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Oregon Business + Child Care Toolkit

Toolkits

Practical guides, living tools.

Each toolkit is a chaptered guide written for a specific audience, with ready-to-use templates attached to every chapter. Read it like a book or jump straight to the tool you need — it's all searchable with ⌘K.

Community groups and regional child care coalitions

Coalition Building Toolkit

A practical, step-by-step toolkit for community groups creating or leading regional child care coalitions — from first outreach to a working governance structure.

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  1. Getting startedWhat a child care coalition is, who belongs in it, and how to convene the first meeting.
  2. Engaging employersOutreach sequences, framing that resonates with business leaders, and the meetings that convert interest into commitment.
  3. Messaging that worksAudience-tested framing for employers, elected officials, and the broader community.
  4. Structure and governanceRoles, decision-making, and the position descriptions that keep a volunteer coalition functional.
  5. Sustaining momentumQuick wins, progress rituals, and how coalitions survive year two.
Employers, HR leaders, and business owners

Employer Toolkit

Concrete options for employers who want to help employees with child care — from low-cost first steps to employer-sponsored care — with the templates and numbers to act on them.

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  1. Why child care is a business issueThe workforce math: turnover, absenteeism, and the recruiting edge of family-friendly employers.
  2. The options ladderNine ways to support employees' child care needs, ordered from lowest to highest commitment.
  3. Cost estimatorAn interactive, educational illustration of employer-sponsored child care costs and the federal §45F credit.
  4. Federal tax incentivesPlain-language overview of §45F and the Dependent Care FSA, and how they stack.
  5. Your first 90 daysA sequenced plan from employee survey to your first implemented benefit.

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