What's New at Eager-To-Learn: Family Child Care Business Courses
For over 25 years, Resources for Child Caring has been providing business support to the family child care providers. Now you can take a series of their engaging courses online at Eager-to-Learn.
Family Child Care Business Courses
These courses will examine the basic skills of small business management for individuals interested in operating a family child care program. It will highlight the best practices that are unique to the child care industry.
Family Child Care Contracts and Policies
Chat sessions: Mondays from 7:00-7:45 p.m. CST October 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2010
Participants who successfully complete this training will be able to set their own rules for their programs; establish a business relationship with parents; use props to communicate their business rules; avoid violating anti-discrimination laws; create contracts and policies that contain key elements; enforce contracts with parents; resolve conflicts with parents; end contracts with parents; enforce the contract in court.
Instructor: Bev Herr
Core Competency VII
CDA 7
Family Child Care Record Keeping
Chat sessions: Wednesdays from 7:00-7:45 p.m. CST November 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2010
Participants who successfully complete this training will be able to identify the benefits of good record keeping, define strategies for tracking income, define how to maintain records of business expenses, and identify typical business deductions.
Instructor: Bev Herr
Core Competency VII
CDA 7
Introduction to Family Child Care Marketing
Chat sessions: Thursdays from 7:00-7:45 p.m. CST December 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2010
Participants who successfully complete this training will be able to define marketing, communicate the benefits of their family child care program to parents, develop a marketing strategy for their family child care program and learn how to set competitive rates.
Instructor: Micki Lechner- Riehle
Core Competency VII
CDA 7
Family Child Care Legal and Insurance Issues
Chat sessions: Wednesdays from 7:00-7:45 p.m. CST Jan 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2011
Participants who successfully complete this training will be able to manage the risks of operating a family child care business, establish rules of safety, establish rules to reduce custody disputes with parents, define the Americans with Disabilities Act, identify insurance coverage for family child care businesses, and define business structures.
Instructor: Micki Lechner- Riehle
Core Competency VII
CDA 7
Family Child Care Money Management and Retirement
Chat sessions: Thursdays from 7:00-7:45 p.m. CST February 17, 24 March 3 and 10, 2011
Participants who successfully complete this training will be able to identify strategies to manage money by reducing spending and increasing savings, learn techniques for eliminating debt and raising income, define how to set financial goals, learn how to prepare for retirement by defining how much to save for retirement, learn how to estimate Social Security benefits, how to choose and IRA plan, how to choose the type of investments that best suit their individual needs, and how to work with a financial advisor.
Instructor: Bev Herr
Core Competency VII
CDA 7
Additional family child care business resources: http://resourcesforchildcare.org/index.cfm?page=business
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