Flint Hills Community Accelerator & the Childcare Business Initiative on the GMCF Community Hour Show Episode - 294

About this episode

The episode discusses the expansion of childcare in Manhattan through the Flint Hills Community Accelerator and addresses challenges faced by providers.

We catch up with Lisa Isaacson on how the Flint Hills Community Accelerator is expanding childcare in Manhattan through eight licensed suites and a hub built around education, health care, workforce, and family support. We dig into what it takes to keep providers from burning out, meet hard-to-serve needs like overnight care, and build a model other Kansas communities can copy. • rapid build-out and first months of operations at the Flint Hills Community Accelerator • eight childc...

People in this episode

Host: Dave Lewis

Guest: Lisa Isaacson

Topics covered

• childcare
• community support
• workforce development
• education
• health care
• provider burnout

Keywords

• childcare
• Flint Hills Community Accelerator
• Manhattan
• provider burnout
• community support
• overnight care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Flint Hills Community Accelerator, Kansas

Places: Manhattan

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