Getting Started in a Center Program

Starting a child care center is a challenge that involves much hard work and careful planning. As with any other business, a child care center offers a needed service to families.

Strong emphasis is placed on the business side of running a child care center because the success of a center depends upon sound fiscal management as well as providing a quality program for children and their families. Many people fail to give sufficient importance to running a child care center as a business.

It is vital for a child care center to respond to the needs of those families you are serving. A center should provide activities which promote intellectual, social, emotional and physical development.

Parents, educators and community members should become involved in the planning of your center.

Planning and operating a child care center consumes much time and energy, but offers a needed community service that influences the lives of children and families.

Call the Child Care Options Training Coordinator for additional information.

Center Child Care licensing rules can also be viewed or printed on-line at: http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/occhs/cclicensing.htm

For more information, please call or email us.