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• Support for Oregon's Community Development Corporations
• Resident Services
  Demonstration Project

  Child Care Project

  Resources, Training, and Technical Assistance
• Policy and Advocacy
• Human Capital Development, Training and TA
• Asset Building through IDAs

Child Care

Child care is a vexing problem for most lower-income families. The cost of care is often equal to a paycheck, and the combination of housing and child care expenses leaves many families with a household budget deficit. When families do find affordable care, it can be at the expense of quality and safety. Without stable, quality care, children are often not ready to learn when they reach school age and parents may not be as successful in the work place.

 It is estimated that over 30,000 people live in CDC developed affordable housing. As Oregon’s CDCs work with their residents, they find that access to affordable, quality child care is essential to both the health of the families and the stability of CDC housing. Without stable employment, residents risk eviction and potential homelessness and CDCs risk a high turnover rate. In response to these needs, NPF’s Resident Services Project includes a targeted child care initiative linking community development and child care. 

Through this initiative, NPF focuses on building organizational capacity to develop or enhance child care initiatives in their community for a small number of resident service grantees.  In addition, we work with CDC developers to assist them in incorporating child care facilities and small businesses in their housing projects. To supplement this work, we have conducted research on incorporating small child care units into larger affordable housing projects.