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Definition:

South Dakota law defines a Family Day Care Home as providing care and supervision of children from more than one unrelated family, in a family home, on a regular basis for part of a day as a supplement to regular parental care, without transfer of legal custody or placement for adoption. A family day care home may not be registered for care and supervision of more than 12 children at any one time including children under the age of six who are living in the home.

• Family day care is a service provided in the provider’s home.
• Family day care providers are registered rather than licensed.
• Registration is a voluntary process where the applicants declare their intent to provide family day care and agree to comply with standards that have been established by the Department of Social Services.
• A registration certificate is in effect for two years.
• Registration is legally mandated when a provider receives compensation from public funds.
• Providers who are not receiving reimbursement from public funds and caring for 12 or fewer children can choose whether they want to be registered or not.
• A registered family day care provider must be at least 18 years old.

Health and Safety Regulatory Requirements met by a registered family day care provider:

• Administrative Rules of South Dakota (ARSD) 67:42:03 – Family Day Care Homes  
• ARSD 67:42:16 – Scope of Services for Child Care Programs
• South Dakota Codified Laws (SDCL) Chapter 26-6 – Children’s Homes and Welfare Agencies
• Family Day Care Handbook

Monitoring and Inspections  

Sample Monitoring Form

Background Checks Required 

Email a request for more information or to obtain a packet to start the registration process  link to CCS email address

Call a licensing specialist for more information or to obtain a packet to start the registration process.

Other Links

• Background Screening Information
• Child Care & Dev. State Plan
• Child Seat Safety Distribution Program
• Child Care Assistance Program
• Child Care Inspection Results
• Early Learning Guidelines
• Emergency Preparedness
• Licensing and Registration Information
• Pathways to Professional Development
• Search for Child Care
• Training and Education

See Also…

• Child Care Links and Resources
• Child Support
• Economic Assistance

Resources

• DSS Employment
• DSS FAQs
• DSS Forms & Publications
• DSS HIPAA Information
• DSS News

About Family Child Care Home Registration

Currently, Florida law requires that anyone who provides child care in their home for more than one unrelated family must be either registered or licensed through the Department of Children and Families. Please note that you must complete the registration process and receive a registration letter from DCF prior to providing child care. Florida Statutes [§ 402.313, F.S.] provides an alternative to licensure for family day care home providers, which includes registering annually with the state, unless licensure is required under a specific county ordinance or resolution. While most counties do not require licensure of family day care homes, many family day care homes choose to be licensed to demonstrate they meet the state’s minimum health and safety standards.

Registration in the following counties is not permitted as they have a local ordinance requiring Licensure.

• Brevard
• Broward
• Clay
• Duval
• Hernando
• Hillsborough
• Manatee
• Miami-Dade
• Nassau
• Palm Beach
• Pasco
• Pinellas
• Polk
• Sarasota
• Saint Johns

Even though registered family day care homes are not inspected by the Department, they are required to provide information annually as part of the application process, to include:

1. The name of the operator.
2. The number of children served (not to exceed capacity as defined by § 402.302(7), Florida Statutes).
3. Proof of written plan to provide at least one competent adult to be available to substitute for the operator in an emergency.
4. Proof of screening and background checks.
5. Proof that immunization records for the children are kept current.
6. Proof that each parent has been provided a copy of a completed Health and Safety Checklist.
7. Proof of completion of the 30-hour family day care home training course as well as an approved 5-hour course in early literacy and language development of children ages birth through five years. The 35 hours of training must be completed prior to registration.

Please be advised that you must complete the registration process and receive a registration letter from DCF prior to providing child care.

Thinking About Becoming a Registered Family Day Care Home Provider?

If you are thinking about becoming a Registered Family Day Care Home provider for the FIRST TIME, please click the link below:

• Becoming a Registered Family Day Care Home Provider

Intent to Apply

If you are a new applicant for a Family Day Care Home Registration, please click on the Intent to Apply link below and complete the form.   If you should have any questions regarding this process, please call 850-488-4900.

• Intent to Apply

Registration Renewal

If you are currently a Registered Family Day Care Home provider and wish to RENEW your registration, please download and print all of the documents listed below.  Complete all forms and mail them all together with your $25 application fee to: 

Department of Children and Families
Office of Child Care
2415 North Monroe St., Suite 400, Room N216
Tallahassee, FL 32303

• Family Day Care Home Registration Renewal
• Registered Family Child Care Home Application Checklist
• Attestation of Good Moral Character
• Health and Safety Checklist
• Child Abuse and Neglect Report Form
• List of Children in Care
• Employment History
• Zoning Building Code/HOA Attestation
• Online Juvenile Records Check

Information for parents – City Children’s Polyclinic No.

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How to prepare a child for entering kindergarten?

Probably, few of the parents already in the first year of a child’s life think about the fact that someday the child will go to kindergarten or nursery and that he needs to be prepared for this event. The sooner you think about it, the easier it will be for your baby to get used to the new environment, regimen, communication with adults and children, and most importantly, in separation from you.

What is required for this?

1. Keep breastfeeding as long as possible in your baby’s first year.

2. Observe the diet, sleep and wakefulness of the child. 2-3 months before the child enters a preschool institution, familiarize yourself with the regime in kindergarten and accustom the child to such a regime.

3. Eliminate the conditions for the child to develop bad habits (sickness in his arms, sucking on a pacifier after a year, etc.). If the baby has bad habits, it is recommended to get rid of them before entering kindergarten.

4. Timely instill in the child the necessary skills (using a spoon, cup, pot).

5. To increase the body’s defenses, regularly harden, exercise, walk in the air.

6. From an early age, involve the child in communication with other children and adults.

7. Special attention is required for children who are often ill and with health problems. For such children, before being placed in a children’s institution, health-improving measures should be taken according to the doctor’s prescription.

8. Do not insist on placing the child in a children’s institution earlier, 2 weeks after recovery from colds and a month after he has been vaccinated.

9. By the time of admission to a children’s institution, the child must be vaccinated in accordance with the vaccination schedule. Mandatory vaccinations are against tuberculosis, diphtheria, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, as well as the Mantoux test.

10. It is necessary to plan admission to kindergarten in such a way that all vaccinations that have come due have been completed beforehand, otherwise vaccination may be delayed, because. during the adaptation period (and it can be long), vaccinations are contraindicated.

11. Before entering a children’s institution, the child must be examined by specialist doctors: neuropathologist, surgeon, orthopedist, oculist, otolaryngologist, dentist (after the last examination, no more than 2 years should pass if the doctor did not recommend an examination earlier). Children over 3 years old consult a speech therapist.

12. Children who are registered with other medical specialists for any disease should be examined by this specialist and the necessary recommendations for further medical observation of the child in kindergarten should be received.

13. Before entering kindergarten, it is necessary to undergo a laboratory examination – a blood test, urine, feces for worm eggs (tests are valid for 2 months), and scraping for enterobiasis (valid for 1 month).

14. Anemia is a prognostically unfavorable factor in the course of adaptation to kindergarten conditions. Therefore, during the preparation of a child with anemia and borderline conditions, anti-anemic treatment is carried out.

15. Children of different ages tolerate separation from relatives differently and adapt to new conditions in different ways. The most favorable period recommended for admission to kindergarten is the age of up to 9months and after 2 years.

16. Try to prepare the child in advance for visiting the kindergarten, tell him in detail about it. The best option is to take the child there in advance and stay with him for a while (without leaving one) so that he can get his own idea of ​​\u200b\u200bkindergarten. During your joint stay, try to interest the child as much as possible and create a positive attitude in him, then he will expect this event, experiencing positive emotions, and not perceive it as a surprise or an unpleasant necessity.

17. On the first day of visiting the kindergarten, try not to leave immediately, stay with the child for a while, watch him, make sure that your absence will not cause tears, anxiety or fear. It is better if the child himself will let you go.

18. If the child is strongly attached to you, pick him up from kindergarten on the first day after 1-2 hours. The next day, the duration of the visit can be increased, and only after a few days leave him alone for the entire period of stay in the group. At the same time, you must promise the child that you will certainly return for him.

19. Dear parents! Compliance with these rules will help you avoid undesirable consequences of the period of adaptation of your child to the conditions of the children’s institution and keep them healthy. Remember that early health is health for the rest of your life.

Children’s department | City Polyclinic No. 72

Children’s Department

SINGLE POLYCLINIC TELEPHONE: 241-54-58.

Doctor’s house call until 14.00 is serviced on the same day;

Call received after 14.00 is serviced the next day;

Call received on Saturday after 14. 00 is serviced on Monday.

Dear parents!

from 03/01/2023

Distribution of plots at addresses

Pediatric appointment schedule at the polyclinic.

R-Mantoux: (on Mondays, Tuesdays) Monday and Tuesday from 8.15-09.00 a.m. 210 check for R-Mantoux on Thursday and Friday from 8.30-09.00 (appointment to R-Mantoux through the city health free appointment)

Prof. Vaccinations are carried out from 09.00-19.00 at Thursday during the reception hours. pediatricians (by numbers).

From August 31, 2017 the schedule of pediatricians is established by appointment:

kindergartens and schools ).

Discharge of children after illness, after vacation, home. Mode – held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Tuesdays Prof.