Stormi Kujawa was at a prenatal doctor’s appointment to check on her high-risk pregnancy when she got good news. It wasn’t about her baby. It was about a program that could help pay for childcare for her toddler daughter, Presley.
A local program was available for Larimer County families like hers, a social worker told her. Kujawa was so excited that she applied on her cellphone before even leaving the doctor’s office. A week later, she and her husband, Riley, were approved.
“I was shocked,” said Kujawa, who’d been on the waitlist for the state childcare subsidy program for more than two years. “I could not believe it.”…