A project was conducted in the metropolitan Kansas City community to assess the current state of child care needs of working parents. One project goal was to provide employers with information to help them make decisions about how much responsibility to assume for child care and which employee policies to pursue. A second goal was to assess the amount of child care available in metropolitan areas to determine where additional resources were currently needed. Related objectives were to (1) survey employees to ascertain their current child care situations to provide better information for corporate decisions about child care; (2) develop corporate research profiles to assist in the development of child care and family management options for parent employees; (3) construct neighborhood profiles to describe the current supply of and demand for child care; (4) obtain current information on the number and location of child care homes, child care centers, and the number and ages of children served by the child care market; and (5) coordinate metropolitan-wide child care information and referral resources. Due to the project, more than 10 companies expressed interest in signing contracts with Family and Children Services of Kansas City, Inc., for child care services. Several tables are provided. The appendices, which comprise two-thirds of the document, include employer surveys, a sample employer profile, a sample neighborhood profile, child care survey comparing home and center care, and numerous charts (e.g., one illustrating absenteeism related to type of child care arrangement). (RH)