Best Beginning for a Ready Workforce
What businesses can do to support school readiness, young children, and families
- Sponsor parent education classes
- Provide information regarding child care and other family services
- Offer flex time benefits for employees
- Provide on-site child care
- Support early child care and education legislation
- Provide child care scholarships
- Create partnerships with local schools
- Provide flexible options for parents with sick children
- Build consortiums of businesses to work together on early childhood issues
- Support the expansion of early care and education programs, Head Starts, etc.
- Encourage and support employee volunteering
- Provide part-time employee volunteering
- Provide part-time employees with a regular work schedule
- Allow employees to bring their babies to work
- Accommodate breastfeeding mothers
- Permit employees to work at home when possible/necessary
- Become involved with existing programs
- Create job sharing opportunities
- Promote philanthropic investment in early child care and education
- Supply space to the community for meetings
- Set up pre-tax spending accounts for employees that can be used for child care
- Donate goods and services
- Ask your employees and co-workers how you can support them and their families
For more information about School Readiness, please contact:
Mary Jane Standaert
(406) 444-0589
or
Patty Butler
(406) 444-1828
