4.6.1 Child Care Professional Resources - Start a Child Care Center

Opening a Georgia Child Care Center

Quality Care for Children has been in the business of opening child care centers for more than 20 years and can help you. Services are customized to meet the needs of each client.

Quality Care for Children offers consultation when opening a child care business or expanding an existing child care program.

This service includes:

  • A site visit to see your space or meet with a task force or Board of Directors
  • A market analysis or needs assessment of your area to show you what other programs are available and what child care is needed
  • Identification of other quality child care programs in your area for you to visit.
  • Assistance in adapting your space to make your facility suitable for a child care, school-age or summer program.
  • A walk-through of your building to determine the best use of your space and to advise on health and safety concerns.
  • Assistance in developing and refining budgets, staffing patterns, job descriptions, policies and procedures, and fee scales.
  • Help completing required licensing paperwork and meeting fire codes and zoning requirements.
  • Assistance in choosing a curricula and developing a quality learning program for children.
For more information, call 800-204-9886.


News & Events

Summer Food Program RFP

 

Summer Food Service Program Invitation for Bid

Invitation for Bid: Food Service Management Meal Preparation and Delivery for Summer Food Service Program

Release Date: April 15, 2012

Last Day for Questions: April 25, 2012

Opening Date, Time, and Location:

Sparks Grove spends MLK Day helping Suburban Nursery

Quality Care for Children welcomed Atlanta-based marketing agency, Sparks Grove and their 30 volunteers to help brighten the school’s outdoor play areas. Sparks Grove is the fifth corporate volunteer group in Quality Care for Children’s Corporate Volunteer Program that launched in March 2011. Quality Care for Children’s outreach program is designed to assist child care centers in improving quality, performing tasks such as: mulching play areas and installing playground equipment.

El Día de los Niños

El Día de los Niños – a Celebration of ALL Children, April 19, 2012

As tough economic times continue to put a strain on families and the child care services they use in Georgia, a group of concerned citizens led by Quality Care for Children and Georgia First Lady, Sandra Deal, is hoping a major fundraising event in April will bring more money and awareness to what has become an urgent and growing problem this year.

Why Quality Child Care is Key

 
By Pam Tatum

Georgia has long endured the poor educational achievements that result from a failure to invest in high-quality early care and education for children. The economy is taking its toll on a child care system that needs to be thoroughly revamped for the sake of children, families and even the state’s economic future.