Maryland Employer Child Care Toolkit

A Child Care toolkit for Employers

  • The Maryland Employer Child Care Toolkit is designed to help employers understand an array of options to better support the child care needs of employees.
  • Access to child care impacts the ability of employers to recruit and retain employees.
  • Child care challenges impact both employee productivity and employer profitability.

Boost Your Company’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

When it comes to today’s competitive jobs market, recruiting and retaining talented employees is essential for every business. The best way to recruit and retain top talent is by understanding why employees look to leave a job and what policies could foster company loyalty and a culture of respect and engagement that leads to higher productivity.

Investing in family-friendly policies and child care can boost employee morale and job satisfaction, reduce turnover, and increase productivity.

Maryland Statistics

299,416
Children under age 6 in Maryland with working parents
398,460
School-age children (ages 6-12) in Maryland with working parents
79.2%
Working mothers in Maryland with children under age 6
82.2%
Working mothers in Maryland with school-age children (ages 6-14)

About the toolkit

  • expand the availability of child care,
  • promote ways to make child care more affordable, and
  • promote family-friendly workplace policies to help balance the stress between work and family.
Maryland Family Network was formed in 2009 with the merger of two leading nonprofit organizations–Maryland Committee for Children, founded in 1945 to advocate for high quality child care, and Friends of the Family, founded in 1986 to administer Maryland’s network of Family Support Centers. MFN….. 1-2 more sentences here.
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