2025
2024
June: Lawmakers, parents and child care providers advocate for Universal Childcare System - WKBW
April: Daycare drought impacting parents in Niagara County - WKBW
March: Status of child care in NYS report to be released - Niagara Frontier Publications
January: Another Voice: Access to affordable child care is urgently needed by New York's working women - The Buffalo News
2023
December: Governor Hochul announces new initiatives to address critical childcare shortages - WKBW
October: WNY Women's Foundation Releases Study on Child Care Shortage Around the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus - Press Release
February: Child Care Concerns - Town Hall Segment
2022
November: Child Care: What are the Issues and How Can We Support Solutions? - Ask A Better Question podcast
November: Traversing the 'child care desert' - The Echo (United University Professions)
September: Childcare crisis: what's being done to improve wages - WKBW-TV, Channel 7
May: Search continues for a sustainable child care funding solution - WGRZ-TV, Channel 2
May: Rally focusing on child care crisis - WKBW-TV, Channel 7
April: State budget funding to improve child care crisis - WKBW-TV, Channel 7
2021
September: Daycares struggle to rebound from pandemic - WKBW Channel 7
July: New affordable childcare pilot program launches in Western New York - Spectrum News
June: Childcare businesses forced to close, still waiting for CARES Act funding - WKBW Channel 7
June: Western New York child care post-pandemic: what parents need to know - WKBW Channel 7
May: Think your workers are coming back to the office? Not if they can't find childcare. - Buffalo Business First
May: Concerns over high demand childcare impacting the workforce - WGRZ Channel 2
2020
December: Women leaving the workforce to care for children at home - WKBW Channel 7
November: Families shifting back to remote & child care dilemma - WKBW Channel 7
September WNYWF Newsletter: Securing Child Care Support for Working Mothers
August: As Buffalo schools go remote, the need for affordable childcare increases - WKBW Channel 7
July: Child care providers face challenges before they reopen - WKBW Channel 7
July: Pandemic forces closure of 39-50% of daycares in Western New York - WKBW Channel 7
July: "This is an explosive situation" Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul on child care and the pandemic - WKBW Channel 7
May: From 'crisis' to 'decimation': What happens when a pandemic hits child care - WBFO (NPR)
April: Daycare scholarships available for children of essential workers - Olean Times Herald
March: Finding childcare for kids home from school - WKBW Channel 7
February: Money available through Erie County to help pay for daycare - WKBW Channel 7
January: New daycare built to help staffers at Niagara Lutheran Health System - WKBW Channel 7
January: State task force looking to Quebec for help solving daycare crisis - WKBW Channel 7
January: Did Governor Cuomo ignore child care in the Executive Budget? - WKBW Channel 7