
VIDEOTAPES
| Dreams and Realities: Caring for Young Children Programs 1-5 - Family Day Care: Is it right for you?; Getting Started; Partners in Child Care; Ages and Stages; and Helping the Caregiver - Is family child care a good job choice for you, how to get started, working with parents and child development information. | |
| How to Start a Family Day Care - Information on getting started as a family child care provider. | |
| The Business of Family Child Care: How to be Successful in your Caring Profession - In introductory look at record keeping, taxes, the Food Program, contracts, insurance and tips on running your new or established family child care business. | |
| Setting Up the Learning Environment - This video takes you through the step-by-step process of dividing space into defined areas, stocking the areas with many choices of materials and planning child-accessible storage for materials. |
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BOOKS
| Tips and Tidbits: A book for Family Day Care Providers by Janet Gonzalez-Mena - Designed to help in a concrete way solve some of the problems you confront in your day-to-day work with children. | |
| Caring for Children in your Home: A handbook for Day Care Providers by the Ohio Department of Human Services - This handbook suggests ideas and provides information about child development, health and safety. | |
| Making Home-Based Child Care Work for You by Holly McDonough-Abunassar - This book takes an in-depth look at family child care as professionals, business management, budgeting, curriculum planning, parent/provider communication, marketing, facility set-up, money-saving tips and choosing a provider. Parents and providers will have the opportunity to look at both sides of many issues regarding child care. |
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