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Childcare benefits that fit your workforce and your budget.

It's hard to find and keep great employees, especially early in their careers.

Give your company the competitive advantage with the oneCOMMUNITY Shared Cost Childcare Benefit.

 A surprisingly affordable and impactful win-win-win solution for employers, employees and their children.

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Is the childcare crisis really that bad?

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Childcare supply & demand

Kansas childcare supply meets only 44% of demand.

In Sedgwick County, it's 41%.

Childcare supply is falling.

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Childcare's share of a single parent's income.

Average childcare costs are nearly 1/2 of a single parent's income.

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Working parents without childcare at all.

More than 1 in 3 working parents with kids 5 and under have

no childcare arrangement at all.

What does this mean for employers?

Besides creating chaos for working parents, the childcare crisis is hurting the bottom line.

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3 out of 10

3 out of 10 working parents quit their jobs, reduce hours or turn down promotions every year due to childcare issues.

12

Missed Days

Working parents miss an average of 12 workdays per year due to childcare issues.

$3.3B

Cost to Kansas Employers

Lack of affordable childcare is costing Kansas employers up to $3.3 billion.

Employer's Return on Investment

Childcare benefits are a powerful recruiting, retention tool and deliver tremendous ROI.

86%

86% of employees say they're more likely to stay with current employer due to a childcare benefit.

90 - 425%

Employers see a return on investment of 90 - 425% from offering childcare benefits.

Introducing the oneCOMMUNITY
Shared Cost Childcare Benefit

  • Employers and employees share the cost of care, like other benefits.

  • Employers determine the cost share and their maximum investment in a benefit.

  • Employees pay the remaining cost of care at a life-changing discount to market rates.

  • No cost to employers or employees until children receive care.

Brent Lewis

Executive Director

(316) 393-4948

5025 E Kellogg Dr

Wichita, KS 67218

 

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             a 501c3 nonprofit organization

 

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