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.
Erie County Investing in Families Phase I—Educator Retention Awards
By investing in educator retention awards, Erie County is stabilizing the child care workforce, reducing teacher attrition, and expanding access to quality early learning for working families across the region.
Catherine Hershey Schools
for Early Learning
With 72% of eligible young children in Pennsylvania not receiving subsidized care, Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning stepped in to meet the urgent need for accessible, high-quality early care.
Children's Village Expands the ECE Workforce
Children's Village in Philadelphia addresses the early care and education workforce crisis by partnering with workforce development organizations, offering paid training, and creating sustainable solutions for recruitment and retention.
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.
CAI Business Investment Creates Learning Academy
Based in Allentown with a global footprint, technology services firm CAI takes an entrepreneurial approach to expanding high-quality early learning and creating a continuum of educational quality.
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.