Child Care Choice
Resource Navigation
Opportunity Council, with funding from Snohomish County, provides resource navigation services and possible short-term child care tuition assistance to eligible families in Snohomish County. The Child Care Choice (CCC) Resource Navigation Program makes it possible for families who reside in Snohomish County with low incomes to access and/or maintain high-quality licensed child care while they are job seeking or participating in employment readiness/job training-related activities.
Child Care Choice Tuition Assistance
*VOUCHER APPROVALS ON TEMPORARY HOLD, WAITLIST IN PLACE.
In order to be eligible to receive short-term child care tuition assistance through the Child Care Choice Program, you must reside in Snohomish County; have an income which falls at or below 60% Snohomish County Area Median Income (AMI); and/or be unemployed, participating in employment, job seeking, and/or job training activities; and/or be enrolled in any of the following assistance programs:
- Children’s Health Insurance Program
- Childcare Subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
- Medicaid
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Free and Reduced-Price Lunch (NSLP) and/or School Breakfast (SBP)
- Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidies
- Supplemental Security Income
- Head Start or Early Head Start
- Section 8 Vouchers
- Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
- Pell Grants
- Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP)
- State Food Assistance Program (FAP)
- LEP Pathway
- Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA)
- PUD Electric and Water Rate Discount
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Think you might qualify? Email cc_navigator@oppco.org
to schedule an intake.
Determining Eligibility for
Child Care Choice Tuition Assistance
- Complete an Intake
Complete a program intake with a Child Care Choice Navigator where you will report household information, demographics, and details about your individual situation to determine eligibility. - Locate Child Care
Navigators will send you a list of licensed child care providers in your area and accompany you on tours until you find a suitable child care that meets your family’s needs. - Issuing Vouchers
Once you find a suitable child care, Child Care Choice Navigators will issue tuition vouchers on your behalf with your child care program. - Monthly Check-In
Child Care Choice Navigators will check-in at least once a month (or more if needed) to confirm job-seeking, and check-in on situation changes (i.e. changes in budgeting, food assistance, utilities, etc.), and to confirm that the chosen child care is a good fit. - Exit Survey
You will complete an exit survey 30 days and 3 months after finishing the program to help determine if the Child Care Choice Program was helpful to you as you achieved your employment and financial goals.
Meet Our Child Care Choice Navigators!
Chelsey Cragin
Child Care Choice Navigator,
Snohomish County
Contact: (564) 565-0237
Liz Steele
Child Care Choice Navigator,
Snohomish County
Contact: (564) 565-0235
