Becoming a Registered/Licensed Professional

• Registration
  
• Licensing
  
• Free services
  
• Opening a Child care Center
  

Registration
How to become a registered Family Child Care Provider or School Age Child Care program: Contact the Child Care Council of Orange County, Inc.

We offer many FREE services to help walk you through the entire process of becoming registered. Some of these include:

• • Start-Up Funding
  
• • Health & Safety Grants
  
• • Pre-Site Inspections
  
• • Fingerprinting & Background Checks
  
• • Food Reimbursement Program (CACFP)
  
• • Technical Assistance
  

Although, the Yonkers Regional Office of OCFS licenses Group Family Child Care Professionals and Child Care Centers, we are still able to offer you some services, including:

• Food Reimbursement Program (CACFP)
  (For Group Professionals Only)
  
• Health & Safety Grants (For Group Professionals Only)
  
• Training General Technical Assistance
  

Nuts & Bolts Seminars, designed to give you information on various topics specific to running a Day Care Center.

Session 1: Business Startup
(3 hours)

• Writing a business plan
  
• Financial management
• Marketing
• NYS Office of Children and Family Services regulations and licensing
  
• Insurance needs
  
• Tax requirements
  
• Funding sources
  
• Record keeping
  

Session 2: The Business of Child Care
(3 hours)

• Staffing
  
• Personnel policies
  
• Nurturing the day care child
  
• The importance of play
  
• How to observe children
  
• Nutrition, health, and safety concerns
  
• Parental involvement
  
  

Session 3:
Meeting with Liz Kuriplach, Director of Child Care Council formerly Director of Blooming Grove Day Care Center for 18 years

CHILD CARE SUPPLY/ DEMAND
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
(supply of regulated child care is not available by age)

WITH ABOVE PACKAGE
a.) City or town by age – FREE
b.) Each additional city or town by age - $ 20
c.) All of Orange County by age - $150

WITHOUT ABOVE PACKAGE

a.) City or town by age - $25
b.) Each additional city or town by age - $30
c.) All of Orange County by age - $200