These days, Kimberly Alaric is mapping out her own flight plan for a bright future after a turbulent upbringing.

For the first time in a long time, families in Hagensborg will have access to licensed child care for children under the age of five, helping parents go back to work or school, while their children receive quality child care.

Parents in Fort St. John who want to go back to school or return to work but need child care have more opportunities to do so, with two new child care centres in their community.

Young children in Castlegar will soon have the opportunity to learn in both of Canada’s official languages in a newly renovated, multi-age child care space set to open in July 2019.

Golden Child Daycare will soon have twice as many licensed child care spaces in a more accessible facility, in part due to a $202,712 investment through the Province’s Childcare BC New Spaces Fund.

A new child care centre in West Kelowna will soon provide local families with quality licensed child care spaces.

It’s a story that I’ve heard repeatedly: a parent, usually a mother, having to give up their career because it makes more sense to stay home than to pay sky-high child care fees.