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The St. Paul Family Day Home Society is expanding to Bonnyville and Cold Lake after the day homes group in those communities shut down, leaving providers and parents in crisis.
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Barbara Rideout is one of the day home providers in Cold Lake who was impacted by the closure of Bonnyville Play & Learn Family Homes, the agency that had been managing the licensing checks and funding for Bonnyville and Cold Lake.
“We sat down for a dinner with our agency and all our providers and were told the board had put in a cease letter on our behalf and we no longer had funding as of March 31,” said Rideout.
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For the day home providers and the families they provide care to, the closure of the agency was a crisis. If they didn’t find a new agency right away, they would lose access to the Alberta childcare funding, which pays approximately two thirds of the monthly fees for full-time care, leaving parents with a flat fee of $326.50 per child.
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