Child Care Slots
Early Learning Reach
Child Care Cost
Child Care Subsidies
ACTION STRATEGY
ECAS Team 4 is working to increase access to early childhood programs and services across Hawai‘i, and is working to resolve program and service gaps community by community.
“Fewer than half of children under the age of 5 with all parents in the labor force lack access to child care registered with the Department of Human Services.”
Hawaiʻi has 66,262 children under the age of 6 with all parents in the labor force.
As of July, 2021, there were 833 child care providers registered with the Department of Human Services, with a total desired capacity of in the state with a combined capacity to provide care for 19,290 children aged 0-5.
“43% of children in Hawaiʻi receive child care provided by friends or relatives (providers legally operating without regulation)”
ACTION STRATEGY
ECAS Team 4: Create a comprehensive, virtual and mobile, early childhood resource and referral service
Publicly funded childcare and prekindergarten seats: 1040 (20-21)
EOEL: 680
Charter: 360
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ACTION STRATEGY
ECAS Team 4: Increase access for children in unstable housing to early care and education programs and services
Share of children 0-3 attending high quality early learning programs
Share of housing insecure children attending high quality early learning programs
“Nearly half of all 3 and 4 years olds are not enrolled in preschool, center based care, pre-kindergarten or Head Start. The rate is even higher for families in low-income families.”
“The Department of Education reports that enrollment figures in kindergarten in the fall of 2020 were 15% lower than expected”
