The 2022 Child Care Relief Fund is Coming Soon!

Texas Workforce Commission • February 24, 2022

Attention Center & Home-Based Child Care Providers!

The Texas Workforce Commission wants to help your child care business thrive as we continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. More relief funds will be available in 2022 — over four times more than what was available in 2021 — to help child care programs get through the pandemic. TWC will invite child care programs to apply in early 2022. This funding will reimburse allowable, documented operational costs including personnel (payroll, wage stipends, retention bonuses, etc.) incurred between September 1, 2021, and May 31, 2023.


To be eligible for 2022 Child Care Relief Funds, your child care business must be:

  1. Open to provide child care services at the time of application OR be temporarily closed due to public health, financial hardship, or other COVID-19–related reasons at the time of application (with plans to reopen within 30 days);
  2. Actively licensed or registered in the State of Texas with Child Care Regulation (CCR) by February 28, 2022;
  3. In good standing with CCR; and 4 Committed to remaining open through at least May 2023.


Eligible providers will receive an invitation email from TWC with instructions to log into the application portal. There is no need to contact TWC or Child Care Regulation (CCR). Each eligible child care program will receive an application link through the secure email address on file with Child Care Regulation. If you believe you are eligible but have not received an email by April 1, 2022, please reach out to CCReliefFunds@trelliscompany.org.


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