CCCC is the host agency for the Local Investment in Child Care (LINCC), a project designed to respond to the shortage of quality, licensed child care spaces in Kern County. Kern LINCC’s larger goal, as one of eleven sites in California funded by the Affordable Buildings for Children’s Development (ABCD) Constructing Connections program, is to streamline the local system for developing and financing child care facilities.

Child Care Shortage

Kern LINCC estimates a shortage of 20,000 quality licensed child care spaces in Kern County through 2015. This means that approximately 85 new child care centers and/or school programs need to be developed together with approximately 1,000 family child care homes in order to reach a steady state of child care supply and demand by 2015.

First Step To Bringing More Child Care To Your Community

Kern LINCC is working with Kern County and its 11 cities to include supportive child care policies in their General Plans. Sample general plan language from collaborative public meetings is being presented to all cities in Kern County and the County of Kern to make quality child care facilities an integral part of community and economic development.

Cities On Board With Child Care
Delano and Taft have amended their General Plans to include child care policies. New developments in excess of 50 homes and 50,000 square feet of commercial/industrial floor space are required to assess and address their impact on existing child care resources. Shafter and McFarland are in process of doing likewise, and there is good dialogue in process for Metro Bakersfield.

Here’s What Else We’re Doing
The Kern LINCC Constructing Connections project continues to systematically call on cities and Kern County to advocate for supportive child care policies. Additionally, through collaboration we are streamlining the process by which child care facilities are developed and financed locally. A Financing Task Force has identified barriers to financing and is looking at ways to dismantle them.
Thank you for your help in closing the gap between child care supply and demand in Kern County!

New Reports Available:

Economic Impact Report 2008 Executive Summary EIR 2009 Executive Summary    
Key findings of the impact of the Early Childhood Education industry on the Kern County economy in 2008.
Child Care Economic Impact Report 2008 Update  Kern LINCC Project Report 9-09
The purpose of this report is to quantify the economic impact of the early childhood care and education industry in Kern County.  Millions of dollars are spent directly for child care by working families and millions are contributed by government subsidy programs.  Additionally, thousands of people are employed directly or indirectly by the child care industry.  This report provides local data which supports the ideal that the early childhood education field is a critical part of the County's infrastructure.    
Kern LINCC Construction Connections Project 1997 to 2009: 12 years of Diligence Doubles Quality Child Care Options  EIR Report 2008
This narrative outlines the story of how Kern County dramatically increased child care capacity between 1997 and 2009.

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What Is Required For A Career In Early Care & Education?
Learn About "Careers in Early Care & Education"

About Us
Kern LINCC's mission is to streamline the local process by which child care facilities are developed and financed. ...Services and resources that help bring more child care to your community.

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