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-3- PROGRAM ABSTRACT ® This program proposal addresses the need for childcare programs t during school vacation days. Households which have two working parents or a single working parent and school age children are often burdened with the problem of arranging care for their children) during non -school workdays. Mounds View School District #621 scheduled twenty-two school days including two•MEA days, five days of conferences, three clerical days and twelve holidays during the 1987-88 school year. These were all normal business workdays. Thankgiving, Christmas and New Years days which were traditional holidays, are not included in the numbers above. This proposal addresses the need for school age childcare during school vacation days and is specifically designed for the working parent(s). In this day and age, an increasing number of households have two working parents. It is stressful for parents to try to find j adequate arrangements for childcare during school vacation days. The goal of this program proposal is to offer an opportunity FOR parents to registar their school age children in a fun, recreational program of organized daylong activities scheduled i J during normal'workdays when the schools are not in session. _.. cif' Y PROBLEMS AND NEED STATEMENT Working parents usually have daily arrangements for pre-school age childcare but seldom have arrangements for school age childcare during occasional days when school is not in session. Therefore, during work days when school is not in session, there is a need for childcare. Such arrangements are not made Asily because sporatic daycare services are not always available. It becomes stressful for parents when"childcare is not available for their school "___ _- _..,,ti ��1 days. Tha nifarnafivp is �fhan children uuiiS�_ t,.o�� .... .... _-,-. that the children) stay home alone or parents take a vacation day unwilling'-y. U