Struggling to Find Childcare & Preschool in Colorado? this podcast Can Help

Better Beginnings is a podcast on how families and preschool providers are navigating Colorado’s evolving early childhood system. More importantly, the show is searching for an answer to this question: How do we create a childcare and preschool system that better serves all Coloradans?

The first season of the podcast is grounded in the story of the Byrd family. Their brave search for childcare in a state with some of the most expensive, hardest-to-find childcare and preschool slots in the country underscores the deep need to reimagine Colorado’s early childhood system.

Along the way, we speak with experts in the field and provides tips for finding quality childcare and preschool options in our existing early childhood system. We also explore how this system got so confounding in the first place and a growing effort to challenge the status quo. That effort has since been featured on the hit podcast, “No One is Coming to Save Us”, and it has become the Move Colorado Forward coalition, which aims to elevate the need for affordable child care and build the public and political will to support child care affordability in Colorado.

If Colorado can continue to collaborate and innovate, it could mean dramatic improvements for kids, families and providers — and our early childhood system could become a model for the country.