Erica S

Erica is twenty-four and the mother of two daughters.  Her older daughter attends a private school on a scholarship because she was attacked by another child on the playground of her public school last year.  Erica received training through a welfare program as a medical assistant but was unable to find a job in that field. She recently found a job on her own but was called out of work on her first day with a call from her children’s daycare.  Apparently, because Erica had not found the job through an earn center, she had been re-classified and placed on a waiting list for child care—despite the fact that her children had already been receiving child care subsidies (CCIS) before Erica started working.  Luckily, Erica’s employer offered her a later start date but the loss of CCIS meant that Erica had to stay home for a month and a half when she could have been working.