Coming Together to Support
Our Community's Most Vulnerable Families

Orange County is suffering from a dramatic shortage in child care providers, with only enough child care available to cover 15 percent of children. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has further ravaged the child care landscape, eliminating 46,000 childcare slots through January 2021 all the while unemployment benefits are causing a shortage in staff.

We urgently need your support in helping UCP-OC repair a tremendous service gap within our community. The pandemic-related labor shortage has led to an extreme loss of child care hours within our organization, and across the Orange County community. Your gift will allow UCP-OC to provide a sign-on bonus to attract, hire, and train qualified caregivers to support the families waiting for our help.

Your generous donation will go directly to UCP-OC’s “Emergency Child Care Fund,” and will allow us to immediately begin providing support to the special needs families in dire need of respite child care.

For questions or to get further involved, please contact:

Christina Lim-Garkovich, Vice President of Philanthropy