This training can help you turn your business dreams into reality! The Business of Child Care is a comprehensive business training that provides participants with crucial business elements necessary to run successful child care programs. This program will help strengthen your business and help you plan for lending opportunities, quality initiatives, facility improvements, social media marketing, financial health, and program effectiveness. Topics covered include:

-Strengthening your business and help you plan for lending opportunities, quality initiatives, and facility improvements

-Marketing your program, what is unique to your ECE business

-Planning roles and responsibilities for leadership and management of your child care business

-Financial health and program effectiveness

-Creating a Business Plan

Trainer: Julie Wasilewski

STARS: 21 Hours

Core Competencies: Program Planning and Evaluation, Personnel Management, Financial Management, Displaying Professionalism in Practice

We will be working with CANVAS (LMS system) to do homework, discussion and find the Zoom links.

Live Virtual Class dates:

Monday August 4, 1:00-2:00 pm

Tuesday August 5, 1:00-3:00 pm

Tuesday August 19, 1:00-3:00 pm

Tuesday September 2, 1:00-3:00 pm

Tuesday September 16, 1:00-3:00 pm

Tuesday September 30, 1:00-3:00 pm

Participants must attend all sessions to receive STARS credit, as well as complete independent work between sessions.  Vouchers for this training are available for Whatcom County Early Childhood Education Programs: please email childcare@oppco.org for more information.

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