What are some of the challenges an operator may face when trying to set up a Daycare in 2006?
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First you have to obtain a license and follow strict state guidelines regarding ie. building specs,child to adult ratio,recruiting and keeping dependable loving people,accurate tax and bookkeeping and payroll records,dealing with unruly children without corporal punishment,parents abusing their time limits,high rent for building.Assist of nutritionist for meal planning.Parents who won't pay(could require a 2 week deposit)
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I found some excellent resources on creating your day care business:\n\nChild Care Center Business Plan Workbook http://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nStarting a Daycare Business \nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm\nHow to Start a Quality Child Care Business http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-29.pdf
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call your local dept of human services....they usually keep a list of child care providers that they leave out for clients to browse through.\n\n\nALSO: put a ad in your local newspare...put out some flyers
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that's harder and harder to do these days.  i would start off at a daycare that doesn't require a degree, they still exist.  then go from there, some places don't necessarily require a degree if you have the experience.
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You may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm  It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nFor licensing requirements, here is a state-by-state list of contact agencies handling daycare licensing http://www.nccic.org/statedata/dirs/regoffic.html#oh
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Try asking at the department of human services or visit the link below and enquire.  http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Facts-About-Starting-an-Adult-Daycare-Home-Business&id=46196
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You may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.com It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nSome examples of business plans on daycare (free) include:\n\nSBA How to Start a Quality Child Care http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-29.pdf \nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nCanada http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_MB%2Fdisplay&lang=en&cid=1099483437463&c=GuideHowto\nhttp://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,290241,00.html \n\nPlanMagic.com and Palo Alto software both have samples of business plans as well, but they are in the paid versions of their software and not free\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html
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The best way to start, if you need organization or a better list of things to improve, is to use the ITERS (Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale) (www.tcpress.com).\nAt my child care center we go through this ITERS ratings check list regularly to guide us in all our proposals and prioritizing.  Even state grants we receive for improvements have to be backed up by this Rating Scale (here in California).\nOnce you have some ideas of what needs improvement, make another list with categories like these: Goals (for improvement - like better safety), Methods (what you plan to do to reach the goals), Who (will be in charge of making it happen), Approximate Cost, and Dates (so no one lags).\nI hope this helps.
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http://forms.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/education.jsp?nxtg=632c0a1c0501-985D7BC1289D94E1&product=100000141&search=online+child+development+course\n\nI hope that's what you're looking for.\nOtherwise, call one of the local day care centers.  I used to work in a couple different ones, and someone was always working on their CDA.
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The first step is to prepare a business plan. Even if you will not be applying for a bank loan, a business plan helps you to think through your business - what it needs, who it will benefit, how much it will cost, and what is its potential. Here are free business plans on childcare business that you may want to look into:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nAs for the licenses and requirements in your state, the Administration for Children and Families provide a state by state listing of contacts for licensing and regulations governing child care businesses:\nhttp://www.nccic.org/statedata/dirs/regoffic.html\n\nIn PA, you contact:\n\nPennsylvania Department of Public Welfare \nBureau of Child Day Care \nOffice of Children, Youth and Families \nHealth and Welfare Building, Room 131 \nP.O. Box 2675 \nHarrisburg, PA 17105-2675 \nPhone: 717-787-8691 \nFax: 717-787-1529 \nHotline: 877-4-PA-KIDS (within state)\nWeb site: http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/child/\nChildCare/003670906.htm \n\nFor a list of Licensing offices:\nhttp://www.dpw.state.pa.us/child/ChildCare/003670565.htm\nand\nhttp://www.dpw.state.pa.us/child/ChildCare/003670452.htm\n\n\nAs for grants, contrary to what you heard, the Government hardly gives out grants to help start a for-profit business unless you are in a rural depressed area (Philly obviously is not) or you are an American Indian living in a reservation.\n\nNonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same - hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.\n\nEven SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html... \n\n"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."\n\nHere is a listing o
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There is a high need for daycare in the US because so many families have two parents that work.  Someone has to watch the children while the parents are at work unless there is an older child to care for them until mom or dad come home.
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You've got alot of planning ahead of you. A building, employees, supplies, & etc.. My GrangMother done that back in the 30's & she done really good but got out of if in the 70's beacause it was costing too much. She had her own children & some of us grand children as her employees. So you know if things were getting to hard then, how are they going to be now. Unless you already are a big franchise and trying to extend.. WELL I WISH YOU ALL THE LUCK...THATS FOR THE BIRDS IN MY BOOK..
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I suggest you read the book "From Babysitter to Business Owner: Getting the Most of Your Home Child Care Business" by Patricia Dischler. It has everything you need to learn how to start a babysitting business.
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You can start by reading free business plans on childcare business - they give you an overview of the industry, and what strategies you must take to succeed in the business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm \nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nWith regards to licensing, contact this agency:\n\nDepartment of Children & Families \nChild Care Regulation Office \n1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 6 \nRoom 389A \nTallahassee, FL 32399-0700 \nPhone: 850-488-4900 \nFax: 850-488-9584 \nWeb site: http://www.myflorida.com/childcare/
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daycare, non profit, open your own daycare (so really your a business owner)
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You may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm  It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nGood luck!
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Without special circumstances, currently 18 years old.\n\nIn order to regulate health & safety, prevent child labor abuses and to help promote universal education, laws are in effect to cover this.\n\nSpecial circumstances would be:\nGetting a "work permit" if under 18. This allows the government to regulate hours and types of work and to make sure time is left for schooling if the person is not a high school graduate.\nFamily members of the owner are allowed to do work at an age where a non-family member cannot be hired to do the same thing.\n\nThere may be variations on this from state to state, but this is a summary of the common restrictions.