Maryland State Funded Childcare for Essential Employees

Designated essential personnel may find child care programs using LOCATE: Child Care, a free service available by phone Monday - Friday at 877-261-0060 between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Specialized services for parents of children with special needs, as well as Spanish language, are also available on these platforms.

The child care programs established by the State are at no cost to designated essential personnel only. Children attending the State-funded child care programs will be kept an appropriate distance from each other with ratios of a minimum of 1 teacher and 9 children for school-age with smaller class sizes for younger children.

Parents are strongly urged to keep children at home as the first and best option to protect them from the virus.

For more information, please visit Maryland State website: https://earlychildhood.marylandpublicschools.org/state-funded-child-care-essential-personnel