Supporting Families and Providers
-Agency and Provider work as a team to support our families and their individual needs
-Monitored Provider Interactions
- Play Based Philosophy congruent with ECE best practices and principles
-Monitored Environments and Space
- In home/ Out of home back up care when available
- Heavily Screened Applicants
- Agency and Providers Follow Ministry Standards
http://humanservices.alberta.ca/documents/family-day-home-standards-manual.pdf
- Agency and Providers follow Accreditation Standards
- Opportunities for families and providers to discuss child's progress in the day home
- Regular Monthly Safety Checks
-Encourages regular family involvement in programs
- Regular monthly program planning
-Daily outside play experiences
- Contact with the Agency to follow up on child care services and policies
- Parent Newsletters covering everything from healthy eating to growth and development of the brain
- Support Services online
- Community Resources in office and online
-ASQ 3 Development Screening
- Open Door Policy for Families and Providers
- Play Based Learning Program that families can participate in
-Charting Growth and Development of Children
- Agency paid ongoing Professional Development Opportunities for Providers so that children are benefiting from educated caregivers
- Monthly Provider Meetings with Guest Speakers for Parents and Providers
- Semiannual Parent Appreciation Events
-Semiannual Provider Appreciation Events
- Parenting Resources (email, textbook, businesses, handouts, newsletters, phone calls etc)
- Initial Child Intake/ Interviewing Process
- Meet Our Team and Available Spaces display
- Individual Training Plan for Providers
- Unscheduled Home and Safety Inspections
- Video Reflections where providers review interactions with children and reflect on
-Learning Materials, Toy, and Equipment Lending Library
-Families invited to complete the Agency Survey's on how we are doing and what we need improvement on
- Learning Material drop off and pick up
- At home play activities/resources for parents to utilize
- Developmental Birthday Party Check Up Referrals to Family Center
- Conflict Resolution for both parties
- Agency handles all administration
- Parent resource lending library- take home a back pack
- Dependable, Kind, Approachable Agency staff