...Home Daycare vs. Commercial Based Programs Ronnetta Morris English 121 Instructor August 14, 2011 Looking for a daycare center for your child is an important decision that many parents are forced to make. It can be a very stressful process for new parents to find a daycare center for their child when it is time to return to work or school. Unwanted stress can be avoided by parents when comparing daycares if there is an outline of what type of questions to ask. When choosing a daycare it should be based on your family’s needs and moral beliefs. Taking the time to research every daycare center of interest will give a clear vision of daily operations and expectations on what the daycare will be able to offer. This experience can be very challenging but knowing these answers to the questions will give parents self-awareness of what type of child care setting is best for their family unit. Parents can return to work, leaving their child with a right fit childcare provider and with a peace of mind after several observations of the daycare programs. There are three basic childcare centers that exist: in-home, religious based and commercial centers. Parents have the option of an in-home daycare, religious program or a commercial based program. No matter what program you choose, children are taken care of in a loving and nurturing manner. Some of the difference between all three types of programs may be alarming but it’s helpful information. In-home daycares...
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...forecast Management Summary Management team, Personnel plan Financial Plan Break even analysis Projected profit and loss Projected cash flow Projected balance sheet Executive Summary Executive Summary The shift of dogs from the role of a pet to valuable member of the family, has resulted in the emergence of a booming pet industry market. One of the most profitable and popular businesses to be born out of the shift in society is Dog Daycare. At PAWS Dog Daycare we specialize in caring for dogs while there owners are at work, or have other commitments that would force their dog to be left home alone. We are dedicated to giving the pets in our care a fun filled day, of emotional and mental stimulation, and providing the owners with the peace of mind that their pet is receiving the utmost in personal care and attention while they are participating in activities at our facility. Our strong commitment to customer satisfaction is demonstrated in the professionalism and knowledge of our staff and our interactions with the animals in our care. PAWS Dog Daycare is a new business with one major goal, and that is to provide the utmost in quality pet care and pampering. It is our job to insure that every dog entering our facility and participating in...
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...| DAY CARE CENTERS | | | | | | Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction: 2 Thesis Statement: 4 Child Care Business 4 For-profit day care 5 Non-profit day care 5 Social Effects: 6 Developmental Skills: 7 Physical Skills: 8 Educational and Behavioral Effects: 8 Social problems and resolve: 9 Staff 9 Quality 10 Data 12 Pros and Cons Compared in Different Child Care Setup 16 Conclusion: 19 Works Cited 21 Executive Summary Many of the children in America and other economically developed nations are taken care by individuals who are neither their legal guardians nor their school instructors. Such organizations play a very important role in the overall development of the child, firstly they allow the parents to earn money for child’s future or in case of a single parent it allows the opportunity of employment to the parent, secondly it also helps in the development of the children by intervening in his normal course of study in his early years of studies, this mostly helps the children who are differently abled. This report brings out what is good for the development of the children, what a child care is all about and what is the viability of such an institutions? The basic motive of this paper is to bring out the positive and negative aspects of child care centres. Here, we give an outline of the quantity of kids being taken as subjects for our study; portray hypothesis and proof about the private's way kid consideration...
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...will affect the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division’s Lasting Impressions Child Development Center (LICDC). In addition to possible sources of revenue, temporary assistance, and funding assets as part of financial contingency planning, the paper will discuss the following: public-private partners; nonprofits; bond issuance; grants; multi-level government financing, and the effects of taxation. Also the paper will evaluate the role that financial efficiency will play in obtaining funding at the state and local levels as well as how to identify sources of fundsfor the project. Financial Contingency Planning The FBI CJIS Division decided to build a daycare center for the use by the FBI Employees. The FBI built the LICDC facility on the CJIS Division’s campus in June 1993; however, it did not open until June 1995. FBI Employees are given first priority to enroll their child/children at the facility. Once the FBI Employees enrolled their child/children, the following individuals are permitted to enroll their child/children at LICDC in the following order: contractors working at CJIS, other federal agencies, and the community. This was the process followed until the center reached its capacity of 153 children. In order for LICDC to obtain funding not only from tuition and other sources, LICDC had to become National...
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...Business Expansion Ciara A. Carter-Rhodes Western Governor’s University 1. Viability of product Children of God’s Daycare originally began in the home of the owner Claudette Douglas over a decade ago. Mrs. Douglas founded the idea to expand her dream of taking care of the needs of the community by establishing a day care center versus home child care. This personal aspiration became a reality when Class A licensing permits were established, a site chosen, and Children of God daycare was open for business in June 2011(http://www.dss.state.la.us.) This company thrives on the notion that the early stages in a child’s life are very important to their growth and development. Choosing a good child day care center is vital as more parents in today’s world have employment demands and require suitable day care centers for their children. Children of God’s daycare is providing learning programs and playtime for your child, along with a safe and healthy environment. At present, this business does not have an online presence nor strategy to strategically place them at a better advantage within the day care community. All inquiries from parents in the community are based upon location of daycare site, word of mouth, and flyer handouts within the community. Despite not having an online presence, this company would like to strengthen and grow their sales by acquiring their target audience of working...
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...Assignment 5 Name: (Your Name) For Dr. Larry Byrd HRM533 Date: (Today’s date) (Title) Innovations of Employee Benefits The succeeding paragraphs will explain how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization. The first way is offer onsite day care facilities. The study suggests that on-site daycare is not only affordable; it is in many cases profitable. Further, the study found that a majority of workers would be willing to contribute to the cost of employer-sponsored daycare whether or not they used the benefit. "There are several kinds of employers who typically have on-site childcare, such as high-tech and healthcare industries, and others who need 24-hour workers, such as airline reservation companies," notes Connelly. "The few studies that have been done on on-site childcare focused on those companies with highly educated workforces. We were particularly interested in another group of companies - those who weren't offering daycare as part of a whole package of family-friendly benefits or because of a corporate philosophy, but rather because they had done an economic analysis of their particular set of workers and had decided that on-site childcare would be economically beneficial to their company." The second way is pet-friendly offices. Not all companies are created equal when it comes to the acceptance of dogs in the workplace. Some readily welcome your best friend while others...
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...Affordable Daycare for Low-Income Working Families Pamela Durant-Stewart Strayer University Memphis, TN Instructor: Dr. Lisa Joerg Research and Communication- BUS 531 July 07, 2008 Context of the Problem Three out of four children spend at least part of their day with a substitute caregiver, and Southern Mississippi needs to do more to ensure that care is high-quality and affordable. (Todd, C. and Ashton, A., March 2001). It’s not easy for an individual to live comfortably on less than eight dollars an hour. For parents working in low-wage jobs, trying to arrange reliable day care for their children can add another layer of anxiety to an already precarious existence. As part of Marketplace Morning Report’s series on the world of low-wage work, reporter David Schaper looks at the paucity of safe, affordable day care for low-income families. Kharfen, M. (Dec, 2000.) Low-income working mothers with children often have a hard time finding affordable day care. Even when child-care costs are based on a sliding-scale fee, many mothers with minimum-wage jobs can’t pay all of their child-care bills and still have money for housing, food, and transportation. we, as a society, want poor parents to be productive workers, some form of appropriate child care—regardless of parents’ ability to pay—must be available. Whether such care should be provided by employers, faith-based or charitable organizations, or through governmental programs is up to the citizenry to decide....
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...Management……………………………………………………………….9 Assumptions…………………………………………………………………………10 References……………………………………………………………………………11 Abstract The suggested company is an answer to the flourishing needs of families to have a place to take care of their pre-school kids where they will be safe, and taught the beginnings of the education. Their exclusive selling slogan will be, “Security, Amenity, and Benefits of a Home-Like Setting”. Kids at Home Learning Center Introduction Primarily, this business will be a sole proprietorship. The spouse of the administrator, as she has the correct skills needed, will run the business. The company will be based amongst a society that has young partners that have one or more children that could possibly enroll in our pre-school. Research on demand depicts a reliable market share which will be grabbed by our pre-school. Estimates of our first year of business show that we will not be in need of extra financing, and that we are financially sound, at least for the first year. Business Description Kids at Home Learning Center is a day care center that will be built within a subdivision of a provincial society. This daycare/pre-school center will provide...
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...to do for research?” This was because, the whole time that I was anxiously scrambling back and forth about which study I wanted to do, there was already one right in front of my eyes the whole time. For the past few months I have been working at a daycare, a place where children are dropped off by their parents when they need to do things on their own and can pick them up whenever is necessary. The daycare that I work at is family ran and takes place inside their very own home. The inside of the house portrays a peaceful setting with warm, cozy colors in the living room to make you feel relaxed and bright, energetic colors in other rooms that leave you feeling happy and comfortable. The daycare provider, Debbie, has been working with children for 40 years. She is a very well known person throughout the community and treats the kids she works with as if they are her own. After thinking for a while about what I wanted to do as a study, I decided that I wanted to do something involving children and the relations/interactions that they have with their parents. Seeing how I work at a daycare, I do not really get to see much of the interaction that the children and parents have with each other. That is the whole point of a daycare, parents separating from their children for a period of time so they can get whatever it is that needs to be done accomplished. So one may ask, “How do you plan on finding out such behaviors when you do not get to see them together?” And that’s the...
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...Analysis of Timothy's Case Study PSYC 2700 Child Development Case Study Analysis Capella University March, 2014 Analysis of Timothy's Case Study Timothy’s story is about a sequence, or timeline of events showing how being in a certain environment can help shape a child’s development. Timothy’s behavior from the beginning was a perfect example of how children model after their parents or caregiver. He was exposed to violence at a very young age from his parents, and therefore that was how he learned how to express himself. With his parents out of work and in low paying jobs, the whole family was under a lot of stress. Timothy was spanked as a result of them not dealing with their stress in a constructive way. Even away from home, at an unauthorized daycare, he was subject to spanking. With the family having a limited income, Timothy continued to go to a daycare that was unclean, unhealthy and detrimental to his development. When Timothy started school at a public school he was not prepared. Having had no structure, healthy social interaction or exposure to learning, he was very behind his peers. He had limited experience controlling his emotions and therefore was subject to angry outbursts and an inability to follow the rules. By the time he was eleven years old; he failed a grade and was not able to continue to 6th grade with his peers and was even suspended for instigating a fight. Secure attachment is the term used to support...
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...word they learn and the name they scream when they are hurt. Working mothers have stormed into the business world at full force in the last 20 years. This has had an impact on the children today, although mothers who stay home have more one on one time with their kids. According to Youngberg, “One significant, reoccurring issue specifically related to a mother’s decision of whether to be active in the workforce or be a stay-at-home mother involves the cognitive effects such a decision might have on children” (2011). While Children get as much attention at daycare as they would at home, stay at home mothers have a bigger impact than working moms. Mothers who work and mothers who stay home have the same busy lifestyle. Mothers need to get groceries, get the kids to baseball practice and better have a husband who is splitting the responsibilities to help take off the pressure. Mothers who work start taking their children to daycare at the young age of six to eight weeks. Heidi Brennan said on the Dr. Phil show “Children do not do well with large separations at a time” (Stay-At-Home Moms Vs. Working Moms, 2012). Because of the job that mothers have, mothers are required to be back to work right away after six weeks. Full time jobs are eight hours a day, which that newborn child is spending with a perfect stranger in hopes to get the right amount of attention. This does not seem to be fair to a newborn that is entering into this world to be with his or her family. WORKING...
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...Abraham Maslow projected a general overview of human motivation. His theory strikes a distinctive sense of balance between biological and social needs that integrates many motivational concepts. According to Maslow individual needs are set in a hierarchy, and everyone must satisfy their basic needs before they can satisfy their higher needs. The hierarchy is portrayed as a pyramid beginning with physiological needs at the bottom and self-actualization at the top. The 'Hierarchy of Needs' theory has four different levels before one can come to full self-actualizing. Beginning with the most basic, the needs are physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem and lastly, self-actualization. Physiological needs refer to the literal requirements for human survival, such as breathing, food, water, sleep, and metabolic activities. Safety needs are all things providing humans with a sense of security, such as protection from the elements, financial stability and personal health. Furthermore, love and belonging refers to the interpersonal relationship, in which relationships with family, friends, lovers, and others are drawn; providing humans with a sense of acceptance and attachments. Esteem refers to the need to be respected and accepted and, most importantly, the need of self-respect. People develop their esteem as they are recognized by others, gaining a certain level of social status and thus build their own self-respect. The last is about the self-actualization, in which an individual...
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...is a non-for-profit organization that focuses on family members in need of assistance with health-care, education awareness and daycare assistance. The services are provided through two of their subsidiaries, Mom‟s Daycare and Healthy For You. Home Health-care who owns and operates both organization functions as a corporate office. Home Health-care has identified a need for both its subsidiaries, Mom‟s Daycare and Healthy for You to consolidate their operations and mission. The goal is to release Home Health-care of total financial obligation in the existing structure of these two affiliates; while fostering the affiliates into an organization that may thrive. Both subsidiaries were in the decline stage of their business. Due to the change of the economy and society, patient flow and customers were declining resulting in a loss of revenue. Because of the decline, Home Health-care has been obligated to cover lost earnings and payroll. The goal is to enhance the existing two affiliate‟s structure into an organization that will achieve both vision and mission, enhance productivity efficiency, and becoming fiscally responsible. The Administrative and Resource Development Consolidation will consist of the reorganization of the board of directors, management and administrative offices both entities, starting with an interim organization. Mom‟s Daycare and Healthy for You board members were asked to vote on, and pass resolutions concerning the following three key items: Whether...
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...exploring and building their passions! Teenagers and children can choose from many activities in the center, including an array of parks (15,000 sq. ft. for botanical gardens and 25,000 sq. ft. for urban park), sports fields/courts (at least 180,000 sq. ft. for sports areas), playgrounds (10,000 sq. ft.), and running/biking/walking trails to get an hour or more of physical play for acceptable development, as well as an art and gaming center. One of the parks is a botanical garden, which educates children about a variety of plants and allows them to enjoy nature. The other park is an urban park with a fountain, benches, and picnic tables. There is both a playground for children and for toddlers. The toddler playground provides a place for daycare workers to bring the younger children to play. Running/biking/walking trails are mainly aimed at teenagers and adults wanting an alternative to exercising in the gym or a place to bike. With the large variety of things to do, children find difficulty in being bored at the Aynah Center for Individuality. As well as outdoor areas for physical activity, there is VRFitness, an indoor gym (30,000 sq. ft), where all residents can enjoy exercising. The gym has games and artificial environments to make fitness enjoyable by utilizing virtual reality. One way that the indoor gym utilizes this technology is by giving residents the feeling of the nature when running on the treadmill. People exercising in the gym can choose to not use the VR and instead...
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...Louisiana FROM: Dala S. Stansbury, Director of Kid’s Corner Christian Academy DATE: May 16, 2012 SUBJECT: Improving employee morale and productivity in childcare facilities Attached is my proposal to provide director based training on improving morale among teachers and staff. The success of our centers is based on our parent-staff relations. According to 2012 Home daycare overview, daycare centers are now rated below average among in- home centers (Baby Center Medical Advisory Board, 2012). From my experience, parents are complaining that they are not having a good experience when speaking with teachers about behavior matters or in receiving reports of their child’s day. I have investigated further by listening to parents’ constant complaints of how upon entering the center they feel unwelcomed by the tone teachers are using and the lack of concern among directors. Centers in Louisiana are having a problem keeping their staff motivated, which leads to problems that impact the center as a whole. This project will educate directors and staff about the significance of high morale in daycare facilities. When the morale is high, teachers are happy and it is reflected in the lesson plans and interaction with the children. I will discuss the benefits of having a great director, how it correlates to improving the environment of your center eliminating high turnovers in staff and students. In an article written by Sherry Storm Eiselen, she discusses how leadership should...
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