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Oregon Business + Child Care Toolkit

For employers

You're losing people to a solvable problem.

Missed shifts, declined promotions, resignations you didn't see coming — child care gaps show up in your numbers long before anyone names them. This page is an interactive implementation companion to the Oregon Employer’s Child Care Toolkit: the shortest path from reading about your options to acting on one, with your regional partners in the loop.

Find your first move

6 questions · ~3 minutes · nothing stored
How many people work at your organization?
How often do child care gaps disrupt your operations — missed shifts, late arrivals, turnover you trace back to care?
What's the furthest step you've already taken?
When does your workforce work?
What most holds you back from doing more?
Average annual gross receipts over the last five years — under $32 million?

Run your numbers

Decisions follow data that’s about your workforce, not the national picture.

Employee needs survey

5 min to launch

Twelve anonymous questions that size your workforce's actual care needs — and become your baseline.

Open

Turnover cost worksheet

15 min

Your own turnover and absence numbers, converted into the annual figure your CFO will engage with.

Open

Federal credit estimator

5 min

Model the expanded 40–50% employer child care credit on your plans, assumptions shown, export for your CPA.

Open

Employers like yours

Do something. Get seen doing it.

Employers who complete a verified first step — a survey run, a benefit launched, a provider partnership signed — are publicly recognized: listed on the Impact page, credited in regional stories, and put on stage where the next employer is watching. Your example is the recruitment.

See how progress is counted

Recognition criteria (preview)

  • A countable action, not a pledge
  • Verified by your regional coalition
  • Renewed annually — it stays earned

Three minutes in, you have a plan.

Take the assessment above, or skip straight to the people who've brokered these steps before — your regional coalition.

Connect with your coalitionModel the tax credit