Since the coronavirus pandemic started, those who work in health care or in essential services have had to juggle work and family.
Emergency child care centres throughout the region have been able to ease some of the stress. “I was lucky I was able to get one of the last spots here at this daycare centre,” said Nicole Gilchrist, an Advanced Care Paramedic.
It’s 8 a.m., Gilchrist is dropping her daughter Emma off at Lakewoods Child Care Centre in Oshawa before going to work. Three to five days a week, the advanced care paramedic and her husband, who’s a firefighter, use the service. “We can go to work and do our jobs while we know that our daughter is well taken care of in a safe environment,” said Gilchrist.