Business Resources for Family Child Care Providers

Legal and Insurance

Articles

Insurance Issues

Auto Insurance
Choosing Liability Insurance
Disability Insurance
Health Insurance Deduction
Homeowner's Insurance Coverage
Homeowners' Insurance: What Does It Cover?
Insurance Carriers Canceling Homeowner's Insurance Policies
Is Your Property Covered By Your Homeowner's Insurance Policy?
Just What is Adequate Liability Coverage?
Living with Life Insurance
Medical Savings Accounts
Minnesota Law Attempts to Solve Homeowners' Insurance Crisis
New Report Highlights Efforts to Bring Health Insurance and Other Services to Providers
Three Key Legal and Insurance Tips for Family Child Care Providers
Transportation Issues for Parents and Providers
What You Don't Know About Homeowner's Insurance Can Hurt You
Why Have Insurance?

Legal Issues

A Plan to Eliminate Illegal Child Care
Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporating Your Family Child Care Business
Finding a Lawyer
How to Prepare for an Investigation
Hypothetical Legal Situations
Legal Help Is Available
Protecting a Provider's Privacy in Family Child Care
Protecting Your Business Name
Protecting Yourself When a Parent Leaves
Reducing the Risks of Running a Business
Three Key Legal and Insurance Tips for Family Child Care Providers
When Is It Safe To Talk About Family Child Care Rates?
You're Being Investigated...Now What?

Unions

AFSCME Organizes Family Child Care
Child Care Providers Ratify Union Contract in Michigan
Family Child Care Unions Sign Contracts with Three States
Finding Our Voice in SEIU
Illinois: Site of Nation's First Union Contract with Family Child Care Providers
National Association for Family Child Care Issues Guidelines for Union Organizing
New Report Highlights Efforts to Bring Health Insurance and Other Services to Providers
Oregon: Two Unions Reach Agreement on State Contracts
Questions about Unions Answered
Redleaf National Institute on National Public Radio
Report on Family Child Care Unionizing Published
SEIU Response to NAFCC Position Paper
Unions and Family Child Care: A Primer
Washington State Reaches Agreement with Child Care Union

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Handouts

The following handouts are PDFs and, once you download them, can be opened in Adobe Reader. Organizations and trainers are free to use these handouts in their workshops as long as the contact information on our letterhead is included.

Download icon ADA Hypotheticals
Download icon Business Insurance for Family Child Care Providers
Download icon The Consequences of Incorporating
Download icon Legal Hypotheticals
Download icon Legal and Illegal Discrimination
Download icon Protecting Yourself When a Parent Leaves
Download icon Questions to Ask about Business Liability Insurance
Download icon Reducing the Risks of Running a Business
Download icon Self-Protection Checklist
Download icon Should a Provider Incorporate His/Her Business?
Download icon When Is It Safe to Talk About Family Child Care Rates?

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Booklets

The following handouts are PDFs and, once you download them, can be opened in Adobe Reader. Organizations and trainers are free to use these booklets in their workshops as long as the contact information on our letterhead is included.

Download icon Caring for Children in Your Home: A Business Guide for Legal Unlicensed Providers (national)
Download icon Caring for Children in Your Home: A Business Guide for Legal Unlicensed Providers (Minnesota only)
Download icon Getting Started in the Business of Family Child Care
Download icon Family Child Care Provider Guide
The "Family Child Care Provider Guide" is a publication released in October 2002 by the IRS Taxpayer Education and Communication office in Cleveland, Ohio. This forty-page booklet summarizes the basic record keeping rules that affect family child care providers. The Cleveland office of the IRS is using this publication in Ohio to help educate family child care providers about their tax responsibilities and to increase tax filing compliance.

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Multilingual Materials

Español

Redleaf National Institute would like to express its appreciation to the American Express Minnesota Philanthropic Program for providing funding for the translation of these handouts.

Download icon ¿Cuál es el momento oportuno para hablar sobre las cuotas?
Download icon Preparándose para abrir una empresa de atención infantil familiar
Download icon ¿Puede un proveedor incorporarse a una sociedad constituída?

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