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
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.
ADA Hypotheticals
Business Insurance for Family Child Care Providers
The Consequences of Incorporating
Legal Hypotheticals
Legal and Illegal Discrimination
Protecting Yourself When a Parent Leaves
Questions to Ask about Business Liability Insurance
Reducing the Risks of Running a Business
Self-Protection Checklist
Should a Provider Incorporate His/Her Business?
When Is It Safe to Talk About Family Child Care Rates?
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.
Caring for Children in Your Home: A Business Guide for Legal Unlicensed Providers (national)
Caring for Children in Your Home: A Business Guide for Legal Unlicensed Providers (Minnesota only)
Getting Started in the Business of Family Child Care
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.
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.
¿Cuál es el momento oportuno para hablar sobre las cuotas?
Preparándose para abrir una empresa de atención infantil familiar
¿Puede un proveedor incorporarse a una sociedad constituída?
