Mayor D.C. Reeves unveiled the Mayor’s Childcare Access Program last week, a bold new initiative aimed at expanding high-quality, affordable childcare options for families across the City of Pensacola. The program is a strategic effort to better utilize city resources and to leverage the Community Redevelopment Agency’s portion of funding from the Escambia Children’s Trust, ensuring local children and working families have the support they need.
“Access to affordable, quality childcare is not just a family issue — it’s an economic issue,” said Mayor Reeves. “By aligning city resources and targeting available funding from the Escambia Children’s Trust, we will build the kind of infrastructure to allow Pensacola families to thrive and our economy to grow.”
This initiative also reflects Mayor Reeves’ leadership on the national stage as Chair of the Jobs, Education, and Workforce Committee with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where he has championed innovative, community-driven strategies to address the childcare crisis facing cities across the country…