Starting a Home-Based Child Care Business, Part 2: Health and Safety
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- Date of Publication
- November 18, 2022
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Overview
Course Information
Health and safety of children in care is the #1 priority for all early childhood professionals. Home-based child care has specific requirements that must be addressed to ensure health and safety practices are properly integrated into a home-based child care.
This 2-hour course is for prospective home-based child care business owners and will introduce some of the health and safety standards, best practices, and ways to properly implement these in your home-based child care.
After completing this course, the learner will be able to:
- Describe and follow the Minimum Standards for health and safety for the type of child care home you decide to operate, and
- Describe and adopt best practices related to health and safety in your home-based child care setting.
The development of this online course was 100% funded by federal Child Care and Development Funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as part of an $8,000,000 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission.
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