Elevate your benefits package with child care solutions
that support your workforce and their families.
As San Diego’s leading child care experts with over 40 years of expertise, YMCA Childcare Resource Service can offer your organization free assistance with:
The child care crisis in America affects all of us, but especially businesses. When working parents don’t have proper child care, they can’t operate at their full potential, and employers lose out on highly valuable talent.
With 1 in 3 employees balancing parenthood and work, providing child care benefits is a smart investment that is proven to:
Enhance Employee Morale and Well-BeingBoost Productivity and PresenceAttract and Retain Top TalentImprove Job Satisfaction and Career Progression
Partner with the Y to design a program that supports your workforce and their families.
Child Care Needs Survey: We can help you conduct a survey to better understand your employees’ current child care needs. This valuable information helps guide future investments in child care benefits and enhances the overall understanding of child care demand within our community. Learn more.
Dedicated Child Care Navigators: Your employees receive personalized support throughout their child care search from our navigators. We can answer questions, check availability, and provide tools for selecting the best care options.
Online Referrals: Your employees can access the only local, comprehensive database of all licensed child care providers in San Diego County. This database can be integrated into your internal employee website for easy access. Get started.
Application Assistance: We help your employees navigate the application process for state-funded child care payment assistance, regardless of their chosen child care setting. Learn more about the application process.
Customized Financial Support: Explore opportunities to create employer spend accounts to help your employees manage child care costs.
On-Site Child Care Programs: Explore the possibility of establishing on-site licensed child care at your workplace through partnerships with organizations like SAY San Diego.
It's a program designed to support employers provide child care benefits to their employees, including assistance with finding and paying for child care.
Schedule an appointment with our representative to learn more about our offerings and how we can enhance your organization’s benefits package. You can book a free consultation with a Y representative or arrange for our team to present partnership opportunities to your team.
Employees receive personalized, one-on-one support from a dedicated child care navigator, access to our online referral system, and help with applying for state-funded financial assistance if eligible.
Once we establish our Partnership, we will provide your HR team a detailed benefits package that includes contact information and step-by-step instructions on how to get started with finding and paying for child care.
We offer application assistance for state-funded child care payment programs. We can also work with you to create customized financial support packages or spend accounts to help your employees cover the cost of child care.
Our employer partnership services are free, but there may be costs associated with decisions to invest in on-site child care programs or customized financial support packages.
The Child Care Needs Survey assesses the current child care needs of your workforce. The insights gained can inform your organization’s child care benefits package and contribute to a dataset documenting child care demand throughout San Diego County. This survey is developed and implemented by the BEACON Project, an innovative collaboration among prominent San Diego regional partners: SAY San Diego, UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies (DES), UC San Diego Child Development Center, and YMCA of San Diego County (YMCA).
