Childcare is in high demand. This has the state stepping in with financial grants to help centers expand. Problem is, providers face long delays in getting the money.
To help meet the demand, she was awarded $1 million from the California Department of Social Services' General Child Care and Development program funds.“I applied for the funding and they gave it to us but there was such a hold up on receiving the funding,” Boles said. “In order to open the infant and toddler area we took out multiple loans, business and personal loans to get it started in order for us to meet the demands of child care in this area.
Boles isn't alone. The state awarded more than $30 million in grants to seven child care businesses in San Diego County in fiscal 2021. Several of those businesses told KPBS they also experienced delays and haven’t received all the money yet.To get the rest, they must meet a long list of conditions in their contracts, including filing reports and providing detailed information. If they don’t, that funding goes back to the state.
In the last fiscal year, California awarded San Diego area child care businesses more than $110 million, but almost 10% of that went unspent. Those funds would have created an additional 946 childcare slots.“We found out it was not a grant, it was actually a contract that we have to meet deadlines, we have to have income qualifications for parents that are accepted into that program, our ratios had to be lower in the infant program,” she said.
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