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Spectrum News 1

January 9, 2026 | Changing child care regulations causes strain for providers
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Columbus Dispatch

January 8, 2026 | Ohio's actual child care problem won't make you a TikTok star | Opinion
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Ohio Capital Journal

January 5, 2026 | Child care advocates hopeful for new year, but see long road ahead for funding, access
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Action for Children

Crisis of Affordability Report
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Previous Media Coverage

2025

Columbus Dispatch: Child care is in crisis. New funding aims to bolster workforce, economy (October 14, 2025)
Action for Children: Action for Children Statement on Ohio Child Care Cred Program (September 26, 2025)
Crane Center for Early Childhood Research & Policy: Exploring Potential Factors Driving High Turnover Among Early Care and Education Teachers (August 2025)
Columbus Dispatch: Advocates want Ohio budget to help children, not Cleveland Browns (June 17, 2025)
Columbus Dispatch: Working Families Rally at Ohio Statehouse call attention to child tax credit, Medicaid (June 17, 2025)
614 Magazine: How a new local child care initiative is changing the game for working parents in Central Ohio (June 6, 2025)
10TV WBNS: Budget proposal sparks debate over support for home visiting program in Ohio (April 4, 2025)
WKYC: Reaction pours in to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s State of the State address (March 12, 2025)
Spectrum News 1: Organization offers businesses a chance to address child care shortages (January 9, 2025)

2024

Columbus Business First | Reports show mixed progress for state of childcare in Central Ohio (December 26, 2024)
10TV | Boomtown: Child care industry in Ohio faces severe shortage of qualified teachers (December 13, 2024)
Action for Children | Dedication Through Difficulty: 2024 Central Ohio Child Care Provider Survey Report (December 11, 2024)
Columbus Business First | Nonprofit veteran Tasha Booker named CEO of Action for Children (November 15, 2024)
Action for Children | Action for Children Appoints Tasha Booker as New Chief Executive Officer (November 7, 2024)
Bonterra Tech: Empowering caregivers, improving children’s lives (October 15, 2024)
The Century Foundation: Child Care Funding Cliff at One Year: Rising Prices, Shrinking Options, and Families Squeezed (September 24, 2024)
Columbus Business First: PNC Foundation awards $500K to Central Ohio organizations supporting childhood education (October 2, 2024)
NBC4 via Yahoo News: Get out and do something this weekend in central Ohio, Aug. 22-25 (August 22, 2024)
Axios Columbus: Columbus employers boost workers’ child care benefits (July 9, 2024)
NBC4i: Non-profit group helps dads become better fathers (March 19, 2024)
Columbus Metropolitan Club: Panel – Understanding the New Landscape of Childcare (February 14, 2024)
The Columbus Dispatch: Understanding the New Landscape of Childcare (January 31, 2024)
Daytime Columbus: Interview with Finding Child Care & Children Services Hub (January 24, 2024)
Daytime Columbus: Interview with FatherUp at Action for Children (January 17, 2024)
Daytime Columbus: Interview with SPARK and Help Me Grow Home Visiting (January 10, 2024)
Sunny95 Perspective: Childcare Crisis (January 21, 2024)
All Our Kin: 5 Tips for Centering Educator Leadership in Networks (January 5, 2024)

2023

Action for Children: Child Care and A Strong Economy Presentation (November 8, 2024)
10TV-WBN: COTA breaks ground on new mobility center at Rickenbacker airport (October 4, 2023)
Axios Columbus: Threat of child care closures looms in Ohio (October 3, 2023)
Mayor Joe Show: Interview with SPARK at Action for Children (September 13, 2023)
New America: Strengthening a Robust Economic Recovery with Child Care (September 9, 2023)
Perspective on Sunny95: The BOSS and The Village at Action for Children (September 3, 2023)
Newark Advocate: Local child care experts offer tips on spotting children who have been victims of abuse (April 15, 2023)
NBC4: Report says Intel should invest in on-site and off-site childcare options (April 14, 2023)
BizWomen: What the continuing childcare crisis means for the workforce (April 12, 2023)
Action for Children: CHIPS and Child Care in America’s Silicon Heartland Report and Executive Summary (April 11, 2023)
Columbus Business First: Central Ohio’s ongoing childcare crisis poses bevy of workforce challenges, poll shows (April 11, 2023)
Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony on HB 33 before House Finance Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (March 23, 2023)
10TV-WBNS: For more federal dollars, semiconductor chip manufacturers will have to provide child care support (March 1, 2023)
92.3 WCOL: Interview with Eric Karolak (January 18, 2023)
Action for Children: Action for Children Launches Two New Programs for Child Care Professionals (January 10, 2023)

2022

Perspective on Sunny 95: Child Care Challenges (December 25, 2022)
Columbus Business First: Central Ohio child care industry seeks permanent solution to ongoing crisis (December 22, 2022)
10TV-WBNS: Trends spell trouble for child care industry (December 7, 2022)
WOSU: New report says central Ohio child care providers having ‘reckoning, not recovery’ (December 6, 2022)
Action for Children: Reckoning, Not Recovery Report (November 29, 2022)
Columbus Dispatch: 6 things you need to know about Franklin County’s proposed 2023 budget (November 14, 2022)
NBC4: Columbus moves to boost childcare industry (November 7, 2022)
Conquering Columbus: Action for Children interview with CEO Eric Karolak (September 19, 2022)
Columbus Dispatch: Opinion | We’re not letting Washington off the hook.’ Child care crisis lingers on (August 29, 2022)
ABC6: Cost of child care increasing in Franklin County (August 9, 2022)
Columbus Dispatch (for Paid Subscribers): Red, White & Boom got some of Franklin County’s federal COVID relief money (June 30, 2022)
Columbus Dispatch (for Paid Subscribers): Franklin County RISE offers child care workers and parents support as industry rebounds (June 22, 2022)
NBC4: Franklin County, Columbus offering up to $10K in childcare aid (May 31, 2022)
Columbus CEO: At Center for Healthy Families, Teen Parents Find Support, Resources, Education (April 26, 2022)
10TV: Franklin County announces $23 million in federal funding for families, child care provid ers (March 24, 2022)
ABC6: American Rescue dollars allocated for historic child care plan in Franklin County (March 24, 2022)
WOSU Public Media: Multi-million dollar program to fund early learning scholarships in Franklin County (March 24, 2022)
90.5 WBCE: Franklin County offering child care scholarships, provider incentives, housing help for educators (March 24, 2022)
Columbus Dispatch: F ranklin County investing $23 million to help families struggling to pay for child care (March 24, 2022)
Action for Children: Franklin County RISE Child Care Scholarships Support Local Families (March 24, 2022)
ABC6: Columbus Group Hopes to Empower Fathers and Families (March 18, 2022)
Policy Matters Ohio: Stabilize families, workers, and the child care industry (March 21, 2022)
CardRates.Com: Action for Children Uses Donations to Support Parents and Early Childhood Education Providers (March 17, 2022)
Cleveland News 5: Gov. DeWine announces $650 million for child care providers (March 11, 2022)
Columbus Perspective: Action for Children’s CEO discusses a signing bonus offered for people filling eligible child care positions in Franklin County (February 27, 2022)
Columbus Business First: Columbus funds signing bonuses for childcare workers in hopes of shoring up labor market (February 26, 2022)
Action for Children: Action for Children Announces Signing Bonuses for 500 Child Care Professionals (February 23, 2022)
Columbus Dispatch: Our only option is to stay at home with our kids.’ Child care crisis keeps moms from work (February 20, 2022)

2021

Columbus Parent: Child Care Centers Are in Crisis and the Fallout is Affecting Working Moms and Dads (December 23, 2021)
Columbus Parent: 2021 Central Ohio Child Care Provider Directory (December 23, 2021)
News 5 Cleveland: Northeast Ohio daycare providers continue pandemic related struggle (December 8, 2021)
10TV: Columbus child care provider hopes new state grant can help with sustainability (December 3, 2021)
Columbus Business First: Columbus childcare industry faces grim reality as pandemic drags on (December 3, 2021)
WCBE 90.5 FM: Recovery committee delivers recommendations with a focus on child care (December 2, 2021)
Columbus CEO: Working parents tired of jumping through hoops for suitable child care, seeking change (November 23, 2021)
WOSU Public Media: Columbus City Council Approves Child Care Worker Recruitment Measure (November 22, 2021)
NBC4: Columbus City Council approves $4 million to fill childcare positions (November 22, 2021)
WOSU Public Media: Central Ohio Child Care Operators Describe Industry In Crisis (November 8, 2021)
10TV: ‘A crisis on multiple levels’: New report reveals central Ohio childcare centers are closing at a rapid rate (November 4, 2021)
Columbus Dispatch: Daycare centers still struggling to find workers almost two years into pandemic (October 25, 2021)
City of Columbus: Press Conference: New Child Care Initiatives – Dr. Eric Karolak’s comments at 27:40 (September 20, 2021)
FM96: City pledges aid for childcare providers, parents (September 21, 2021)
City of Columbus: Press Conference: New Child Care Initiatives – Dr. Eric Karolak’s comments at 27:40 (September 20, 2021)
NBC4: Columbus leaders announce $3.5 million for child care initiatives (September 20, 2021)
10TV: City of Columbus announces $3.5 million in COVID relief funds to help rebuild child care industry (September 20, 2021)
Ohio News Time: Ginther Announces Funding for Childcare Initiative (September 20, 2021)
Columbus Dispatch: Columbus council to consider allocating more than $4 million for pre-K schooling (September 20, 2021)
Perspective: Sunny 95 FM: Child Care (September 19, 2021)
Columbus Dispatch: ‘We are in crisis’: One-third of Ohio child-care centers are short-staffed as parents seek to return to offices (May 16, 2021)
The Blade: Child Care Needs Support (March 22, 2021)
10TV: ‘A crisis in childcare’: Parents Could See Less Options Post-Pandemic (March 9, 2021)

2020

Columbus Parent: Ohio’s Child Care Ratings System Shows Progress (December 23, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: Nearly a Quarter of Local Child Care Providers Could Close by Early 2021 (December 18, 2020)
ThisWeek News: Coronavirus causing enrollment drop for kindergarten in central Ohio (November 11, 2020)
NBC4: Childcare providers continue to adapt during pandemic (August 26, 2020)
Columbus Parent: Pandemic Prompts Day Care Dilemmas for Providers and Parents (Aug. 6, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: Central Ohio child care centers waiting on subsidy figure before considering return to full capacity (July 31, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: Amid pandemic, parents cautious over child care (July 19, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: How will Ohio schools hold fall classes as coronavirus cases rise? (July 12, 2020)
NBC4: Parents Night In Benefiting Action for Children June 25 at 7 pm (June 25, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: Parents and caregivers wrestle with decisions about child care openings (May 15, 2020)
NBC4: Daycares remain open with temporary pandemic license (March 26, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s coronavirus child-care centers are set to open. How many kids will show up? (March 26, 2020)
ReadyFM “Community Matters”: Part 1: Positive Parenting Program (March 17, 2020)
10TV: Ohio day cares prepare for eventual closure; parents should, too (March 16, 2020)
Columbus Dispatch: Ohio schools prepare for 3-week coronavirus shutdown starting Monday (March 13, 2020)
Parents.com: Is an In-Home Daycare Right for Your Family? (February 6, 2020)
10TV: Schools closing due to illness leaves parents looking for child care (February 7, 2020)

2019

10TV: What Should Parents Look for When Choosing Child Care? (September 11, 2019)
Columbus Dispatch: Is your Child Ready to start Kindergarten? (August 16, 2019)
Columbus Dispatch: Five Ohio Organizations Awarded $260,000 each from State for Fatherhood (July 26, 2019)
Columbus Parent: Child Care: Columbus-area Providers Seek to Meet State Standard (January 3, 2019)
Columbus Parent: Child Care: Find Full-Time Providers in Central Ohio (January 8, 2019)

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