Rural Child Care Project

              PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS
Project effectiveness as evaluated by
participants.
Child Care Sharing seems to work
quite well as long as the participants
have very similar schedules and needs.
If however, one of the users needs 30
hours per week while a neighbor needs
only 4, resentment builds and some
other way must be found to make the
arrangement fair. One method is to
bank hours and keep a record of how
many hours you have in the time bank.
Another is to limit the number of hours
per week any member may use and
beyond that the hours are paid for in
cash.
Central Registries 1 and 2 and Limited
Registry are quite effective and
reasonably trouble free as long as the
organizers are able to maintain a list of
several dependable care givers.
Care Giver Registry, this was one of the
most effective projects and there seemed
to be several reasons why it functioned
so well. The organizers kept up an
extensive list in 3 sections ( Personal,
General, Students) and they formed a
support group that met on a regular
basis.
Sharing a Care Giver, e. g. a University
student worked very well for a 2 family,
summer, project.
Isolated Areas offer unique problems
and the user must simply make do with
what is available. A l l too often help is
many miles away and a casual baby­sitter
is an unattainable luxury.
Irregular or Emergency Drop Off with
One Care Giver. This project began
with great enthusiasm and high hopes
because they had found the perfect
person to care for their children. She
was flexible, caring and dependable.
Unfortunately her husband was
transferred and the whole project
foundered because it had been based
upon the availability of one person.
Alberta Rural Child Care Pilot Project
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