NGage has been committed to creating partnerships to address childcare availability and affordability, allowing the workforce in Gage County to be utilized at full capacity in their strategic planning.
Erin Chadwick said work on this strategy began years ago.
“In 2021, when I worked for NGage full-time, the former director applied for a Communities for Kids (C4K) Initiative,” she said. “It’s a program funded through Nebraska Children’s Foundation. It provided $10,000 a year for three years to communities. In Gage County we wanted to be sure our children under five were taken care of.
“The grant was specifically to support and coordinate planning for access to high quality early childcare. This was to build awareness and to do studies.”
In addition to the C4K Intiative, Gage County was selected in 2022 as one of the twelve Nebraska communities to…
