Starting in Child Care
Are you interested in starting your own child care business? We are here to help! HRDC 7 offers several tools to ensure your early learning facility succeeds. Here are some helpful resources to get your started:
New Provider Support
New Provider Specialists can help your business in many different ways. From registering for early childhood learning trainings to implementing safety procedures, we’ll be there to help you every step of the way.
STARS
The Best Beginnings STARS to Quality Program is a voluntary quality rating and improvement system that aligns quality indicators with support and incentives for early childhood programs and early childhood professionals. The Early Childhood Services Bureau has enjoyed watching the program grow and develop with the input from the various stakeholders, and has listened carefully to…
CACFP
In an effort to reduce the costs of child care while ensuring children receive healthy and nutritious meals, eligible child care providers are given cash reimbursement for serving meals to enrolled participants that meet Federal nutritional guidelines, outlined in the CACFP meal pattern. HRDC administers the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) for the Montana…
Professional Development
How to find additional trainings: New DIRECTOR Orientation Flowchart New Teacher Orientation Flowchart There are a number of statewide training opportunities for Early Childhood Providers. HRDC’s CC Training: Click here to find classes, orientation requirements, First/AID/CPR and more. Childcaretraining.org offers online training opportunities. Visit their catalog here for your professional development needs. Trainings can be…
Family Engagement
The Family Engagement Coordinator can help families become their child’s best first teacher with resources and tools that engage their child’s development. They work one-on-one with families to help find resources needed to better support their children outside of child care. General Referrals are also available with this service.
Child Care Referral Program
Our Referral Specialist helps you find quality child care that best fits your needs. Whether your hours of needed care are limited or you are looking for specific environments, we connect families to licensed or registered child care providers to provide a quality experience for everyone. We provide referrals for families in Big Horn, Carbon,…
Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship
Montana families are paying just over $9,000 a year to have an infant attend a full time care center. For low-income, working single parents this could mean nearly half their income is spent on child care. HRDC offers the State of Montana’s Best Beginnings scholarship for Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley, Musselshell,…
Katerina
Katerina Bolejack came to HRDC at a time of change in her life and felt like she had nowhere to turn. She had just graduated from treatment at the Rimrock Foundation and started her path to recovery from addiction, which she had struggled with for 15 years. Like many others, addiction took her down a…
