Ebook: Family Child Care Guide to Visits, Inspections, and Interviews

Learn the skills and best practices to make receiving visits more productive and worry-free As a family child care professional, you nurture and teach children during their most formative years. Being a family child care provider also means you must attend to families, licensors, food program representatives, coaches, and other people who visit your in-home business. This guide is filled with everything you need to successfully prepare for and host visits from people involved in the operation and regulation of your business. This book includes case studies featuring more than twenty common challenges that can occur during visits and skill-based solutions and successful strategies you can use to prepare for those situations. It also provides checklists and self-examination activities to help you welcome and connect with potential families, specialists, and inspectors in positive ways, as well as support, guidance, and techniques to enhance your program. Donna C. Hurley has been writing and delivering trainings for providers, parents, and home visitors or more than forty years. Sharon Woodward has more than twenty years of experience supporting family child care professionals.