{"id":5488,"date":"2023-09-11T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:40:56","slug":"staff-recruitment-funds-available-to-new-york-state-child-care-programs-have-doubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/staff-recruitment-funds-available-to-new-york-state-child-care-programs-have-doubled\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff recruitment funds available to New York State child care programs have doubled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Office of Children and Family Services has <strong>DOUBLED <\/strong>the amount of grant funding available to eligible New York State child care programs through the <a href=\"https:\/\/ocfs.ny.gov\/programs\/childcare\/grants\/workforce-grant\/\">Workforce Retention Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligible day care centers, group day cares and school-age child care programs can <strong>now receive $12,000<\/strong> for their programs to recruit new staff and offer longevity bonuses to eligible employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Licensed group family day care homes will receive $4,000; registered family day care homes will receive $2,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background\" href=\"\" style=\"background-color:#84a740;color:#ffffff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Join OCFS for an upcoming webinar to learn more about the Workforce Retention Grant, see a demo of how to complete an application and get your questions answered. <a href=\"https:\/\/ocfs.ny.gov\/programs\/childcare\/grants\/workforce-grant\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ocfs.ny.gov\/programs\/childcare\/grants\/workforce-grant\/assets\/docs\/Providers-FAQ.en.pdf\">Read the OCFS FAQ<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/ocfs.ny.gov\/programs\/childcare\/grants\/workforce-grant\/assets\/docs\/Providers-FAQ.es.pdf\">Preguntas Frecuentes<\/a><\/li><li>Contact your local <a href=\"https:\/\/ocfs.ny.gov\/programs\/childcare\/referral-agencies.php\">Child Care Resource and Referral agency<\/a> (CCR&amp;R) or call the Workforce Retention Grant Hotline at <a href=\"tel:833-791-2743\">833-791-2743<\/a>, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Children and Family Services has DOUBLED the amount of grant funding available to eligible New York State child care programs through the Workforce Retention Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13588,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"initiatives":[123,120],"audiences":[126],"organizations":[127],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}