For me,
I couldn't do those long of hours per kid. I haven't ever had a kid that could tolerate that unless they had two full days off during the week. These guys NEED to be with their parents with many hours AWAKE every day. There's no cheating a clock... twelve hours is twelve hours. That's the math I care about. Doing rates based on hours is way easier than dealing with a kid who doesn't have much face time with their parents.... imho
I have a friend who has centers and she did the open hour thing for a while. She had so many clients using all or nearly all of the twelve hours that she ended up having to do an adjusted rate for early pick up and a higher rate for the "possibility" of doing a twelve hour day.
Once she attached money to it it dropped dramatically. Kids who were in care twelve hours a day for months went to nine hours a day the day the rate changed. It's amazing how much attaching money to total hours really gets the total hours down to what they really need. That's great for the kids and the parents.
Can you tell me how you feel about kids being in care twelve hours? Do you have a population base that rarely uses it even tho it's available at no additional cost?
I couldn't do those long of hours per kid. I haven't ever had a kid that could tolerate that unless they had two full days off during the week. These guys NEED to be with their parents with many hours AWAKE every day. There's no cheating a clock... twelve hours is twelve hours. That's the math I care about. Doing rates based on hours is way easier than dealing with a kid who doesn't have much face time with their parents.... imho
I have a friend who has centers and she did the open hour thing for a while. She had so many clients using all or nearly all of the twelve hours that she ended up having to do an adjusted rate for early pick up and a higher rate for the "possibility" of doing a twelve hour day.
Once she attached money to it it dropped dramatically. Kids who were in care twelve hours a day for months went to nine hours a day the day the rate changed. It's amazing how much attaching money to total hours really gets the total hours down to what they really need. That's great for the kids and the parents.
Can you tell me how you feel about kids being in care twelve hours? Do you have a population base that rarely uses it even tho it's available at no additional cost?
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