Have You Considered a Career in Child Care?

A career in child care can be a very rewarding choice. As a licensed home provider you can make a difference in the lives of children as well as owning a business. Child Care Answers wants to help you get started by offering FREE training classes as well as assisting you with community resources and other classes to help you succeed as a child care provider.

Did you know that Johnson and Hendricks county has a strong need for more licensed child care providers? In 2011 Child Care Answers had 426 families in Johnson and Hendricks county searching for child care but only has 132 providers available in that area.

Child Care Answers Resource and Referral Agency is a local agency serving Hamilton, Hendricks, Johnson and Marion County. Child Care Answers offers FREE training for individuals interested in beginning a child care business. Those interested in starting up a licensed center, home or registered ministry can register to attend an orientation class through us or take the class online at http://www.iaccrr.org/portal/?#tabs-training. This class gives a general overview of child care in Indiana and resources in the community. Child Care Answers also offers classes to help in advertising your child care business and record keeping. The training calendar is published four times a year and includes upcoming classes offered by Child Care Answers and early childhood education classes in the community.

For licensed child care providers a mentoring program is available to help guide them as they advance levels in Paths to Quality, Indiana’s voluntary quality rating system for child care. Classes are also available to help with guidance and discipline, stress prevention for caregivers and Exploring the Foundation to Indiana Academic Standards.

A copy of Child Care Answers training calendar can be viewed online at http://www.childcareanswers.com/. Once there, click on the provider tab and then the “training” link on the right hand side.

Exciting Opportunity to Make Visuals

Join our Inclusion Specialist, Tory Masters, for an exciting Make and Take It session on Saturday, January 7th. The session begins at 9:30 am and for an hour I will go through all the visual supports and how to use them with children, then for another hour or so, I will give you time to make those visuals. The cost is only $5 per person! Below is a list of what I will have available for you to make:

• Tucker Turtle’s social story for handling frustration
• A visual schedule (please bring photos of your children following your daily routine to use if you want to use them!)
• Center Control
•  Stop Signs
•  Solutions Kit for problem solving
•  Emotional Check in

It will be a fun filled morning and we have limited seats. Once you register and payment and finalized, we will give you all the final details of the day! Feel free to register a friend and pass this information along to others! You must be completely registered and payment received by Thursday, January 5th!