Policies & Financial Aid
Check this box if the provider has liability insurance for their child care business. Providers should be encouraged to maintain liability insurance.
Check this box if the provider has knowledge of and/or experience that may help serve children with challenging behaviors, children who are experiencing emotional distress, and children who may have significant delays in social skills development.
Check this box if the provider offers a preschool curriculum for preschool-aged children (ages 3-5), whether or not they operate a part-time preschool program. See “Type of Care” for clarification.
Check this box if the provider is willing to care for children who do not regularly come to child care, but who require care on a more ad hoc or drop-in basis.
Programs that run part-day and/or part-week programs, have an educational (i.e. preschool) curriculum, and almost exclusively care for children of preschool age (3-5 years). Preschool programs are legally exempt from certification by the ELD, although some may elect to become licensed as Certified Centers or recorded with ELD as a PS program. Programs that function as a preschool should be marked as Preschool Program, even if they are licensed by ELD. In general, if the provider accepts children of non-preschool ages or cares for some children on an extended basis, then the provider should be marked as a center, not as a preschool.
Check this box if the provider has made arrangements for a substitute provider in the event that they become sick or are otherwise temporarily unable to care for the children in care.
Check this box if the provider has knowledge/experience/ability to transfer children to/from wheelchair and/or to aid in the use of other assistive devices, such as walkers and crutches.
Check this box if the provider receives Teen Parent Program funding. This typically means that the provider cares exclusively or primarily for teen parents at the school and provides little or no care to the general public.
Check this box if the provider keeps pets in a kennel or in some other fashion safely separated from children in care.
Providers caring for children in their own homes. These providers maybe licensed with the ELD (Certified or Registered) or they are exempt from registration requirements (because they care for three or fewer children).
Check this box if the provider has a policy that the family must pay for the time they commit to bringing their child/children to child care, even if for any reason (illness of child, family vacation, etc.), a portion of that time is not actually used.
Check this box if the provider has knowledge of and/or experience with formal or informal nursing care (for example, use of a feeding tube or nebulizer). Experience may have been gained by care of family member or by work in a skilled nursing facility.
Check this box if the provider is located in a church with which it has no religious affiliation.
Check this box if the provider has access to an outdoor structure, such as a slide, merry-go-round, or climbing structure, for the children to play on.
Programs designed specifically for children in kindergarten through age 12 that are run before and/or after school hours during the school year. They may also run on a full-time basis during the summer. School age programs accept only children of school age. Children must be checked in and out of the program by an adult; they are not free to come and go as they please.
Check this box if the facility has no rates but is not open to the general public, such as child care facilities associated with women’s shelters or with drug and alcohol treatment programs. Also check this box for providers who are only willing to care for the children of family, friends, or neighbors but who, for some reason, want to be included on the R&R database
Check this box if the provider has knowledge of and/or experience working with children who have challenging behaviors that require a higher level of supervision and intervention.
Check this box if the provider is located in and affiliated with a faith-based institution.
Check this box if the provider is willing to work with/support a mother who wants to breastfeed her child in care.
Full- or part-day centers that are not exclusively preschools or exclusively before- and/or after-school programs. Center-based care is offered in a facility other than the provider’s own home. There are a number of child care centers that include a preschool that enrolls children who only attend the part-time preschool. In these cases, mark the program as a Child Care Center and click the checkbox “Center with separate preschool enrollment” under “Attributes—Program Structure.
Check this box if the provider maintains a written scale or policy in which fees charged are adjusted according to family income
Check this box if the provider has knowledge of and/or experience with some kinds of specialized equipment for children with special needs, such as walkers, modified high chairs, or breathing devices.
Check this box if the provider is located in an employer workplace or if they receive substantial sponsorship from an employer.
Check this box if the provider has previously been a family child care provider and now, after a significant gap in time, is returning to the field of child care.
All Recreational Programs and Care Provided in Client’s Home.