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I'm starting a Home Daycare soon. How do your present everything? Did you have something made or just use a everyday folder to give the parents?
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When I interview with parents and am ready to enroll, I give them a folder with the required paperwork to be filled out and returned. I also give them some information to keep and my handbook.... which is in a bound/plastic sleeve for easy reading and so that it is easy to find and store for parents to reference as needed. -
I have the cheap report folders, that I heat glue on my logo to. I buy them at this time of year when the folders are about .05 cents. People have made comments on how nice looking they are.
At the interview, I have a little cheat sheet of my PHB rules and policies and go over them just briefly. My PHB explains things in detail.
If I really like the family and am interested in having them join my DC, I will give them a copy of my PHB. I ask them to take it home, read it and if they have any questions to call me or email me. That night, I send them a thank you email.
I never call anyone back, unless it is someone that I really really liked. When they contact me back (you normally get a good feel if they want to join or not at your interview, but not always) I invite them to come for a second interview where I go over all of the paperwork, have them sign everything and answer any more questions, and they pay me their deposit and or start up fees. BTW I email them all the paperwork to print and fill out at home before coming to the second interview.
Once we sign everything, I go and make copies and then give them everything they signed back in the folder that my PHB comes in.
it sounds like a lot of work, because it is......Last edited by daycare; 09-13-2012, 07:48 AM.Comment
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I have a file folder. On the outside I have a sticker with my logo, my name address and other contact information along with my hours.
Inside on the left is a label that says these forms must be completed in order to start day care. The right hand pocket is labeled, keep these papers at home for your reference.Comment
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I have a website ... which has my PARENT HANDBOOK... ABOUT ME... PHOTO GALLERY... and info about my daycare...
When I recieve a phone call regarding child care... My first question is usually .. How did you get my name and number...?
I like to know if they were referred by a friend... past client.. current client...
or if they found me on the Child Care Licensing website.. or by some other method..
Second question...
Do you have access to the internet?
Generally speaking..Practically EVERYONE has access to the internet in this day and age...
I give them my website...
I tell them to go there... read my PARENT HANDBOOK completely..
and if .. after reading through it.. they are still interested in enrollment.. they can contact me by phone or email to set up a day and time to meet me and tour daycare...At that time I cover the high points of my handbook ... verbally... so that just in case they didn't actually READ IT.. I have stated the big issues OUT LOUD...
After they have toured the daycare.. I either email my enrollment forms to them.. or.. I give them a copy myself..
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