Orange County’s ‘essential workers’ can get childcare from YMCA, private schools

YMCA Orange County is using 28 of its sites to give parents who are deemed “essential workers” a place for their children to go while they are on the job, and at least two Southern California-based private school companies also have shifted to emergency childcare while regular education remains online only.
“When the schools shut down, there was a lack of childcare for nurses, police and others,” said Jeff McBride, CEO of YMCA Orange County. “We had the expertise an