About the Early Learning Shared Services Alliance

We're on a mission to provide childcare centers and home-based providers with centralized back-office support, so that providers can grow their businesses, achieve financial stability and focus on quality programming and education.

Why We Started

Directors and/or Business Owners of a child care program wear many hats. You're educators, caregivers, accountants, marketers, grant writers, recruiters, HR managers, and more. It makes it difficult to run an operationally-efficient business, especially after the effects of COVID-19. 

The Early Learning Shared Services Alliance was created to help child care Business Owners and Directors reduce their administrative load, increase their revenues, and have the resources they need to hire and retain talented teachers, devote more funds to curriculum, staff training and development, and improve the overall quality of care and education.

Meet our Partners

Meet the Team

Kate Byrne

Executive Director

Raquel Perez

Childcare Business Coach

Lin Lindsay

Director, Ocoee Oaks Preschool and ELSSA Advisor

Alice Rogers

Childcare Bookkeeping Specialist
Meet the Team

The Benefits of Joining ELSSA

Increase enrollment and revenues

We’ll help you manage marketing and increase your online presence, share your availability, manage and help grow your waitlist to reduce future revenue gaps, and get families in the door quickly.

Automate back-office administrative work

Collect tuition on time, reduce paperwork management, improve financial record-keeping and reporting, provide affordable employee benefits, and more with the help of technology and a centralized back-office team.

Increase the quality of your program

Have more time and resources to focus on increasing quality, improving staff development and more. You’ll also receive free business coaching to help you strengthen your program and set it up for long-term success.