Finding and affording quality child care has always been a struggle for working parents. But as a result of the pandemic, many child care operators had to shut their doors and were not able to recover enough to open back up, creating an even bigger shortage of qualified and affordable child care providers nationally, but especially here in Utah. To address the child care crisis in Utah, the State Office of Child Care gave Salt Lake Community College’s Workforce and Economic Development a grant to provide training for those running home-based or center-based programs. The grant, Business Training and Coaching for Child Care Providers, enabled courses on how to draft a business plan, create a budget, basic marketing, and how to apply for funding and grants, for providers. With the success of the program, and the overwhelming number of providers signing up, the Office of Child Care renewed the grant and added additional funds to create two new programs, Budgeting and Leadership Principles...