Being entrusted with watching over and teaching some of the youngest children in the community is a massive responsibility. It is one the workers in child care centers throughout the Fort Dodge region enthusiastically tackle every day.
The work includes hundreds of interactions with the kids every day. Plus, there is training and continuing education for the child care providers. Piled on top of all that is the need for bookkeeping and maintaining all kinds of other records.
Recent donations from the group Linking Families and Communities will help with the training and recordkeeping parts of the job, and hopefully free up a little more time for the child care workers to spend with the kids.
The non-profit organization donated 37 laptop computers to 12 child care facilities in Calhoun, Pocahontas and Webster counties.
Those machines will obviously be useful for many tasks. And receiving them for free is a real bonus for child care facilities that typically operate with very tight budgets.
“We saw a gap and we’re filling it,” Elizabeth Stanek, the executive director of Linking Families and Communities said to The Messenger.
Utilizing the laptops for online training sessions for the staff appears to be one of the major expected uses of the laptops, Some will also be used for electronic check-in and check-out systems. They will also be used for classes for the kids in the child care centers.
Laptop computers are very handy, but few individuals or groups would likely think of giving some to child care facilities. Linking Families and Communities did so. The group’s gift is unique and it is also invaluable to the child care facilities that received the computers.
Once again Linking Families and Communities has done something to support and improve the quality of child care in the region.
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