The mission of the CDBG Child Care Facility Loan Program is to provide reasonably priced loans to licensed child care providers or to those who need facility upgrades in order to become licensed.

The target borrower for the CDBG Child Care Facility Loan Program is low to moderate income child care providers. Loans can be made to other child care providers if there will be new jobs created for low to moderate income people. In all cases, providers are expected to demonstrate a desire to continually work to improve the quality of their curriculum and staff training in accordance with quality indicators created by the Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership.

All loan recipients must be licensed child care providers. If they are not licensed they will be required to become licensed as part of the loan agreement.

The purpose of the CDBG Child Care Facility Loan Program is to create jobs for low and moderate income people, to expand child care capacity for existing providers, to increase the number of licensed providers, and to alleviate greater workforce and economic development constraints posed by the lack of available licensed child care within Wyoming communities.

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