WATCH: MAHUBE-OTWA Community Needs Assessment: Child Care Costs in Northern Minnesota

DETROIT LAKES (KDLM) – MAHUBE-OTWA, a Community Action Agency that provides services and resources to help residents fight poverty in the area has created a series of videos to help highlight findings from their latest Community Needs Assessment.

The assessment gathered vital information in the Spring of 2021 from service recipients, stakeholders and staff from the five county area the organization serves: Mahnomen, Hubbard, Becker, Otter Tail and Wadena.

The organization plans to release videos each month to highlight the needs and what MAHUBE-OTWA is doing to help those in need become self-sufficient members of society.

This month, MAHUBE-OTWA is focusing on child care costs in Northern Minnesota finding that low income families are paying up to 43% of their household income on child care. MAHUBE-OTWA provides child care assistance, helping 700 families last year pay for child care.

A copy of this month’s video is below.