Quality early childhood education plays a pivotal role in the quality of life and economic health of a community. A lack of childcare options equates to fewer homes sold, fewer children in our schools, and recruiting difficulties for our businesses.
The Innovation Center provides a variety of services to assist communities in addressing their childcare needs and to provide childcare professionals working in the field.
Contact Childcare Program Specialist, Dana Stanton, to learn more about accessing these services.
Childcare Program Specialist, Dana Stanton will provide presentations on the topic of childcare to groups of all sizes. All presentations will include individualized community childcare statistics. For more information about scheduling a presentation for your group or organization, contact Stanton at danajstanton@nwkeici.org.
Description: This general presentation provides a description about the state of childcare (challenges, local solutions) and includes local childcare statistics. This general presentation is perfect for civic groups wanting a general overview of the childcare issue.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: This presentation offers local childcare statistics, examples of how other communities addressed their childcare needs, available resources, and action steps. This presentation is a perfect first step for community groups that want to develop a plan to address their childcare needs.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: This presentation is for school districts wanting more information on operating a childcare facility. The presentation includes local childcare statistics, examples of how other school districts addressed their childcare needs, basic expectations, available resources, and action steps.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: This presentation provides information on how the business community can support their local childcare providers. This presentation is perfect for Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Organizations, and civic groups.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: We can create a customized presentation to provide information about community-level childcare initiatives. This presentation is perfect for community forums and meetings.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Not sure how to tackle your community childcare needs? Childcare Program Specialist Dana Stanton will help your community work together to address childcare needs. Utilizing the Child Care Aware of Kansas Community Childcare Coalition process, Stanton will lead communities through the process to:
Want to apply for a grant to support your childcare project, but don’t have the time or expertise? The Innovation Center provides two contractual childcare grant writers to help with this process.
Grantees (the organization or individual applying for the grant) will work with Childcare Program Specialist Dana Stanton to develop the needed details for their childcare project including a grant budget. Each grantee is responsible for completing a grant information sheet.
The 2025 NWKS Childcare Conference is tentatively scheduled for August 4 & 5. The 2025 conference registration link will be released on December 9, 2025. Check back soon for more details.
The conference is provided at no cost to childcare providers working in licensed facilities (both home and center-based) from the following counties: Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic, Rooks, Russell, Saline Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, Wallace and Washington.
The conference will include 16 hours of KDHE approved training for participants. The 16 hours includes 4 hours of CPR/First Aid.
Meals are provided to participants.
National Childcare Provider Appreciation Day is always celebrated the Friday before Mother’s Day. This page includes resources for communities to plan events to show their appreciation to their local childcare providers.
Quality early childhood education plays a pivotal role in the quality of life and economic health of a community. A lack of childcare options equates to fewer homes sold, fewer children in our schools, and recruiting difficulties for our businesses.
The Innovation Center provides a variety of services to assist communities in addressing their childcare needs and to provide childcare professionals working in the field.
Contact Childcare Program Specialist, Dana Stanton, to learn more about accessing these services.
Childcare Program Specialist, Dana Stanton will provide presentations on the topic of childcare to groups of all sizes. All presentations will include individualized community childcare statistics. For more information about scheduling a presentation for your group or organization, contact Stanton at danajstanton@nwkeici.org.
Description: This general presentation provides a description about the state of childcare (challenges, local solutions) and includes local childcare statistics. This general presentation is perfect for civic groups wanting a general overview of the childcare issue.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: This presentation offers local childcare statistics, examples of how other communities addressed their childcare needs, available resources, and action steps. This presentation is a perfect first step for community groups that want to develop a plan to address their childcare needs.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: This presentation is for school districts wanting more information on operating a childcare facility. The presentation includes local childcare statistics, examples of how other school districts addressed their childcare needs, basic expectations, available resources, and action steps.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: This presentation provides information on how the business community can support their local childcare providers. This presentation is perfect for Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Organizations, and civic groups.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Description: We can create a customized presentation to provide information about community-level childcare initiatives. This presentation is perfect for community forums and meetings.
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes.
Not sure how to tackle your community childcare needs? Childcare Program Specialist Dana Stanton will help your community work together to address childcare needs. Utilizing the Child Care Aware of Kansas Community Childcare Coalition process, Stanton will lead communities through the process to:
Want to apply for a grant to support your childcare project, but don’t have the time or expertise? The Innovation Center provides two contractual childcare grant writers to help with this process.
Grantees (the organization or individual applying for the grant) will work with Childcare Program Specialist Dana Stanton to develop the needed details for their childcare project including a grant budget. Each grantee is responsible for completing a grant information sheet.
The 2025 NWKS Childcare Conference is tentatively scheduled for August 4 & 5. The 2025 conference registration link will be released on December 9, 2025. Check back soon for more details.
The conference is provided at no cost to childcare providers working in licensed facilities (both home and center-based) from the following counties: Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic, Rooks, Russell, Saline Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, Wallace and Washington.
The conference will include 16 hours of KDHE approved training for participants. The 16 hours includes 4 hours of CPR/First Aid.
Meals are provided to participants.
The conference registration is capped at 140 slots. Slots are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information on the conference, please contact Childcare Program Specialist, Dana Stanton at danajstanton@nwkeici.org.
National Childcare Provider Appreciation Day is always celebrated the Friday before Mother’s Day. This page includes resources for communities to plan events to show their appreciation to their local childcare providers.
The Kansas Housing Cooperative Program is on its way to helping families build new homes in Northwest Kansas. Stay tuned as we finalize the details of this exciting initiative. Check back soon for more information!
