Child care options continue to be limited in Greenville County.

It has become an ongoing struggle for families to find reliable, affordable care for their children. According to Greenville First Steps, there is a one- to two-year waiting period for more than 4,000 children to get into child care facilities within the county.

Greenville First Steps, a local nonprofit organization, continues to explore different strategies to help shrink the local shortage of child care spots. One of these strategies is to create more home-based child care. Only 51 out of the 223 registered providers in Greenville County are in-home child care providers.

Derek Lewis, the nonprofit’s executive director, said the main advantage of opening a home-based operation rather than a center-based child care would be

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