Becoming a Family Home Child Care Provider

Cape Breton's Family Home Child Care Agency is funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to approve, monitor, and support you in providing high-quality child care in your own home. Our goal is to reduce the isolation often experienced by child care providers, provide ongoing professional development to enhance your skills and keep you up-to-date, and support our communities with greater access to safe and nurturing child care spaces.

Benefits for Child Care Providers:

- Start-up kits are provided at no cost to you. They include play materials, art supplies, home safety materials, and more;
- Operational resources, including all necessary forms;
- Free access to our lending library;
- Monthly play group visits led by the Family Home Child Care Consultants;
- Ongoing home consultation visits to support the work and help with promotion, problem-solving, and so forth;
- Free training and professional development opportunities;
- Networking opportunities to meet with other Family Home Child Care providers;
- The ability to offer parents reduced fees through subsidy (https://www.ednet.ns.ca/earlyyears/families/childcaresubsidy.shtml) and the new universal child care reductions (https://childcarenovascotia.ca/); and
- Ongoing support in meeting the wide variety of needs children have in the early years.

Reach Out to Us - We Want to Hear from You

We recognize the benefits to children of being cared for in a home environment during their earliest years. Because we can offer on-the-job training, we can meet you where you are on your child-caring journey. Maybe you have formal training, and maybe you have lots of lived experience caring for children. Perhaps you want to get started to provide services in your community. No matter the situation, we would love to hear from you.

We are here to support you in integrating a child care program into your existing space. If you want to learn more, please get in touch with our Family Home Child Care Consultants. We'll respond quickly and get the process underway.