{"id":2958,"date":"2020-04-25T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:57:55","slug":"tootris-commits-additional-resources-to-support-child-care-providers-and-essential-workers-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2958","title":{"rendered":"TOOTRiS Commits Additional Resources to Support Child Care Providers and Essential Workers During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As California Urges Day Care Centers to Stay Open, TOOTRiS Technology Delivers Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TOOTRiS, a technology enabled service provider that connects parents with high-quality Child Care, today reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that Child Care and early learning programs are fully supported as they provide essential services to our communities.<\/p>\n<p>During the current health crisis, many center-based Child Care programs have had no option but to close, leaving essential workers like nurses, first responders and service workers scrambling to find Child Care alternatives. The Family Child Care providers (\u201cFCCs\u201d) who are still open but struggling to maintain operations are a crucial alternative for essential workers during this unprecedented reality and will be vital to businesses as we emerge from this difficult time. According to a recent NAEYC survey, over a third of California\u2019s Child Care providers stated that they would not survive closing without significant support.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/globally-shared\/downloads\/PDFs\/our-work\/public-policy-advocacy\/state_by_state_child_care_crisis_coronavirus_surveydata.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exceptional situation has mostly forced in-home Family Child Care providers even further into a difficult position,\u201d said Alessandra Lezama, CEO of TOOTRiS. \u201cWe feel a responsibility, now more than ever, to ensure all providers are fully supported and able to operate safely, so that the parents who rely on them have peace-of-mind as they support our critical infrastructure and families reincorporate into the workforce in the immediate future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tynetta F., a San Diego-based active duty military service member and mom was desperate to find immediate care for her infant &amp; toddler after the Child Care center they attended unexpectedly closed due to COVID-19. Tynetta turned to TOOTRiS, and within days she connected, vetted, and enrolled her children into a Safety First-verified TOOTRiS Child Care program. \u201cI could not have done it without TOOTRiS! They provided all of the resources at no cost and were there every step of the way to help me secure a subsidy program and a Child Care provider that accepted subsidies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Q., Director at <a href=\"https:\/\/tootris.com\/ca\/national-city\/adventure-point-early-learning-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adventure Point Early Learning Center<\/a>, said, \u201cTOOTRiS was invaluable in connecting Tynetta\u2019s family to our program in National City. We are so happy we could help and look forward to our continued partnership with TOOTRiS as we work together to place other children into our Safety-First program. They are a great service!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/california\/story\/2020\/03\/18\/california-day-care-centers-still-bustling-while-schoolyards-sit-empty-1267470\">reiterated<\/a> how essential Child Care services are during these trying times. \u201cThe bottom line is we need our Child Care facilities, our daycare centers to operate to absorb the magnitude of the impacts of these school closures.\u201d In direct response, TOOTRiS has launched two financial aid programs to help under-resourced San Diego-based Family Child Care providers and essential workers get through this crisis. The first, <a href=\"https:\/\/tootris.com\/edu\/about\/covid-19-family-child-care-assistance-grants-program\">reimburses<\/a> FCC\u2019s for any COVID-19 related expenses, including staff resources to meet newly imposed teacher to child ratios, cleaning supplies, and other necessary items up to $1,500, through June 30th.\u00a0The second, helps essential workers <a href=\"https:\/\/tootris.com\/edu\/about\/covid-19-ece-scholarship-grant-program\">pay<\/a> for up to $1,500 in Child Care services through June 30th.\u00a0TOOTRiS is also making available Safety-First Kits to FCCs containing some of the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) materials that providers have struggled to source and desperately need to operate their programs safely. These <a href=\"https:\/\/tootris.com\/edu\/about\/covid-19-family-child-care-safety-first-kits\">kits<\/a> are free for FCC\u2019s while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>Complete details for all TOOTRiS support services can be found at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tootris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tootris.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As California Urges Day Care Centers to Stay Open, TOOTRiS Technology Delivers Services TOOTRiS, a technology enabled service provider that connects parents with high-quality Child Care, today reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that Child Care and early learning programs are fully supported as they provide essential services to our communities. 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