Understanding your role and responsibilities as a family home provider

What Will I Learn?

• Understand role as an In-home and family home child care provider
• Explore ideas on increasing level of professionalism
• Gain information on setting up child care environment
• Understand how to maintain compliance with the Provider Agreement
• Become familiar with child development
• Gain information about required Record-Keeping procedures
• Learn more about keeping children healthy and safe

Requirements

Students will need paper and a pen/pencil to write responses to pre/post-test items, and to jot down notes.

Description

The Family Child Day Care Home and In-Home Provider Orientation course is designed for all newly registered Family Child Day Care Home and In-Home Providers in Louisiana. This course is divided into two parts in which each part includes a series of lectures. In part 1, providers will ?understand their role as a Family Child Care Provider, gain information on setting up their child care environment, explore ideas on increasing their level of professionalism, identify tools to help them create a parent handbook, and understand how to maintain compliance with the Provider Agreement. In part 2, providers will ?gain information about required record-keeping procedures, become familiar with child development, learn how to create a daily schedule for children, and learn more about keeping children healthy and safe. This course is worth 4 training credit hours.

Who is the target audience?
Family Home and In-Home Child Care Providers in the state of Louisiana