Childcare

Visitors smile as they follow a teacher at the preschool outside in winter

Prairie Woods opens its venture into nature-based education for preschoolers

SPICER — If you were to design from scratch what a nature-based, early childhood education center should offer, you would almost certainly come up with what the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center already has. Its setting in northern Kandiyohi County offers roughly 500 acres of rolling terrain with woodlands, wetlands and prairie, along with seven miles […]

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Kandi Power Cooperative

Willmar’s Head Start to have a new home

WILLMAR—Living up to both of their names, United Community Action Partnership and Kandiyohi Power Cooperative are working together to create a larger and much needed space for the Head Start program operated by United Community Action Partnership. Kandiyohi Power Cooperative, with Marcus Construction, is renovating the cooperative’s building located on Highway 71 Northeast overlooking Willmar

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Childcare

Kandiyohi County Rural Child Care Innovation Project

Family childcare and childcare centers are businesses with accounting measures and regulations to follow. They are essential for maintaining the workforce for our businesses and instrumental in providing early education at a critical stage of child development, beginning the preparation of our future workforce. Understanding the problem A 2018 study completed by First Children’s Finance

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Kandiyohi County Child Care Shortage

Child care – Important to local and regional economic development

Family child care and child care centers are businesses with accounting measures and regulations to follow. They are essential for maintaining a workforce for our businesses and are instrumental in providing early education at an important stage of child development, beginning the preparation of our future workforce. Not having enough safe, affordable and accessible child

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