
Explore your role as a family child care home or in-home provider, learn how to set up your environment, boost professionalism, and create a parent handbook while understanding compliance.
Assess your prior knowledge through true/false questions about home-based family childcare and sharing policies with parents. Explore professional development and regulatory requirements, plus provider agreements for receiving child care payments.
Define role and responsibilities of a family child care home provider, covering professionalism, marketing, decorating home, setting up environment, policy development, and compliance items like background checks and first aid.
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Explore the role of a family child care home provider as a professional, registered caregiver offering a safe, warm home-like setting that supports healthy development and partnerships with families.
Balance home and business by posting hours, safeguarding privacy, ensuring only you supervise unless staff pass criminal background checks, and maintaining a professional appearance and organized learning space.
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Set up a safe, child-sized space with furniture and low bookcases. Use thrift stores and agency resources for materials, displays, menus, policies, and outdoor play.
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Explore state and national programs that support professional development for Louisiana family child care providers, including pathways, scholarships, and required competencies to earn the CTA credential.
Learn how to navigate the provider agreement and stay compliant with regulatory requirements for family child day care, including fire safety inspections, rate reporting, attendance logs, and mandated training.
Understand mandatory criminal background checks for all adults in or working at your home, plus required CPR certification, security measures, and compliance steps for equipment installation, training, and ongoing records.
Explore part two of the orientation, focusing on professionalism and compliance, record keeping for children and business records, and key resources to support daily planning and safety.
Gain information on required recordkeeping, become familiar with child development, and create a daily plan while learning about health, safety, and signs of abuse through a true/false assessment.
Explore insurance considerations and how the federal CACFP reimburses meals and snacks for licensed family child care providers, enhancing nutrition and access for low-income families.
Keep organized records for each child and your childcare business, including immunization, emergency contacts, tuition, and training certificates, to meet Department of Education requirements and stay compliant.
Apply sound business principles while prioritizing child development across physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and language domains; cover milestones, fine and gross motor skills, and health and safety.
Identify age-appropriate developmental milestones and adapt activities to each child's pace, supporting physical, cognitive, language, social and emotional growth through secure relationships and varied play.
Plan and organize time, space, and activities for mixed-age groups to support an organized environment and routines. Foster developmentally appropriate interactions as older and younger children learn from each other.
Use Louisiana's birth to 5 standards to shape your day of learning for birth to 5 children, guiding curriculum, lesson plans, and age-appropriate activities.
Avoid television for children under two and do not use tv as a babysitter, while outlining teaching approaches that respect each child's developmental milestones, age, and routines.
Plan healthy meals for children with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low fat dairy, and lean protein while managing allergies, sids prevention, shaken baby syndrome, and medication administration and transport safety.
Review health and safety practices for family child care, including hand washing, accident proofing, safe storage, nutrition guidelines, development timelines, and mandated reporting responsibilities.
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.