Wausau Child Care Inc

Wausau child care participates in other miscellaneous programs. The dpi cacfp (child and adult care food program) provides assistance with grocery costs in our preschool and summer school-age programs throughout the year, enabling us to serve 3 quality meals/day. The organization collaborates with the two area school districts to provide 4k programs in each of our two preschool centers during the school year. We served approx. 275 children in 2023-2024.

Wausau child care receives and accepts parents who qualify for the wisconsin shares child care assistance program. This program is for low income families who want to send their children to high quality, licensed child care but would not otherwise be able to afford it. An estimated 25 children were served in this fiscal year ending 6/30/24. We also maintained our naeyc accreditation which entitles us to a 25% increase in child care subsidies through the state for our preschool locations.

The sliding fee program provided tuition assistance to 5 children within wausau child care that do not qualify for the wisconsin shares but would not otherwise be able to afford quality care or for those going through a personal tragedy, death or illness. Effective january 1, 2014 united way funds are now allocated through the marathon county childcaring organization. Childcaring receives the annual funding and disperses it among youngstar rated (3-5 star) family and childcare providers within marathon county. Youngstar is a rated program utilized through the state of wisconsin w2 childcare program. Families must apply every 6 months and the applications are accepted as the first ones arriving u.s. Mail. Families may qualify for only 6 months if their application isn't received in time for the next 6 month review.