Define Who I Am
I visualize my business as a place of refuge where people can bring their children so they can make a living for their family. The families I will care for have been through so much just to have this child in their life. In caring for their child who has medical complications parents are very anxious, nervious, and stressed about having their child stay with someone who doesn't know how to adequately take care of their child's medical needs. I am in hopes of opening my doors to give those families comfort and peace that their child will be cared for and loved while they work.
I don't really consider myself to be affordable child care center. My rates will be higher than the average child care center, BUT we would be a specialized center with licensed nurses and medical staff to care for their children. When you pay more for your staff the tuition goes up. I am in hopes of being able to gain non-profit status and obtain grants to decrease the tuition for parents.
Being academically oriented is very important. Zero to three is an important stage for education and sets the stage for the rest of their life. So of course I will be an academically oreinted center.
Policies, programs, equipment, and curriculum I use to identify my program include: Our policies that will identify our program are policies that allow inclusion. Our program will include children with medical needs. Equipment will include medical equipment to adequately care for those children. Curriculum we will use the ELG's 0-36 months and our teachers will be certified to create lesson plans for the children and their needs.
The strenghts of my center will be a group of staff that genuinly care. The staff of my center will care for these children and their families to make a difference in their life. Our goal is to leave their life on a positive note. There will be a registered nurse on staff at all times to care for the children in the center with NICU experience.
At this point since Heaven's Little Stars is a vision of mine there is everything to improve on. We are just in the very very baby steps of becoming non-profit. At this point I would say improvement is to obtain a board so we can obtain Non-Profit Status.
