COVID-19 UPDATE FOR
1. For Parents and Guardians
a. Do not contact
an emergency child care program unless you require emergency, back-up, drop-in care.
b. Priority must
be given to people including but are not limited to health care workers, essential state and human service workers, COVID-19 health
workers, grocery store employees, emergency response personnel, law enforcement, transportation and infrastructure workers, sanitation
workers, DCF-involved families, and families living in shelters.
c. To slow the spread of the
coronavirus, all families should keep children out of group care settings to the greatest extent possible. Emergency Child Care Programs
are for when all other non-group-care settings have been exhausted and families have no other options.
You can find a list of
approved child care providers here: https://eeclead.force.com/resource/1584817665000/EEC_EmergencyProviderList
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