Specifications include, but are not limited to: he establishment of the Early Care & Education Recovery Fund will support the resilience of the overall economy by allowing more parents to access early care and education (childcare) so that they can return to work after experiencing the negative impacts of COVID-19 within Riverside County. These funds are intended to leverage federal, state, and municipal investments in Early Care and Education (ECE) to maximize all available resources and to begin to mitigate the childcare desert that exists in Riverside County. This allocation will build on First 5 Riverside County’s current $6,400,000 ECE Infrastructure Investment. Projects proposed by child care providers including non-profits, colleges, school districts, businesses, or other qualified entities providing or intending to provide licensed early care and education services for children ages 0-3 in one of the five supervisorial districts of Riverside County may qualify with priority to those projects leveraging municipal and/or state ARPA dollars and other funding sources that target the expansion of ECE infrastructure in Riverside County.
