Strengthening Business Practices: Fiscal Management (Part 1 and 2) – Budgets, Planning, Projections, Financial Reports and Internal Controls:

This workshop is part of the Strengthening Business Practices for Child Care Programs series, a business practice curriculum designed by The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance. The content and activities are designed to strengthen providers’ foundational knowledge of sound fiscal management and business operations.

This training consists of two parts (1 and 2) – You must attend both sessions in order to receive 6 hours of quality assured training.

Part 1: Budgets, Planning and Projections: In this module, participants will learn about building program budgets, understand how to project for future business costs and learn a process for building a budget and how to use it for decision-making throughout the year. Lastly, participants will also explore how to project business costs, generate additional income, and plan strategically for future goals.

Part 2: Financial Reports and Internal Controls: In this module, participants will be introduced to financial reports that can help you to better manage the program’s finances as well as learn about the concept of internal systems and how they can strengthen your program’s fiscal health.

Strengthening Business Practices: Marketing Your Program

This workshop is part of the Strengthening Business Practices for Family Child Care Programs series, a business practice curriculum designed by The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance. The content and activities are designed to strengthen providers’ foundational knowledge of sound fiscal management and business operations. This module will focus on learning the value of both external and internal marketing efforts.

You will learn how to articulate the features and benefits of the program and understand how to use them as marketing tools. Lastly, data will be explored on how to use it to inform marketing efforts to achieve greater success, become more cost-effective, and use time more efficiently.

Strengthening Business Practices: Staff Recruitment and Retention
This workshop is part the Strengthening Business Practices for Child Care Programs series, a business practice curriculum designed by The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance. The content and activities are designed to strengthen providers’ foundational knowledge of sound fiscal management and business operations.

This module will support program leadership to understand best practices related to recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new employees. This will be done through building an effective orientation plan for new employees, becoming familiar with the components of a staff handbook and exploring strategies for providing feedback to employees.

Additional Trainings

Family Child Care: An Introduction to Designing an Operating Budget (Virtual, Self-paced): This module is for Family Child Care providers or Large Family Child Care that exists within the owner’s home. It is important to understand your program’s financial picture. Being intentional to your fiscal management will support reaching program goals and measuring the success of your business. This starts with designing an operating budget to know your income and spending, ensuring that you are balancing the two and to help you make future decisions.

Center-Based Child Care: An Introduction to Designing an Operating Budget (Virtual, Self-paced): This module is for Center-Based Programs or Large Family Child Care that exists outside of the owner’s home. It is important to understand your program’s financial picture. Being intentional to your fiscal management will support reaching program goals and measuring the success of your business. This starts with designing an operating budget to know your income and spending, ensuring that you are balancing the two and to help you make future decisions.

Outdoor Classrooms: Wonder, Explore, Learn (Virtual, Self-paced): Research shows that spending time outdoors has a variety of benefits for children (and adults) ranging from social emotional to academic. In this workshop, participants will explore these benefits and learn about ways to use the outdoors as an extended classroom. Wondering how to get started? Videos featuring programs and teachers describe the process of shifting from primarily indoor classrooms to outdoor classrooms and highlight the positive impacts on development and learning. Participants will consider materials, learning experiences and centers to implement aspects of an outdoor classroom in their own programs.

The Wonder of Outdoor Learning PLUS (Virtual, Live): When we recall our childhood we imagine time spent outdoors: rope swinging over a creek, carving out waterways in wet sand, constructing forts, munching on fruit from Grandma’s garden, bundling up for time spent in the deep snow, or even playing imaginary games in empty city lots. How can we create some of this same magic for children in our care? This workshop, with follow up small group coaching, explores real life experiences in developing innovative, engaging, extraordinary outdoor play areas for children. Learn how others have developed wonder, imagination, discovery through experiences with nature, art, sensory experience and more.

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