Child Care Insurance Professionals
1484 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tel: 888.812.9992
Fax: 888.817.3332
Email: info@ccipros.com
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tel: 888.812.9992
Fax: 888.817.3332
Email: info@ccipros.com
General Child Care
General topics regarding child care and the child care industry.
Kansas child care center builds unique-and inexpensive-playground
Are you looking for ways to stretch your child care center’s dollars?
Newton Community Child Care Center showed you can build a playground from an empty dirt lot with a dream and a little help from your friends. The non-profit child care center was due to open a new branch at Asbury Park this spring but [...]
Los Angeles Universal Preschool touts benefits of preschool
LAUP study touts social, behavioral benefits of preschool, even for a short time
No one ever has to preach the virtues of preschool to local parent Alex Vogel – he’s seen the benefits that come with early education through his own young son, Diego. A year and a half ago, the extremely shy Diego started at [...]
Preschool language immersion programs continue to grow
Immersion language programs particularly effective at preschool age
It looked like any other preschool craft project. A group of children sat around a table gluing paper cutouts of body parts onto a cartoon drawing of a boy. What set the scene apart was language. “Der Junge hat eine Nase,” explained teacher Sarah Dye as she handed [...]
Quality day care essential to economic recovery
Quality day care crucial to economy, some business leaders say
At first, day care quality may seem irrelevant to those without young children. But a growing understanding of early brain development, and its role in later life success, is helping the issue gain traction from the classroom to the boardroom.
The National Research Council has found that [...]
Texas considers tougher child care requirements
Texas legislators eye rules covering child care
Imagine 30 toddlers — their piles of toys, their penchants for light sockets and mess-making, their cries over boo-boos and wailing for snacks. Now imagine that just you and one other person are responsible for their well-being.
At the moment, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services regulations require just two [...]
Day-care centers struggle to survive as jobless parents withdraw children
The day-care center director learns the whole embarrassing truth often before the mother-in-law, the pastor and sometimes even before the unemployment office. When mommy or daddy has lost their job, outside child care quickly devolves from necessity to expensive redundancy.
Parents hoping to save hundreds of dollars a month are hot-footing it to pull their children [...]
Arizona child care center wins $50,000 grant
Pepsi grant is a boost for families in need
A Pueblo Gardens child-care center won a $50,000 grant from Pepsi to subsidize day care for 40 children from low-income families.
Tucson Nursery School and Child Care Centers announced that it will receive $25,000 this week and the remainder in September after being named a winner in the [...]
Child care subsidies keep ‘poorest of the poor’ at work
South Carolina isn’t alone facing child care affordability challenges
Five months and 100-plus job applications after Tamara Townsend’s boss laid her off from her full-time job with a steady paycheck, the 30-year-old single mother finally found work in May. But this job is commission-only selling alarm systems.
Some weeks she doesn’t clear a dime. Whether she scores [...]
New York graduates child care entrepreneurs from program
Program for Home Care Entrepreneurs Holds Graduation Ceremony in Flatbush
While the U.S. economy is shedding more jobs than it is creating, it is remarkable what good training and guidance can do. Local organizations like the Business Outreach Center (BOC) Network are working hard throughout New York City to alleviate the problems associated with the economic [...]
Oklahoma preschool suffers damage in floods with inadequate insurance coverage
Oklahoma City’s Celebrations Preschool needs help recovering from flood
Candy Nesom tried to go home from work July 6, but flood waters blocked the roads. She returned to Celebrations Preschool, where she’s the director, to wait out the storm. “I started smelling this horrific smell,” she said. “I turned around and saw this river of sewage [...]