Staffing issues curtail Safekey before and after school programs

Staffing shortages are plaguing programs that supply before- and after-school supervision for young children successful Clark County, preventing immoderate from providing the captious work and leaving less slots disposable astatine others.

Las Vegas Valley municipalities and the Clark County Parks &Recreation Department tally the Safekey programs, which connection crafts, games and peculiar activities astatine Clark County School District simple schools.

The metropolis of Las Vegas operates the Safekey programme astatine 63 simple schools. Several sites — Crestwood, Griffith, Kelly and Tobler simple schools — aren’t yet up-and-running this schoolhouse twelvemonth owed to a deficiency of workers.

“For the metropolis of Las Vegas we person had staffing shortages for Safekey and that impacts capableness astatine our sites,” metropolis spokesperson Jace Radke said via email.

Registration is unfastened for Tobler Elementary and the tract was expected to unfastened Monday, Radke said Wednesday.

The Crestwood and Griffith sites inactive aren’t open, “but we proceed to enactment with the administrations astatine those schools,” helium said.

Kelly has alternate programming that fills the void near by the delayed Safekey reopening, Radke said.

Parents tin registry their kid for Safekey astatine a circumstantial schoolhouse and for circumstantial days done the city’s program.

Damaris Mendoza said she was lone capable to motion up her second-grade lad for after-school attraction done Safekey connected the archetypal time of classes past week astatine Bozarth Elementary School successful northwest Las Vegas.

She said a Safekey staffer told her that owed to a labour shortage and COVID-19 information protocols, she couldn’t motion up for much days.

Mendoza said the household utilized Safekey earlier the pandemic and didn’t brushwood immoderate difficulties with availability.

Mendoza signed up to nonstop her lad to a daycare halfway that provides after-school attraction and provides transportation. But it’s importantly much costly than the city’s Safekey program, which costs families $7 for each greeting and $10 for each day session.

In the meantime, she plans to proceed to cheque backmost to spot if immoderate further Safekey slots unfastened up for aboriginal dates.

The metropolis is hiring part-time Safekey tract leaders and assistants. The positions are 19-25 hours a week and the wage is $12-$14 per hour.

Workers indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 18 years aged and person a precocious schoolhouse diploma oregon General Educational Development (GED) equivalent. They besides indispensable person archetypal assistance and CPR certification by their commencement date.

Other Safekey programs

The region recreation section operates the Safekey programme successful 89 schools. As of Thursday, 33 were astatine capableness for afternoons and 21 were afloat for the greeting program.

“Low unit numbers owed to an unfavorable recruitment turnout this twelvemonth has not helped,” section spokesperson Richard Mueller said successful an email. “We are inactive recruiting unit for the program, and arsenic soon arsenic we volition person the ability, we volition proceed to instrumentality much participants astatine sites with precocious demand.”

There’s a enactment connected the county’s Safekey website that says, “Due to staffing issues, Safekey spots are constricted and connected a archetypal travel archetypal service basis.”

Other section municipalities don’t look to beryllium experiencing the aforesaid grade of staffing shortages, though.

Safekey sites operated by the metropolis of Henderson are afloat staffed and determination aren’t waiting lists, metropolis spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said earlier this month. More than 600 children are registered.

The metropolis of North Las Vegas operates 21 sites and determination aren’t waiting lists astatine immoderate of them, spokeswoman Sandy Lopez said.

Contact Julie Wootton-Greener astatine jgreener@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2921. Follow @julieswootton connected Twitter.