National Emergency Child Care Network is responding to Tropical Storm Helene. All support is free to families in need.
IN THE LAST 30 DAYS (11/15/24): Our incredible child care volunteers have provided 370 hours of free emergency child care to 45 families with 50 children. We have deployed 34 emergency child care volunteers on 13 deployments. We have over 250 volunteers registered, of which 63 have completed the full training and vetting process to become trauma-informed emergency child care volunteers. In one deployment, we are providing emergency child care for the teacher’s kiddos at (4) Asheville elementary schools so the teachers can get back into the classroom and the students can go back to school. For another deployment, we have helped a single mom of 4 young children with three days of free child care. As I say, we are making the impossible possible!
Our volunteers are supporting the long-term recovery in the following ways.
- Volunteer for 4-8 hour shifts per day to help families in their home or at temporary locations such as Airbnbs or hotels if they are displaced due to the disaster.
- Volunteer at schools, child care centers and home-based child care centers who are opening their doors to displaced children.
- Foster residential stays at their home for displaced children for short periods of time, such as 3 days, 5 days or 7 days to bring relief to families.
- Volunteer at pop-up daycares/childcares for children who have no child care and have been impacted by the disaster.
- Working with companies to help their employees with childcare impacted by the disaster.
