Family Child Care Administration Course

Through interactive sessions this 16-hour course guides participants to explore best practices in family child care as well as basic business practices like how to project a family child care business budget, record keeping, organising expenses and paperwork to be ready for tax season. We will identify and review policies and procedures needed in family child care and as a final assignment participants will create or review and update their own Parent Package containing their centre’s policies, contracts, daily schedule, programming, etc. This course will require participants to have a basic working knowledge of word processing to complete a parent package document. This course is not suitable for those requiring professional development to renew an ECE or ECEA certificate. 

Note: All course participants must have grade 8 English written and oral skills (or equivalent) 

Objectives: 

• Become familiar with CCRR best practices in family child care.
• Identify and review policies and procedures and create or review a Parent Package, containing the centre’s policies, contracts, daily schedule, programming, etc. which has to be approved prior to Session 7.
• Explore basic business practices.
• Obtain basic knowledge about Affordable Child care Benefit.
• Learn effective strategies for forming positive relationships with families.

Suitable for registered or licensed family child care providers who would like to refine their administration skills and/or review their Parent Package.

This course is for participants who have taken Westcoast’s 20-hour Responsible Adult course at WCCRC, and would like to continue their career in child care by opening their own family child care business.

This 16-hour course alone does not qualify participants to become licensed family child care providers, or open a family child care business. For more information contact your local Child Care Resource and Referral Office (CCRR) or Licensing Office.

Important – Participants must: 

• Carefully read all policies.
• Be 19 years of age at the time of registration.
• Have Grade 8 English written and oral skills (or equivalent) to actively participate during class.
• Attend all sessions to receive a certificate of completion.
• There are no make-up sessions.
• Enable the camera and microphone to participate in this course.

Note: 

• It is strongly recommended that you join from a computer, rather than a smartphone.
• The course workbook is copyrighted material and should not be copied or reproduced in any way.
• Registrants have one-year online access to the workbook, which contains all of the course materials, as well as valuable tools and resources.
• This is a non-credit course (cannot be applied towards the completion of a degree).

Facilitator(s): Vesna Krcmar