Arluck Consulting / Who We Work With / Care Providers

Filled seats from employers who actually pay on time.

We bring licensed New York child care centers together with employers who want to sponsor seats for their employees' children. The result is a stable, multi-year revenue channel you do not have to market for.

What is changing on the employer side

Until recently, employers had limited reason to contract directly with child care centers. The economics did not work, and the legal structure to support it was clunky. Both of those have changed. Employers that contract with licensed providers can now recover a meaningful share of the spend through tax credits, which is producing the first serious wave of demand in years.

That shift is the reason we exist. We help employers do this well. The other side of that work is provider relationships, and that is what this page is about.

Why partner with us

  • Demand we send your way is real demand. Employers contract under a multi-year structure with payment terms negotiated up front. This is not a parent-by-parent referral or a discount-marketplace listing. It is a direct contractual relationship between your center and the employer, with us handling the structuring on the employer side.
  • You stay in charge of operations. Admissions criteria, staffing, curriculum, hours, capacity. None of that changes. We are not running your center. We are routing employer-sponsored families to it and standing up the arrangements that make it work.
  • You do not need to learn the tax code. The credit mechanics live on the employer side. Your job is to deliver care and bill normally. We make sure the documentation on our side meets the bar so the employer's claim holds up.
  • It is a free channel for you. No platform fee, no cut of tuition, no listing charge. Our compensation comes from the employer side.

What we are looking for

We are building a network of licensed child care providers, initially across New York. Good fit:

  • Centers licensed by the relevant state or city authority (we know the variations between NYC, NYS, and surrounding counties).
  • Centers willing to consider longer-term framework agreements rather than one-off enrollments.
  • Centers in neighborhoods where employer demand exists. We can share where we are seeing demand, in confidence, on a call.
  • Centers that admit children of employees on at least the same basis they admit anyone else. If your center prioritizes availability for members of a particular faith community, we may not be a fit.

If you are unsure whether your center fits, ask. We have productive conversations with single-site operators, multi-site chains, faith-based programs, and employer-operated programs looking to bring in additional sponsors.

What to expect

A first call is informal. We share where employer demand is showing up, you share what kind of arrangement would actually be useful for your center, and we figure out together whether there is anything to build on. There is no contract or commitment on the first call. If we agree to move forward, we will come back with a draft framework agreement and walk through it slowly.

Important: nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice for your center. Your specific licensing, contractual, and tax position needs your own attorney and accountant. We work alongside them, not instead of them.

Let us introduce ourselves

We want to meet good centers, including ones that are not sure they want to be on a list. If your center serves children under 5 in the New York area, we would like to talk.

Tell us a bit about yourself when you book.