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In 2009, there were 1,456 full-timechild care centers offering 100,780child care slots during the full yearor school year, as well as 19,225full-time slots during the summermonths. Child care centers offeredmore than half of the total knownfull and school-year capacity inCook County.As of June 2009, DCFS had listed3,946 licensed family and groupchild care homes in Cook Countywith slots for 36,383 children. Eachprovider was licensed to care foran average of 7.4 children duringthe day, not including up to fouradditional school age children theymay be licensed to care for duringout-of-school time. However, onlyproviders with assistants can carefor more than eight children atone time. 10The tables also indicate the numberof known license-exempt homeproviders and their available slots.As mentioned, license-exempt homeproviders are a much more elusivegroup to gather statistics on. NeitherDCFS nor the Illinois Action forChildren Resource and ReferralProgram has significant informationon license-exempt home providers,although we learn more aboutthis group every year through theResource and Referral Program.We know most about those licenseexempthome providers who receivepayments from CCAP for providingchild care to low-income workingfamilies, so those are the ones wereport on here.In 2009, some 34,600 Cook Countylicense-exempt home providersreceived CCAP payments during atleast one month of the year, thoughfewer participate at any one time.In June 2009, there were 17,451license-exempt home child careproviders receiving CCAP payments.Home providers who have licenseexemptstatus may legally care foras many as three children who arenot their own. 11 While we provisionallyestimate 52,353 slots in knownlicense-exempt homes in Table II-2,the reader should be aware thatmany, though not all, license-exempthome providers do not offer childcare slots in the same way thatcenters and licensed homes do.Instead, many are relatives, neighborsor family friends who chooseto care for particular children forparticular periods of time rather thanoffer care to any child as part ofan ongoing business.B.WHERE ARE THEPROVIDERS AND SLOTS?Some parents will have a moredifficult time finding child carebecause of where they live. The120,005 spaces in child carecenters are almost evenly dividedbetween Chicago and suburbanCook County, though there aresome differences. School ageprograms are more abundant,or at least better reported, in thesuburbs, while summer-onlyprograms are more abundant,or better reported, in Chicago.Two-thirds of the 36,383 licensedhome spaces are located inChicago. Table II-3 shows howcenter and licensed home slotsare distributed throughout theregions of Cook County.Table II-4 presents the distributionof the 52,353 known license-exempthome slots. Again, these datarepresent only a portion of theactual number of license-exempthome providers—those servingfamilies using CCAP. We know,however, that license-exempt careis used widely across all incomes.Seventy-eight (78) percent of thelicense-exempt home providers15
The 2010 Report of Child Care in Cook CountyTable II-3. Full-Time and School Age Child Care Slots inCook County RegionsIncludes daytime slots only.Source: Illinois Action for Children Resource and Referral Program and DCFS, June 2009N & NW West S & SWN & NW C & W S & SW Suburban Suburban SuburbanProgram Type Chicago Chicago Chicago Cook Cook CookChild Care Centers 11,625 12,116 19,228 18,610 7,738 17,026School Age Only Programs 1,676 1,487 2,005 6,056 1,128 2,085Summer Only Programs 3,700 3,115 6,735 3,177 665 1,833Licensed Homes 2,977 4,658 11,950 1,793 2,566 5,405Licensed Homes—additional school age slots 809 1,122 3,127 266 580 1,130Total Center andLicensed Home Slots 20,787 22,498 43,045 29,902 12,677 27,479Total Slots as a Percentof Children Under Age 13 12% 17% 17% 14% 13% 18%Table II-4. License-Exempt Home Child Care SlotsSource: Illinois Child Care Assistance Program, June 2009N & NW West S & SWN & NW C & W S & SW Suburban Suburban SuburbanProgram Type Chicago Chicago Chicago Cook Cook CookTotal 3,366 13,071 24,306 1,218 2,835 7,557Home of Non-Relative 621 2,097 3,879 228 459 1,314Relative’s Home 1,275 5,349 9,774 477 1,233 3,159Non-Relative in Child’s Home 558 2,442 4,662 183 411 1,272Relative in Child’s Home 912 3,183 5,991 330 732 1,812participating in CCAP are locatedin Chicago. The table shows thenumerical concentration of theseslots in Chicago’s South and South -western and Central and West regions,mirroring the distribution of lowincomefamilies who are eligible forCCAP. Of the suburban licenseexempthome slots, 65 percent fallwithin the South and Southwesternsuburban region.License-exempt home care canbe broken down further into careprovided by relatives versus nonrelativesand care provided in thechild’s home versus the provider’shome. Table II-4 shows the distributionof these four types of licenseexempthome care for the sixCook County regions.Maps 1 and 2 show how centerand licensed home slots addedtogether are spread among theindividual communities of CookCounty. License-exempt home slotsare not included here because thedata we have provide only a portionof a widely unknown supply andbecause the supply of licenseexempthome care is more variablethan licensed care as we explainedearlier in this section. 12 Whileproviders have more child careslots in Chicago than in suburbanCook County overall, the numberof slots varies substantially inindividual suburban communitiesand Chicago neighborhoods.16
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Page 4: ContentsExecutive Summary . . . . .
Page 8 and 9: I N T R O D U C T I O NFamilies and
Page 10 and 11: IntroductionGABRIELLE AND SHAWN HAR
Page 12 and 13: B.TRENDS IN CHILDCARE RATESLike mos
Page 14 and 15: I. Family Dilemma: Child Care Affor
Page 22 and 23: II. Family Dilemma: Access to Avail
Page 24 and 25: II. Family Dilemma: Access to Avail
Page 26 and 27: III. Family Dilemma: Finding Child
Page 28 and 29: IV. Family Dilemma:Finding the Righ
Page 30 and 31: V. Public Dilemma: Who Needs ChildC
Page 32 and 33: V. Public Dilemma: Who Needs Child
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Page 36: ConclusionFinding the right child c
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