PATHWAYS LA
3325 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90010 www.pathwaysla.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Pathways LA strengthens low-income and vulnerable working families, promotes high quality early care and education services for children of all abilities, develops knowledgeable early care providers, and promotes economically resilient communities.

Pathways LA helps low-income families find and pay for quality, reliable child care so parents can work, and we strengthen the quality of care available by training child care providers in best practices that prepare children for kindergarten.

Child Care Financial Assistance: Provides child care subsidies to low-income working families. The program also provides child care for children in the foster care system and homeless families. The West Hollywood Preschool: Provides free and reduced early childhood care to preschoolers, ages 2 1/2 to 5,preparing them for successful entry into kindergarten classrooms. * Enrolled 3,841 children in partial or fully subsidized child care services, serving a total of 2,642 families. * The median income of families we serve is $24,885, nearly 63% below the Los Angeles area median income.

Child Care Resource and Referral: Providing referrals to licensed child care providers for all families in our community. Child Care Provider Resources: Offering training and technical assistance services to help new and existing child care providers obtain licenses, improve their learning environments, include children with special needs, and advance their child care businesses. * Pathways LA responded to 959 child care referral requests and 1,501 technical assistance calls. * Pathways LA trained more than 432 child care providers and, in addition, offered 1,044 individual coaching sessions.

Other Programs consist of the following:The Family Engagement Program is targeted at low-income families and seeks to reduce parents stress and improve family resiliency by increasing parental competence in five domains outlined by the Strengthening Families Framework: Parental Resilience, Social Connections, Concrete Support in Times of Need, Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development, and Social and Emotional Competence of Children.The Senate Bill (SB) 89 Covid-19 Early Learning and Care Response Funds for Fiscal Year 2019-2020 were distributed to Resource & Referral agencies in order to support child care providers who were currently open for services or intended to re-open during the Covid-19 emergency. These funds were accessible to all child care providers, licensed and license-exempt to purchase materials and supplies needed for their facilities in order to provide care. Child care providers were able to request a check in the amount of $65.89 per child up to the providers capacity. These funds were available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Pathways LA was able to accommodate all funding requests received. In addition, with the remaining funds we purchased personal protective equipment (PPE), such as sanitizing and cleaning supplies, thermometers, face masks, face shields, etc. to distribute to the providers. Throughout the year we held several drive-thru distributions to distribute the PPE to which all providers were invited. Child care providers were informed to contact our agency on an on-going basis should they have any of these related needs so that we could continue to support them and facilitate their ability to provide child care. Other programs also included the distribution of donated laptops and other program supplies to child care providers.Total program expenses were $522,309.

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