The Hopkinsville YMCA has received state approval to serve as a day-care center for children of people employed in the response to the coronavirus outbreak. They include health-care facility workers, first-responders, corrections officers and Department for Community Based Services employees.
The YMCA, on Eagle Way, is currently closed for regular operations under Gov. Andy Beshear’s order this week to temporarily shutter gyms, theaters, concert halls and hair and nail salons. Another order closed child care centers.
The Y’s center will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday for children ages 6 to 12. It will open at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 20.
The fee for care is $30 a day.
Parents may register online beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19.
Additional information is available by emailing shanna@hopkinsvilleymca.org.
The following information should be provided on the employer’s letterhead:
- Identifying information for the employee
- Employee’s position within the healthcare entity
- Location(s) of place of employment
- Name of children who will be enrolled and dates of birth
- Contact information of human resources personnel to verify employment if necessary.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
