Business Expertise for Early Childcare Educators in Family Child Care

Course Description: The successful family child care business means that you are able to serve more children and more families. This 15-hour course, approved for 1.5 CEUs by Mass AEYC, reviews the skills and knowledge needed to own, operate or manage a successful family child care program.  The course is delivered through six 2 ½ hour sessions. Each module includes learning in a lecture-type setting, small group, large group, personal reflection activities, a short assessment of the module’s learning goals. Put together, these activities build your reflection guide and business plan. At the conclusion of the course, each participant will have completed scoring their Business Administration Scale (BAS) program assessment, will have completed a detailed and full action plan on ways to improve that score, and will have finished the first draft of their program’s Business Plan.
Objectives:
1.  Rate their program’s Personnel and training practices against the best practices outlined in the PAS/BAS and QRIS
2.  Appraise their program’s fiscal management practices and suggest improvements
3.  Evaluate their program’s system of evaluation and planning and create a SWOT analysis
4.  Select effective internal and external marketing practices that will improve their program
5.  Create the first draft of their program’s Business Plan

More Information

EEC Training Hours: 15

CEU: 1.5

Core Competency Alignment: Area:  7 (Program Planning and Development)

QRIS Standard Alignment: FCC QRIS Standard # 5A.2.2