SAN DIEGO, Nov. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Child Care is an ongoing problem for student-parents. Having skilled a big drop in feminine scholar enrollment on account of Child Care points, MiraCosta College Technology Career Institute in San Diego determined to transcend simply providing on-site care and be the first school in the nation to supply a versatile Child Care profit from TOOTRiS.
MiraCosta’s distinctive accelerated studying packages place college students for profession development; nonetheless, in latest years, Child Care has created a barrier for feminine college students to enroll. To resolve the problem, MiraCosta College has chosen TOOTRiS to supply cutting-edge Child Care advantages to all its TCI college students.
Under the partnership, TOOTRiS will present MiraCosta entry to the largest community of licensed Child Care suppliers, enabling student-parents to look, vet, evaluate, and enroll in actual time. The know-how platform additionally permits them to seek out slots for non permanent care, drop-ins, and non-traditional work schedules. This supplies vital worth for college kids who’ve broadly various schedules.
“Our goal is to provide the quickest way for students to go from learning to earning,” stated Linda Kurokawa, Executive Director of MiraCosta College. “Our 3-6 month accelerated learning programs provide a lot of flexibility; however, post-pandemic we are still seeing student-parents — especially the female population — struggle to come back to those programs due to Child Care issues. Partnering with TOOTRiS helps us solve that problem by providing students with the most affordable Child Care options that fit their specific needs.”
MiraCosta will not be alone on the subject of challenges for college kids with kids. According to estimates by National Center for Education Statistics, greater than one-fifth of all school college students are student-parents. That’s almost 4 million school college students with kids who’re attempting to steadiness taking lessons and learning whereas holding part-time or full-time jobs, in addition to offering the day-to-day care and help their youngsters require.
Sadly, in line with CalMatters, greater than half will drop out earlier than attaining a level. Colleges and universities want to seek out methods to help these hard-working college students and make it potential for them to succeed.
“Costs and access to Child Care have always been the biggest hurdles for student-parents, and until now, colleges and universities have had limited options — such as on-site care — which only serves a few students and has long waitlists,” stated Alessandra Lezama, TOOTRiS CEO and a choose member of the ReadyNation CEO Task Force on Early Childhood. “With TOOTRiS, public and private higher education institutions like MiraCosta are now able to offer their entire population of student-parents and faculty real-time access to affordable care at a fraction of the cost of other options.”
MiraCosta College Technology Career Institute is taking a robust management place to cut back the boundaries dealing with its student-parents. But with many student-parents throughout the nation being single, feminine, college students of colour, and from low-income backgrounds, extra increased schooling leaders, in addition to federal and state policymakers, want to handle the problem.
About TOOTRiS
TOOTRiS is the first and solely common Child Care platform that converges non-public and public Child Care stakeholders — Family Child Care Homes and Center-Based Providers, Parents, Agencies, and Employers — right into a unified, real-time know-how platform enabling employers and better schooling establishments to supply turnkey Child Care Benefits to their workforce and scholar populations with the flexibility and household help paramount to rising retention, productiveness, and ROI. Visit tootris.com/employers for data.
About MiraCosta College
For greater than 80 years, the MiraCosta Community College District has served college students all through North County with a wide selection of academic choices on a number of campuses. The school has greater than 19,000 credit score college students yearly in over 70 disciplines enrolled in affiliate levels, college switch and workforce readiness certificates packages. There are additionally about 7,000 college students who participate in packages for grownup schooling, group schooling, fundamental expertise and ESL (English as a Second Language). The school is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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