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UNL child-care facilities
'overloaded, but effective
By Susie Reitz
"We get at least two to three calls a week
from parents who desperately want day care
services, but we just don't have facilities to
provide for all the people who need them," said
Mary Jo Ryan, director of the University Child
Care program for low income student parents.
"To be eligible for our service, the parents
must be approved by the Financial Aids office
and then we try to work their class schedules
into a child care schedule," she said.
Seventeen people are on the waiting list now.
she said, compared with 35 at the beginning of
this semester.
"All 17 on the waiting list are parents who
have been approved by financial aids. They are
waiting for openings," Ryan said. "Many give up
before they get through financial aids and either
make other arrangements or just don't go to
school."
The child care program, begun in 1970 has
three centers.
The Child Care Center at
UMHE-Commonplace, 333 N. 14th St., is
licensed for 25 preschool children. Ryan said 77
children are in the program, but schedules are
arranged so only 25 arc at the center at one time.
Children average four to five hours a day at the
center, she said.
Kinderschool offshoot
The Infant Care center, located in the First
Plymouth Congregational Church at 20th and D
Sts., is licensed for 12 children vnder age 2 and
eight children from 2 to 3. The infant program
was an offshoot of the original child care
program and opened in 1972. It is the only
licensed infant care center in Lincoln. Ryan said.
Last summer a program called Kinderschool
opened for elementary school children at Mark's
on the Campus, 13th and R streets. During the
school year the program operates after school
and in the summer during the day, Ryan said.
Churches where the centers are located
provide space rent-free, according to Ryan.
Parents are involved in most of the
fund-raising, programming, budget planning, staff
hiring and other decisions affecting center
operation, Ryan said.
"To get our license we have to meet
requirements set by the federal, state, and local
governments,"" Ryan said.
Regulations met
To qualify for vender payments from the state
Department of Welfare, the center must meet
Federal Interagency Day Care requirements.
Vender payment is welfare payment directly to
the center for child care, Ryan explained.
Parents must meet state welfare department
regulations to qualify for vender payments, and
not all program parents are on welfare, she said.
"The FICC requirements are strict and are
costly for the center because of some of the
regulations, particularly sanitation," Ryan said.
"But they provide for the best care for the
children, and that is important."
The requirement of a five to one ratio of
students to staff, is stricter than the state ratio of
seven to one, but benefits the children, Ryan
said.
The 38 work-study students on the staff this
year are "more interested and effective" than in
other years, Ryan said. "The staff is going
through training sessions and most of the
students involved are planning careers working
with children," she noted.
In addition to the work-study staff, volunteer
students from the graduate school of social work
and undergraduate departments of Human
Development and the Family, Speech and
Hearing, Child Psychology, Education
Psychology, and Elementary Education spend
several hours a week at the center working on
various projects, according to Ryan.
Most academic program? are for classroom
enrichment she said.
"Professors give students credit for doing
volunteer work or projects in the center.
Requirements vary with the teacher," she said.
The full-time Child Care Center supervisor is
Kim Sullivan and Infant Care supervisor is Moni
Usasz. Usasz also has a full-time assistant, Ryan
said.
"The philosophy of the center is to design
unstructured, stimulating activities which provide
the students with a choice of activities," Ryan
said.
"Our location is good," she said, "we can take
the children to the libraries, museums, Sheldon
Art Gallery, and downtown. In the spring and
summer we take them on longer trips to zoos,
parks, Iakes-sometimcs swimming."
Ryan r.aid she became involved in the project
as an undergraduate and a parent. She was
supervisor before becoming program director in
1972.
"Our main goal is to provide beneficial day
care for student parents. Some are not able to
take classes because they can't afford day care,"
Ryan said, "There is a definite need for
expansion." "
"One proposal is that any married student
housing built should include a day care center,"
Ryan noted. "But meanwhile we'll just do all we
can for the children who are here now."
Student Volunteer Services
is offering free tax assistance
on Monday and Tuesday until
April 15 from 6 to 10 p.m. in
the Nebraska Union, Room
225 G.
Elliott Elementary School is
looking for volunteers to
design and teach mini-courses
in April. For further
information contact the
Student Volunteer Services
Office in Nebraska Union Rm.
200.
Delta Sigma Pi actives and
pledges are selling coupon
booklets for $1 in cooperation
with the Nebraska Easter Seal
Society.
Beginning today the Lincoln
Computing Facility is offering
a five session mini-course on
the KRONOS timesharing
system. Contact Jeff Rchn,
LCF Academic Services
further information.
for
Fran Fiala, in cooperation
with the American Home
Economics Association, will
give a presentation of spring
fashions in room 31 in the
Home Economics Building at
6:30 p.m., Thursday.
The Recreation and Parks
Society will hear a speaker on
career development and
planning, Tuesday at 4 p.m. in
the Majors Lounge of the
Women's Pnysical Education
Building.
PEACE GOOPSVISTA
Volunteers needed with degrees in the following ski areas:
J0U03ALISM
BUSINESS
EDUCATION
OATH
ARGIIITECTU
A6RICULTURI
LAW
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HOME EG0I1.
ISIIFREIICi!
Recruiters ca ummt Parch 13-13.1975.
Stniors and grads pick i'p hfcraatisa packet and si$? tsp for an
Litsrviaw at tb Placement Office.
Anyone interested in Spring or Summer programs mutt apply imn
this drive.
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daily nebraskan
rnonday, march 3, 1975
