COVID-19 UPDATE: Gov. Justice commits $6 million to support child care providers and families; announces plan for testing and monitoring college students

Press Release

Gov. Jim Justice joined West Virginia health leaders and other officials today for his latest daily press briefing regarding the State's COVID-19 response.
$6 MILLION COMMITTED IN SUPPORT OF CHILD CARE PROVIDERS AND FAMILIES
During Wednesday's briefing, Gov. Justice announced that he has committed $6 million of CARES Act funding to ensure the continued support of child care providers and families through the end of the year.

"I'm delighted that we solved the riddle on this," Gov. Justice said. "West Virginia received a total of $23 million from another bucket of CARES Act money, specifically to provide support for our state's essential workers and our child care network. But these funds were depleted and this program was set to end on September 30th.

"We've been working really, really hard to try to find a way, through the DHHR, that we could continue this on if the federal funding drops off, because we feel like this is really important," Gov. Justice continued.

This new funding will aid essential workers across the state, providing support to 3,400 families each month through the end of December 2020.​

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