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Enhance Your Child Care Business

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Business & Employer Resources Opening a Child Care Business Professional Development

Building a better child care program

Just as young learners are always changing and learning, your program can benefit from opportunities to grow and improve too. Take time to consider how to continuously improve your environment and curriculum, attract new families to your program, and shore up your finances. Consider these possibilities to help you build a better child care for your children, their families, and your staff.

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Update your program's info

One of the easiest ways to ensure that families find you is to make sure the information in our databases is up-to-date. If you've had any recent changes, please reach out to us! Contacta en español.
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Market your program

Whether you’re getting your program off the ground, filling vacancies, or looking to expand, you should know how to get your name out there. Take a look at the resources below to see how to best market your program based on your needs.

Support for

Small Business Marketing

A number of local and national organizations offer marketing support to small businesses like child care programs.

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  • Business Ownership Initiative (BOI): Provides education and financial services to entrepreneurs through three teams: Business Ownership Initiative, the Central Indiana Women’s Business Center, and the Hispanic Business Council.

  • U.S. Small Business Administration: The SBA website contains a number of helping tools for managing your business, including marketing and sales.

  • Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE): For over 50 years, SCORE has served as America’s premier source of free business mentoring and education. As a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), SCORE has helped more than 11 million entrepreneurs through mentoring, workshops and educational resources since 1964.

  • Indiana Small Business Development Center (ISBDC): The Indiana SBDC creates a positive and measurable impact on the formation, growth, and sustainability of Indiana’s small businesses by providing entrepreneurs expert guidance and a comprehensive network of resources, including marketing.

  • Child Care Aware of America: Child Care Aware® of America works with more than 400 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies nationwide, including Child Care Answers. They offer a number of resources for providers, including starting a child care business.

  • Indiana Association for Education of Young Children: Membership to INAEYC gets you access to the latest research, informative resources, networking, and educational opportunities to help you lay the foundation for your students’ school readiness, academic success, and adult achievement.

Programs that

Improve Your Program Quality and Visibility

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Paths to QUALITY™ Program for Child Care Providers

June 23, 2021
on my way pre-k
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Becoming an On My Way Pre-K Provider

July 27, 2021
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Funding Your Child Care Business

July 24, 2021
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COVID-19: Navigating Child Care Tours for Families

With the added safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many things to consider when giving a tour. Let us help you showcase your program to families in this "new normal".
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Marketing Strategies

Accreditation

Your child care program can be accredited through national and international accrediting bodies. The following have been approved by the Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning in partnership with Paths to QUALITY™. Even if you don’t plan to participate in Paths to QUALITY, they are great opportunities for you to showcase your dedication to quality:

  • Council on Accreditation (COA)
  • National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
  • National Association for the Family Child Care (NAFCC)
  • National Early Childhood Program Accreditation (NECPA)
  • Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)
  • National Afterschool Association (NAA)
  • Cognia (formerly AdvanceEd)
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Family Engagement

The bonds you build with the children in your program are critical, but the relationships you have with their families are also important. The following resources can help you understand what it means to have quality engagement with your families, how you’re currently doing in this area, and how you can improve:

  • Family Engagement Toolkit
  • The Global Family Research Project
  • Strengthening Families Protective Factors framework, Center for the Study of Social Policy
  • The Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Interactive Framework
  • Epstein’s Framework of Six Types of Involvement
  • The U.S. Department of Education’s, Partners in Education A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships
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