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Thursdav. October 26, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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KU referral center awaits money Hayden announces state's advances in child and family care
Bv Kate Lee
Kansan staff writer
When Gov. Mike Hayden announced plans for a new Office of Children and Families, a joint committee of classified and unclassified employees at KU waited to find out about financing for its proposed child care resource and referral center.
The new office is a result of work last year by the governor's Commission of Children and Families, said Mr. Hayden. Hayden's deputy press secretary.
The KU committee was formed after a 1988 survey of classified employees showed substantial concern about child care, said Cindy Riling, president of Classified Senate.
"The committee had several options," Riling said. "We do know that we have excellent child care but that it is not meeting the need.
Kathleen Brady-Mowrey, assistant to the grant coordinator at the institute for public policy and business resources, said the center would serve as a clearinghouse for information about child care facilities that had openings for children.
"We did not want to re-fight any battles in trying to start another day care center. The resource and referral center will be a way to keep better demographics and still provide a service."
She said the committee had
received a commitment from the University for partial financing for the center. The committee also has applied for funding through the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and is waiting to hear if it will be financed.
repositions, the office will serve as the coordination point for state agencies in applying for grants to fund programs consistent with the purposes of the office."
Martha Langley, assistant director and financial administrator at the
We did not want to re-fight any battles in trying to start another day care center. The resource and referral center will be a way to keep better demographics and still provide a service.'
Cindy Riling
Classified Senate president
Brady-Mowrey said the KU service would begin as a service for members of the University community.
"We hope to expand and embrace the Lawrence community as well," she
In a statement released Monday, Hayden said the state had made advances in the area of child care by strengthening support for foster care, nutritional programs, child abuse laws and the establishment of a routine. Coordination of these efforts will be one of the focuses of the office.
"Another key mission of this office will be to explore additional solutions to the problems of child care, child welfare, family preservation and economic security for families," Hayden said. "In carrying out these
Hilltop Child Development Center, said there was a great need for additional child care.
Langley said there were currently 156 children enrolled at the center and 141 names on a waiting list. In fall 1990, 85 children waiting to enter in fall 1990.
Children at the center must be at least one year old on or before Sept. 1 of the academic year to be considered for admittance, she said.
Langley said the resource and referral center would be of help to parents, but only if there were facilities available.
"There is not a glut," she said.
"The problem is there are no places for them. There is a great need for additional care, especially for children under the age of two and a
half."
Riling said the committee could not find any centers, such as the one it proposed, on any other university campuses. She said committee members visited the Day Care Connection, a resource and referral center in Overland Park, to find information about such centers.
The Day Care Connection helps parents seeking in-home care providers, said Marcie Fallik, referral specialist at the agency.
A home care provider is someone who provides child care in a home setting as opposed to a child care center, she said.
She said the agency had been very successful in its eight years of operation.
Fallik said there were more than 900 home care providers listed in its computers. The providers are listed by their proximity to a major intersection, phone number and the age of children they will accept.
Fallik said the agency would give out only information to parents on how their children were treated.
Riling said she hoped that the move by Hayden was not just a political move.
"I hope he does some real things," she said. "There was a survey done when Carlin was in office, and the results were available after Hayden got into office. He didn't do anything with those."
"It's really encouraging that he's doing something."
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