FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) A longtime local childcare center will close.
The YWCA of Cass Clay says it will shutter A Child’s World Daycare on 12th Avenue North in Fargo April 17th. It opened in 1997.
Several factors weighed into the decision by the YWCA Board of Directors. First among them was the financial consequences of prolonged negative cash flow, and its potential jeopardy to YWCA’s core mission of sheltering, housing and assisting survivors of domestic violence and homelessness.
The daycare center is licensed to serve 127 children but is serving around 20 children since the COVID-19 crisis and has received 11 withdrawals from care. The board of directors estimated that if it remained open, the center would lose an estimated $32,000 in April alone.
“In recent years the program had been operating at a break-even cash flow, yet still the question lingered whether this service was right to continue under the YWCA umbrella,” said CEO Erin Prochnow.
