Child Care Support Services for Moms in Nontraditional Occupational Training October 13, 2017 Presented by: Carol Burnett, Executive Director of Moore Community House and the MS Low Income Child Care Initiative

The MLICCI/MCH WinC Model … In Mississippi one of our major workforce challenges revealed by our state WIOA implementation team is the lack of affordable child care as a major barrier to employment for low income single moms Moore Community House Women in Construction (MCH WinC) is working to address this challenge with an integrated, innovative program design enabled by the Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) Department of Labor grant coupled with funds awarded from our state’s federal TANF welfare grant MCH WinC couples nontraditional job training with child care assistance to enable low-income mothers to participate and succeed

Who do we serve? Single moms with young children Half MS children live in single-parent (mostly moms) families 70% of these children are poor Single moms who work but remain poor Women make up half the MS workforce, but 2/3 of the state’s minimum wage workers. Minimum wage leaves a family of 2 below the federal poverty level. Often victims of domestic violence

Single Moms in MS Work, but are Stuck in Low-Wage Jobs

Training Must Disrupt Patterns of Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Disparity

A selected example of Traditional versus Nontraditional Work for Women in Mississippi Office/Administrative Support Occupations in MS employ 88,000 women full-time, year-round (77% of workers) Earning $28,600 Construction/Extraction Occupations in MS Employ 1,220 women full-time, year-round (2% of workers) Earning $40,652

CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE REDUCES CHILD CARE COSTS FOR MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES

Child Care Assistance Reaches Too Few Working Families Source: MLICCI calculations of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services data, MS Department of Education data, National Center for Children in Poverty, 2015 American Community Survey 1-year data

The MLICCI/MCH WinC Partnership Combines: Child Care: Innovative use of TANF Block Grant funding, DoL job training support, WinC is able to focus on providing real child care to participants throughout training, job search and initial employment, in addition to other work supports unique to student needs Nontraditional Training: Prepares women to enter the high growth, higher-paying advanced manufacturing industry, with a focus on the construction skill craft and shipbuilding trades, through providing career and technical training in careers such as welding, pipefitting, ship-fitting and electrical

A Practical Guide to Child Care as a Work Support Target recruitment to moms Gather information on child care options in your service area Gather and share child care consumer information with your mom participants Identify financial assistance to help your mom participants Employ a child care case manager Develop agreements with child care providers serving your moms Remember your training participant is also a mom.

For More Information Visit: www.moorecommunityhouse.org www.mschildcare.org A copy of our practical guide to including child care as a support service is available here: www.moorecommunityhouse.org/childcareguide

You can find a copy of this policy brief here: http://www. mschildcare

Thank you!