Second Period Applications Open Today
(MADISON) – The Department of Children and Families (DCF) awarded just over $32 million to 2,367 early care and education providers through the first period of the Child Care Counts: COVID-19 Emergency Payment Program.
The department estimated demand from eligible child care providers and set maximum amounts for the payment criteria according to those estimates.
The Child Care Counts: COVID-19 Emergency Payment Program is broken into three smaller programs targeted at the most common circumstances early care and education providers are facing in the wake of the public health emergency.
Incentive Pay – $5.38 million for period one
The Incentive Pay program provides additional wages for child care providers and individual educators.
Support for Temporarily Closed Child Care Programs – $2.41 million for period one
To assist providers who were forced to close, this program helps defray costs associated with retaining staff and reopening child care programs as Wisconsin’s workforce returns to work.
