was 8 months old I had to ...
Anne, parent of one
I had my child in November of 2019 and by the time I needed to go back to work, I was unable to find affordable childcare that made sense paying for with my current salary. I had been looking for care throughout my pregnancy. I was about to quit my job but my employer offered for me to come back in February 2020 with the flexibility to work some from home while I continued searching for ...
Stephen, father of 3
When our kids were little we used a nanny we found through Care.com. Honestly, it was scary. You’re dropping your kids off at someone’s house with very little ability to verify anything. Other kids, big dogs — you just hope your kids are safe when you pick them up. But you have to go to work. You’ve got to put food on the table. You’re choosing between two bad options. We didn't have family ...
Offstage Mama of Three
There’s a whole part of me that people don’t really see anymore. I used to spend my evenings in rehearsals, singing in choirs, and getting lost in community theatre. Harmonizing with other people was one of the few places where I felt completely like myself.
Once I became a mom, all of that stopped. Not because I wanted it to, but because there’s almost no evening or night child care. And ...
Mayra Mom
Childcare has made a huge difference in my life by taking a tremendous amount of stress off my shoulders. Before childcare, I worried every day about my mom watching my son. Because of her age, it was difficult for her to keep up with how energetic he is, yet she watched him five days a week for eight hours a day so I could work and provide for us. Having access to childcare has lifted a ...
Christine and Devin, parents on 1
This program had help our family in many ways. The first big thing is helping Suttyn and her being able to learn and meet new people. She talks about school and teacher and loves going. She has learn so many new things. We had also help us by allowing me to work and help financially in our home.
Elisha parent of 3
So back in October my husband had a joking a seizure and was in the hospital for a week we've been loaded with bills from the hospital then he landed up back in the hospital and November for a couple of days for blood transplants and we've been really struggling with how to get Christmas so I asked my youngest daughter's teacher to see if they had any programs that might help me and they ...
Ashly H
I have 5 foster kids 4 under 7 day care has saved my life. My youngest is less then one I have 2 two year olds and a 3 year old and also a 7 years old. If it wasn’t for day care I couldn’t work. I am so thankful for the two day cares my foster kids go to.
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