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Child Care Program
Program Goals
The goals of the Breckenridge Child Care Program are:
- Improve accessibility and affordability of quality early child care for local families and workforce.
- Ensure families are not unduly cost-burdened regardless of their income and amount of care.
- Help Centers achieve sustainable budgets, while providing quality care, maintaining sufficient reserves, and retaining and compensating teachers.
- The public investment should result in positive impact on child and family outcomes.
Program History
Accessible and affordable Child Care is a hot topic nation wide. The Town of Breckenridge is taking a proactive approach to meet the needs of local families, and employers by addressing the issue through a variety of tools and strategies. In the Upper Blue Valley where Breckenridge is located 85% of all parents work, making child care and all that it entails an important and vital resources for our families and their employers.
In early 2006 the Breckenridge Town Council created a Child Care Task Force in response to community concerns about the lack of capacity (child care slots), the long wait lists, and the inability of Centers to retain staff, provide quality care, and cover their costs through tuition and fund raising. Employees were missing work because child care was not available, families were leaving the community because of the cost of living and lack of accessible care, and Child Care Centers were struggling to keep their doors open and provide the quality care at affordable rates for families that is particularly important and impactful during a child’s first 5 years.
In endorsing the Child Care Program the Town Council determined that public support of child care is an important investment in the community and that quality early child care benefits families, children, employers, and the community at large. Investment in child care helps ensure that Breckenridge is a viable option for families. In 2025, Council approved the following childcare priorities/goals:
1) Find creative ways to add childcare spaces.
2) Stabilize and maintain childcare center facility needs.
3) Provide for the long-term future of affordable, quality childcare for our workforce.
4) Create one county-wide waitlist with ability to analyze data at the Town level.
5) Provide after school, summer and extra curricular programming for local children.
Contact
If you are in need of child care please contact one of the local centers for enrollment and curriculum information (listed below) or contact Early Childhood Options at (970) 513-1170 to inquire about in home care or other options, tuition assistance and additional program options.
Breckenridge Non-profit Childcare Centers:
Timberline Learning Center - (970) 453-9656
Little Red Schoolhouse - (970) 453-6871
Carriage House - (970) 453-6423
Breckenridge Montessori - (970) 547-7661
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