You’re calling it turnover,
it might be child care.
START SOLVING THE PROBLEM YOU MAY BE MISDIAGNOSING.
And a leading reason employees across all income levels reduce hours, change jobs, or leave the workforce entirely. On average, an Ohio family with two children spends $19,000 per year on child care—nearly a third of the median income.
Child care is unaffordable for most of the workforce…
78%
of parents in Cuyahoga County say child care is inaccessible.
...and it’s costing your business more than you think.
Every year, Northeast Ohio businesses lose
$1,700
PER WORKING PARENT
in lost productivity and recruitment costs.
Start solving the problem you may be misdiagnosing.
Identify where child care is affecting your workforce and take action.
About Early Matters NEO
We’re a growing coalition working toward a future where every family in Northeast Ohio has access to quality, affordable child care—so our workforce can grow, our businesses can thrive, and our region can reach its full potential.
Coalition Members
Learn more about how coalition members are supporting working parents and employers.
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Starting Point
Starting Point is supporting northeast Ohio employers by connecting working parents to high-quality child care options that work for them.
Starting Point is also the local lead for Ohio’s new Child Care Business Partnerships program that can support your workforce by subsidizing the cost of implementing child care benefits for two years and helping you build partnerships with child care programs in your community.
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Greater Cleveland Works
Greater Cleveland Works is the designated workforce development board for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County — leading innovative initiatives that better connect people to quality jobs and employers to talent, raising and distributing funding to strengthen our local ecosystem, and expanding access to wraparound services that reduce racial disparities, enable economic mobility, and grow our regional economy.
Greater Cleveland Works supports employers in creating strategies for talent attraction and retention through best practices that create high-quality employment experiences.
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Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood | Invest in Children
In 2025, the National Association of Counties (NACo) tapped Cuyahoga County and six other peer localities from around the country to serve as its inaugural Childcare Supply Network, an aspect of the Investing in America project.
The group, composed of professionals from the child care, philanthropic and economic development sectors, examined how families’ access to affordable, high‑quality child care influences local economies and shapes the future workforce. It identified community‑level barriers to child care availability and collaborated to design sustainable solutions that meet local child care needs.