OCDC Modifies Plans For Harvest Childcare

The Oregon Childhood Development Coalition is modifying its plans for childcare for harvest workers to meet physical distancing guidelines.  OCDC provides care for children ages six weeks to six years.  Program director Jennifer Heredia says busing is unworkable, so workers will have to drop their kids off at childcare.  To accommodate that, OCDC will open 30 minutes early at 4:30 a.m., and staff will take the temperature of every child every day and ask three health related questions, with parents dropping kids off outside the building.  To the extent possible children will be kept in stable groups of ten with the same staff, playgrounds will be used in shifts, and new cleaning regimens will also be in place.  OCDC will open two days later than planned on June 11 as it awaits the arrival of ordered supplies and works to hire 20 aides.  The Migrant Education Program for ages 7 to 11 is also seeing significant changes, including teaching classes at orchards instead of at a central location.

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