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Friday is Child Care Provider Appreciation Day
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Posted on May 10 2006
Gov. Benigno R. Fitial signed a proclamation Monday designating this Friday, May 12, as Child Care Provider Appreciation Day.
Officers and representatives from the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Child Licensing Program and Public School System Child Care Program and other organizations that provide childcare witnessed the proclamation signing held at the Governor’s Office on Capitol Hill.
“I want to thank the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs for supporting Child Care Provider Appreciation Day on May 12, 2006. I especially appreciate the efforts of the DCCA Child Licensing Program and the Public School System’s Child Care Program,” said the governor.
Fitial said he’s begun to appreciate how difficult the job of child care providers are “and I think it is only fitting and proper that we take this time to duly recognize the hard work they provide to children and their parents.”
According to the proclamation documents, of the 21 million children under the age six in America, 13 million are at least in part-time child care. An additional 24 million school-age children are in some form of child care outside of school time.
“With both parents usually working to earn a living and to support their children, child care providers have become indispensable to many families, especially struggling single-parent families,” Fitial said.
DCCA Secretary Daisy Villagomez-Bier and PSS associate commissioner for administrative services David M. Borja gave brief remarks during the proclamation signing.
