[ti:After-school Programs Face Labor Shortage]
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[00:00.04]As students return to classrooms in the United States,
[00:04.00]many parents are still not able to return to work.
[00:09.16]They are finding that after-school childcare programs
[00:13.52]are in short supply.
[00:17.24]School-based providers list difficulties in hiring
[00:22.08]and keeping workers as the biggest reasons
[00:25.88]they have not fully recovered from pandemic shutdowns.
[00:31.44]Providers say they are as worried about the situation
[00:35.64]as the parents who are without childcare.
[00:39.92]"We're in a constant state of flux.
[00:42.72]We'll hire one staffer and another will resign.
[00:46.88]We've just not been able to catch up this year," said Ester Buendia.
[00:53.80]She is assistant director for after-school programs
[00:57.96]at Northside Independent School District in Texas.
[01:03.76]Before the pandemic, the local after-school program
[01:07.64]Learning Tree had 1,000 workers.
[01:12.20]They served more than 7,000 students
[01:15.48]at about 100 elementary and middle schools.
[01:20.52]Today, there are fewer than 500 employees
[01:24.52]serving about 3,300 students.
[01:29.76]More than 1,100 students are on waiting lists for the program.
[01:36.96]It provides educational, recreational and social activities
[01:42.60]every school day, outside of school hours.
[01:47.44]Studies suggest parents, mostly mothers,
[01:51.68]are staying home for their children
[01:54.24]because they are unable to find after-school programming.
[01:59.96]That causes worker shortages at such programs
[02:03.84]that depend heavily on women to run them.
[02:08.52]"There's no doubt really that these after-school programs
[02:12.68]— the lack of after-school programs — are limiting women in particular
[02:17.64]being able to reenter the workforce," said Jen Rinehart.
[02:23.36]She leads planning and programming
[02:26.28]for the nonprofit group Afterschool Alliance.
[02:31.08]"If women don't return to the workforce,
[02:34.04]then we don't have the staff we need
[02:36.36]for these after-school opportunities,
[02:38.88]so it's all very tangled together," she said.
[02:43.84]An Afterschool Alliance study
[02:46.52]found a record high of 24.6 million children
[02:51.52]were unable to enter a program at the end of 2021.
[02:57.60]The researchers looked at more than 1,000 program providers.
[03:03.44]They found 54 percent had waiting lists,
[03:07.32]a much larger share than in the past.
[03:11.52]Wells Fargo reported that labor shortages in childcare
[03:16.28]are more severe than in other industries
[03:19.04]also struggling to find dependable employees.
[03:24.28]Employment was 12.4 percent below
[03:27.88]its pre-COVID-19 level at the beginning of March.
[03:33.44]That leaves an estimated 460,000 families
[03:38.56]forced to make other plans, the researchers found.
[03:44.32]Erica Gonzalez of San Antonio got after-school care
[03:48.52]for her daughters who are in second and sixth grade.
[03:53.76]That permitted her to keep her job at a nonprofit
[03:57.68]and her husband, a teacher, to also coach.
[04:02.92]Gonzalez had made sure to register her children
[04:06.40]for Learning Tree as early as possible.
[04:10.64]She also kept in contact
[04:13.04]with the girls' schools through the process.
[04:17.64]Gonzalez said, "We were really just kind of hoping
[04:21.36]and praying" for placement in the program.
[04:25.92]The Afterschool Alliance survey found that 71 percent of programs
[04:31.68]had taken action to hold onto to its workers and appeal to job seekers.
[04:38.64]The most common measure was to increase wages.
[04:43.68]In some cases, programs used federal pandemic relief money
[04:49.32]in the form of childcare awards.
[04:53.20]Some also have offered free childcare for employees
[04:57.32]as well as extra money or paid time off.
[05:02.92]Rinehart described a "tremendous unmet demand
[05:07.16]for after-school and summer programs" even before the pandemic.
[05:13.40]She said the health crisis has made the problem worse.
[05:18.88]I'm Jonathan Evans. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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