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Training Resources for Family Child Care Providers

AFSCME offers online programs and resources for family child care providers. We will be launching new self-paced programs this winter.  Please check back at this site for exciting updates.

Child Care Providers are Uniting for Change

Programs and Resources

Upcoming Programs:

How to Be An Advocate for Child Care Through Your Union
Coming Soon to the AFSCME Online Learning Academy

AFSCME’s congressional lobbyist for child care issues, Becky Levin, and Child Care Providers United founder, Denise Dowell, will provide you with the essential information you need to increase funding for child care and improve laws that affect family child care providers. We will briefly discuss the process and we can work together to can harness the power of parents, kids, and your communities to impact Capitol Hill from your telephones, computers, living rooms, and hometowns.  (Please note, at this time no credit is available, but we will work on getting this workshop approved.)

Visit this link to enroll: http://academy.afscme.org

2008 Programs:

Coming to Terms: Establishing a Business Relationship with Parents (PPT)

• Handout: Sample Contract Termination Language
• Handout: Policy on Parents Transporting Their Children
• Handout: Transportation Issues for Parents and Providers
• Handout: Parent Evaluation Form
• Handout: Exclusive Use Rooms and the Time
   

An Introduction to Family Child Care Recordkeeping (PPT)

• Handout: Claiming Car Expenses
• Handout: Common Family Child Care Business Deductions
• Handout: Depreciation Methods

AFSCME will launch online workshops for CCPT members soon. Please check back for:

• Activating Your Union Membership (Coming Soon)
• A Part of History: Women in Unions (Coming Soon)
• Introduction to Family Child Care Recordkeeping (Coming Soon)

Peer Advocacy Toolkit

Peer Advocates provide CCPT members with professional support and serve as union represenatives. The following documents are to assist peer advocates with their duties.  (These documents are PDFs.)

• The Role of the Peer Advocate
  
• How to Lobby
  
• Fact Sheet for Grievances
  
• Signing Up New Members
  
• Peer Advocate Essentials
  
• Discussing a Problem, Presenting a Grievance
  
• Building Union Strength Around Provider Issues
  
• AFSCME Provider Contact Information
  

Trainer's Toolkit

• Communication Tools You Can Use
  90-minute workshop for family child care providers. (148k PDF)
• Union Structure 101 for Child Care Providers
  1-hour exercise for family child care providers. (255k PDF)
• Trends Exercise
  1-hour exercise for family child care providers. (45k PDF)

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