Press-Republican PLATTSBURGH – North Country families with two kids under the age of 5 spend about $15,000 a year on childcare, according to a recent survey conducted by the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country. “We have an advocacy campaign that we have just launched this week called Stand Up for Child Care in the Adirondacks,” Jamie L. Basiliere, executive director of the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country, said. Stand Up for Child Care Adirondacks is a North Country child care advocacy coalition. It released three videos addressing challenges faced by the child care industry and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.