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Home Consultant Services

Supporting Quality Child Care in Iowa

Mission Statement

To support positive change with child care professionals through technical assistance and consultation. Home Consultants will help child care professionals create quality early care and education programs including nurturing, affordable, and accessible environments which will promote healthy and successful lives for children. 

What services does the Child Care Home Consultant bring to you?

The Child Care Home Consultant offers

  • Answers to questions about state registration

  • Answers about the number of children allowed in a home

  • Assistance in selecting the most appropriate registration category for you

  • Answers to questions about building a successful small business

  • Assistance in creating a healthy, safe, child-friendly environment

  • On-site technical assistance visits four times in the first two years of registration

  • Continuing technical assistance/consultation visits at the provider’s request

  • Telephone or e-mail assistance anytime

  • Interpretation of new state initiatives

  • Explanation of the benefits of registration

  • Explanation of additional income potential

Child Care Home Consultants, as a service of Iowa Child Care Resource and Referral, can help you succeed in providing quality care for Iowa's Children.

Click here to locate information on regulation guidelines for child care homes:
www.dhs.state.ia.us/policyanalysis/policymanualpages/manual_documents/master/comm143.pdf
 

To schedule a home visit, or for more information, contact the Home Consultant serving your county:

   

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