Employer Case Studies
Most Pennsylvania employers want to help working families address child care needs, but few realize that resources are available to help. These case studies explore successful initiatives, created with available resources in the Business Toolkit, that were custom-crafted to meet local child care needs for communities and workforces. We encourage you to use these examples as a model to inspire your own approach and explore practical solutions that will benefit your business and workforce.
Keystone Scholars: PA Treasury Funds Early Scholarship Accounts for all PA children
With the launch of Keystone Scholars in 2019, Pennsylvania became the first state in the nation to enact legislation that provides a universal, automatic, at-birth deposit of $100 into scholarship accounts for EVERY child born to Pennsylvania residents...
HACP & The ABK Collaborative
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh offers programs that help residents build job skills, but HACP discovered a problem. For parents working nontraditional hours or looking for new jobs, lack of access to child care created a barrier to participation. That gap inspired creation of the ABK Collaborative.
Berks County ECE Train & Retain Program
A great number of children start school deficient in key language, literacy, pre-math, and socio & emotional skills. In Berks County, over 40% of third graders cannot read proficiently, and in Reading, the average is significantly higher.
Benco Dental Supporting Quality ECE in Luzerne County
Benco Dental's commitment to early education and family support extends from its workplace policies to its long-standing partnership with Luzerne County Head Start, providing resources, scholarships, and volunteer efforts to strengthen children's futures.
York County Early Childhood Educator Awards
For three decades, the business and civic communities of York County have partnered to make quality early childhood education a priority for building York's current and future workforce. In 2022, they launched the York County Early Childhood Educator Awards.
Families need quality child care to work. Employers need quality child care to ensure their workforce needs are met.
To learn how your business can join the movement to invest in caring, contact the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission at info@paearlylearning.com.