Child Care Choice Vouchers
Opportunity Council, with funding from Snohomish County, offers resource navigation services and may provide short-term child care tuition assistance to eligible families. A Family Access Navigator can connect you to the Child Care Choice voucher program, which helps low-income families living in Snohomish County access and maintain high-quality licensed child care while they are job seeking or participating in employment readiness or job training-related activities.
Child Care Choice Voucher Assistance
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)
- National Housing Trust Fund (HTF), for affordable housing programs only
- Home Investment Partnership Programs (HOME), for affordable housing programs only
Think you might qualify? Email cc_navigator@oppco.org
to schedule an intake.
Determining Eligibility for
Child Care Choice Voucher Assistance
- Complete an Intake
Complete a program intake with a Family Access 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, Family Access Navigators will issue tuition vouchers on your behalf with your child care program. - Monthly Check-In
Family Access 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 Family Access Navigators!
Chelsey Cragin
Family Access Navigator,
Snohomish County
Contact: (564) 565-0237
Liz Steele
Family Access Navigator,
Snohomish County
Contact: (564) 565-0235
