“When you’re paying $35 an hour and you’re still not able to staff, something else needs to be addressed,” said Juneau pastor Kristi McGuire, after her church's childcare center closed this year in the wake of widespread worker shortages.
The Aurora Lights Childcare Center opened at Juneau’s Aldersgate United Methodist Church in 2018.
“ centers seemed to be coming and going a lot for many different reasons,” Mitchell said. “We thought maybe it would be more steady if the church actually took it and ran with it.” — and the temporary closure of Gold Creek Child Development Center — have made Juneau’s long-standing childcare shortage even worse. . Now, childcare workers, advocates and state legislators are calling for a collaborative approach to rebuilding the workforce.
Hiring at Aurora Lights had been a challenge even before the pandemic. Background checks took two weeks to process, and by then, most applicants had found other jobs. Staffing ratios Finally, in October, Aurora Lights told families they’d be shutting down the coming March, when its administrator was set to leave. A drop in enrollment and loss of staff after the announcement Kristi McGuire is the pastor at Aldersgate United Methodist Church.
Anchorage Democratic Rep. Zack Fields introduced a bill that would give childcare providers the ability to collectively bargain with the state’s health department. Fields said the idea is to give providers a voice when the state makes decisions about funding and regulations.
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