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Part 1
Organizing a Quality Child Care Program
Chapter 1
Quality Child Care: Today’s Growing Need
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Why Is There a Growing Need for Child Care? 11
Why Is There a Need for Quality Child Care? 14
What Makes a Good Program? 15
What Will Be Your Role as the Director of a Center? 19
How Do I Open My Own Center? 22
Chapter 2
Determining the Need for Child Care
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What Are the Characteristics of My Community? 29
How Do I Obtain the Information I Need? 35
How Do I Analyze Needs and Predict Future Trends? 38
What Are the Different Types of Care? 39
Chapter 3
Planning a Budget
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Will the Program Be Sponsored? 55
Will the Program Be For-Profit or Not-For-Profit? 58
What Are Sources of Income? 59
What Are the Typical Costs of Child Care? 61
What Do I Need to Know About Developing a Budget? 62
How Do I Analyze the Budget? 68
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