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Become A Provider
Why consider making family child care a career?
If you enjoy working with young children and are willing to make a career ensuring
children grow to become HAPPY, CARING, CAPABLE,
RESPONSIBLE and RESILIENT -
PLEASE CALL US.
- Working with children is fun and rewarding!
- You can stay at home and raise your own children.
- You can enrich the lives of other children whose parents work or attend school.
- You will significantly contribute to your family’s income.
- You will be your own boss, set your own fees, set your own hours and develop your own programming.
"With the introduction to ‘Best Practices” in child care and higher standards to strive for - I see child care providers take their work more seriously and with more pride in their child care business and accomplishments. It has given them confidence in their skills and I see them articulating themselves eagerly and professionally while in the community. Family Child care is no longer ‘just baby sitting’. Our caregivers are more than pleased to tell me all they accomplish during a typical day. Recognition for their hard work and their training has given them all a much needed boost as they move forward while celebrating the one thing that brought us together….The love of children!" - Home Visitor
"I feel valued more for what I do." - Provider
How Southgate Medallion Family Day Homes helps you
We:
- Take you through an approval process that gives you credibility as a provider.
- Provide advice in setting up your home for child care.
- Refer parents to you. • provide you with our excellent Parent / Provider Agreement forms.
- Provide a reasonable fee schedule which you can choose to accept or use as a base to set your own fees.
- Collect the fees, guaranteeing your payments for the child care you provide.
- Provide in-home, flexible training, specific to family child care.
- Help you develop the skills necessary to make the work fun and fulfilling.
- Assign a consultant to be a support and mentor so you won’t have to work entirely on your own.
- Provide a resource library.
- Provide opportunities to network with other providers in your area.
- Maintain accreditation status which allows you extra funding from the Provincial Government, Children’s Services.
"Accreditation has pinpointed areas I needed to work on." - Provider
"Accreditation gives us a more respected presence in the child care field." - Provider
