$300 FAMILY CHILD CARE COVID STIPENDS
UPDATED 1/14 4:00 PM: Due to overwhelming response, application acceptance will close at midnight on Friday, Jan 15.
Navajo Family Voices, in coordination with Northern Diné COVID-19 Relief Effort, is providing one-time stipend checks in the amount of $300 for homebased family child care. The checks are intended as community assistance and acknowledgement of family resilience. Funding is provided by New Mexico Early Childhood Funders Group, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
With the absence of professional childcare services on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, families have been self-reliant during prolonged COVID lockdowns and curfews since March 13, 2020. Childcare, wellness, activities and learning so critical for early childhood development must be looked after from within. Numerous families have had to self-address early childhood and family wellness in kinship groups. We salute and celebrate all your efforts.
Who is Eligible?
Families who live on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, and who are relying on kinship during COVID in providing childcare, wellness and learning for infants and children aged 8 or younger, or children of any age with extra healthcare needs, are eligible to receive a one-time check. Kinship childcarers (grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, adult/older children) or parents may apply. Priority is given to families which address childcare, wellness, learning and activities for the children and for the whole family in a coordinated way, building on kinship relations. If selected for funding, you will be asked to fill out a W-9. The check is for the benefit of the kinship family caring unit as a whole. Please call or email if you have any questions.
How Do I Apply?
There is no application form. Please provide us with the following information by mail or email. (Families who need to covey verbally may call us and a family advocate will assist. We are also able to provide Diné language assistance):
Navajo Family Voices, in coordination with Northern Diné COVID-19 Relief Effort, is providing one-time stipend checks in the amount of $300 for homebased family child care. The checks are intended as community assistance and acknowledgement of family resilience. Funding is provided by New Mexico Early Childhood Funders Group, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
With the absence of professional childcare services on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, families have been self-reliant during prolonged COVID lockdowns and curfews since March 13, 2020. Childcare, wellness, activities and learning so critical for early childhood development must be looked after from within. Numerous families have had to self-address early childhood and family wellness in kinship groups. We salute and celebrate all your efforts.
Who is Eligible?
Families who live on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, and who are relying on kinship during COVID in providing childcare, wellness and learning for infants and children aged 8 or younger, or children of any age with extra healthcare needs, are eligible to receive a one-time check. Kinship childcarers (grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, adult/older children) or parents may apply. Priority is given to families which address childcare, wellness, learning and activities for the children and for the whole family in a coordinated way, building on kinship relations. If selected for funding, you will be asked to fill out a W-9. The check is for the benefit of the kinship family caring unit as a whole. Please call or email if you have any questions.
How Do I Apply?
There is no application form. Please provide us with the following information by mail or email. (Families who need to covey verbally may call us and a family advocate will assist. We are also able to provide Diné language assistance):
- Applicant’s name, phone, email and mailing address
- Please describe how kinship childcare is being provided in your family during COVID for infants, children age 8 or younger, or children of any age with extra healthcare needs.
- How are you ensuring children’s wellness, growth and learning?
- How are parents/kinship childcarers taking care of yourselves as well?
- What advice can you give to other families?
PHONE: (505) 226-3073
EMAIL: info@navajofamilies.org
MAIL: Navajo Family Voices, P O Box 744, Farmington, NM 87499
EMAIL: info@navajofamilies.org
MAIL: Navajo Family Voices, P O Box 744, Farmington, NM 87499
What is the Deadline?
We will be accepting applications through the end of March or until funds are fully given out, whichever occurs first. Please check our website for updates. UPDATE 1/13: We have received such a huge volume of applications that the application period will very likely close much sooner than March. Please make sure you answer the questions completely and build on kinship relations for coordinated wellness. It may be helpful for the kinship family to coordinate on this information! Remember this stipend applies only to families on the Navajo Nation on the New Mexico side. UPDATED 1/14 4:00 PM: Due to overwhelming response, application acceptance will close at midnight on Friday, Jan 15.
We will be accepting applications through the end of March or until funds are fully given out, whichever occurs first. Please check our website for updates. UPDATE 1/13: We have received such a huge volume of applications that the application period will very likely close much sooner than March. Please make sure you answer the questions completely and build on kinship relations for coordinated wellness. It may be helpful for the kinship family to coordinate on this information! Remember this stipend applies only to families on the Navajo Nation on the New Mexico side. UPDATED 1/14 4:00 PM: Due to overwhelming response, application acceptance will close at midnight on Friday, Jan 15.
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