Congregations Caring for Children

What Congregations Can Do to Support and

What Congregations Can Do to Support and

What Congregations Can Do to Support and

What Congregations Can Do to Support and

What Congregations Can Do to Support and

Expand Quality Child Care Services

Expand Quality Child Care Services

Expand Quality Child Care Services

Expand Quality Child Care Services

Expand Quality Child Care Services

Start or expand an infant/toddler or preschool child care center on site.

Contract for an outside provider to use your congregation's facilities for a child

care program.

Financially support another congregation in their efforts to start or expand a

child care center.

Create a mentoring partnership with another congregation to help them develop

a new child care program.

Offer through your congregation needed nontraditional child care, such as care

for children with disabilities or illnesses, evening or weekend care.

Provide before  and/or after school care on site.

Help an off site after school program with volunteers, transportation from  local

school site(s) to the after school program, supplies, etc.

Encourage and help congregation members to start family child care programs.

Host informational meetings for people interesting in starting licensed family

child care programs in their homes.

Provide basic supplies for those needing help to start up licensed child care in

their homes.

Contract for family child care services to extend your congregation's own child

care center.

Share facilities with family child care providers in the following ways:

Provide drop in care for mildly ill children, caregiver vacations, or

emergencies.

Share a playground, and/or recreation room for play during winter months.

Offer space for parenting and other early childhood education classes.

Include respite care for children of attendees.

Become a designated site for parents and children to meet as part of an

emergency plan.

Organize or host a local network of providers for peer support and in service

training sessions.

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