Welcome to NASCD

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There is a huge unmet need for sick child care. Each day more than 350,000 children younger than 14 years of age with both parents working are too sick to attend school or child care. Working mothers are absent from their jobs from 5 to 29 days per year caring for ill children. This costs employers between $2 and $12 billion annually.

Obstacles exist that hamper the development of needed sick child care programs. There is an absence of providers largely due to lack of information, lack of licensing procedures for sick child care, difficulty getting insurance, and funding challenges.

Providers, parents, child care professionals and employers need information about sick child care. Providers need an information clearinghouse and a referral network of other providers, organizations and resources that can help them. Parents and child care professionals need information on sick child care resources in their communities and on ways to promote the creation of new services. Employers need information on how their support of sick child care services can help reduce their absenteeism costs.

What is NASCD?

NASCD is a non-profit, educational organization that was developed in 1988 as a result of a research project designed to quantify the need for sick child care.

The organization was established to:

Support the establishment of high quality sick child care programs nationwide.
Substantiate and quantify the need for new sick child care programs nationwide.
Promote the establishment of new sick child care services by researching and disseminating needed information.
Promote and participate in sick child care research.

What does NASCD do?

Our goal, as an organization, is to make available as much information as we can to as many people as possible. We aim to do this by continuing to hold a annual conference, by publishing a quarterly newsletter, by conducting research projects, and by making available information about sick child care.

ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCES: We recently held the 5th Annual Conference of the Association, "Building Bridges to Success." This annual conference is a rare opportunity to exchange much valuable information regarding sick child care. Despite the growing number of programs that serve ill children, information about the topic is scarce.
NEWSLETTERS: Published periodically.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Original research on issues vital to sick child care are conducted, sponsored and made available to those interested.
INCREASED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF SICK CHILD CARE: TV networks, radio stations, magazines and newspapers contact us regularly for information.