Florida Department of Education
Curriculum Framework 

Program Title:	Family Child Care Training
Program Type:	Career Preparatory
Career Cluster:	Education & Training

Note: This program is approved by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) as meeting the training requirements for family child care home personnel, 65C-20, F.A.C.  To offer and teach this program, approval must be obtained from the local DCF Child Care Training Coordinators Agency and the instructor must meet the trainer requirements established by DCF.  Additional information regarding family child care home training can be found at https://www.myflfamilies.com/services/child-family/child-care/training-and-credentialing. 

Career Certificate Program	
Program Number	V200410	
CIP Number	0419070905	
Grade Level	30, 31	
Program Length	30 clock hours	
Teacher Certification	Refer to the Program Structure section.	
CTSO	N/A	
SOC Codes (all applicable) 	Please see the CIP to SOC Crosswalk located at the link below.                            	
CTE Program Resources 	http://www.fldoe.org/academics/career-adult-edu/career-tech-edu/program-resources.stml	
Basic Skills Level	N/A	

Purpose

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Education & Training career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Education & Training career cluster. 

The content includes but is not limited to the following components of the DCF 40-hour, Introductory Child Care Training:  six hours in Child Growth and Development; six hours in Behavioral Observation & Screening; eight hours in Health, Safety, & Nutrition; four hours in Identifying & Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect; and six hours in Family Child Care Home Rules and Regulations.  Prospective/new family child care home providers will obtain the skills necessary to help anticipate the crucial decisions they will have to make while starting their business. It stresses models of best practices that have been adopted by veteran home care providers. The content teaches the knowledge and skills that new providers will need in order to meet the local child care licensing requirements.  

Additional Information relevant to this Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is provided at the end of this document.

Program Structure

This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of one occupational completion point.

This program is comprised of courses which have been assigned course numbers in the SCNS (Statewide Course Numbering System) in accordance with Section 1007.24 (1), F.S. Career and Technical credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in accordance with Section 1001.44(3)(b), F.S.

To teach the course listed below, instructors must hold at least one of the teacher certifications indicated for that course.

The following table illustrates the postsecondary program structure:

OCP	Course Number	Course Title	Teacher Certification	Length	
A	HEV0119	Family Child Care Provider	FAM CON SC 1
PRESCH ED L
PK PRIMARY H
CH CARE TR 7 G
PRIMARY ED @B
E CHILD ED @0
HME EC OCC ¢7 %7 %G	30 hours	

Regulated Programs

This program is approved by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) as meeting the training requirements for family child care home personnel, 65C-20, F.A.C.  *** To offer and teach this program, approval must be obtained from the local DCF Child Care Training Coordinators Agency and the instructor must meet the trainer requirements established by DCF.  Programs offering the Family Child Care Training course will be required to use DCF materials and be subject to monitoring by the training coordinating agencies.  Additional information regarding family child care home training can be found at https://www.myflfamilies.com/services/child-family/child-care/training-and-credentialing.

Common Career Technical Core – Career Ready Practices

Career Ready Practices describe the career-ready skills that educators should seek to develop in their students.  These practices are not exclusive to a Career Pathway, program of study, discipline or level of education.  Career Ready Practices should be taught and reinforced in all career exploration and preparation programs with increasingly higher levels of complexity and expectation as a student advances through a program of study. 

1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. 

2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. 

3. Attend to personal health and financial well-being. 

4. Communicate clearly, effectively and with reason. 

5. Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions. 

6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation. 

7. Employ valid and reliable research strategies. 

8. Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 

9. Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management. 

10. Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals. 

11. Use technology to enhance productivity. 

12. Work productively in teams while using cultural/global competence. 

Standards

After successfully completing this program, the student will be able to perform the following:

01.0	Demonstrate the processes of setting up a family child care home business.
02.0	Demonstrate basic knowledge of principles and concepts of child development.
03.0	Describe basic knowledge of the domains of child development.
04.0	Demonstrate how to observe children.
05.0	Identify signs of and reporting procedures for possible child abuse and neglect.
06.0	Document and maintain required records for a family child care home.
07.0	Demonstrate hygiene and sanitation procedures for the family child care home.
08.0	Explain the importance of health and safety in a family child care home
09.0	Determine ways to prevent health and safety hazards with in a family child care home.
10.0	Determine child care practices in the areas of nutrition, physical fitness, and kitchen safety for a family child care home.
11.0	

Florida Department of Education
Student Performance Standards

Program Title:	Family Child Care Training
Career Certificate Program Number:	V200410

This program covers components of the DCF 40-hour Introductory Child Care Training coursework. To offer and teach this training, approval must be obtained from the local DCF Child Care Training Coordinators Agency and the instructor must meet the trainer requirements established by DCF.  Additional information regarding family child care home training can be found at https://www.myflfamilies.com/services/child-family/child-care/training-and-credentialing.

Course Number: HEV0119  
Occupational Completion Point: A 
Family Child Care Provider – 30 Hours	
01.0	Demonstrate the processes of setting up a Family Child Care home business.  The student will be able to:	
01.01	Summarize the key business considerations of particular concern to owners of family child care homes.	
01.02	Identify other sources of information and assistance when needed.	
01.03	List what is needed to prepare a home to operate as a family child care business.	
01.04	Prepare a parent handbook that includes the policies and procedures of a family child care home.	
01.05	Prepare a contract for parents, which includes hours/days of operation, fees, meals, field trips/other transportation, emergency information/contacts, termination procedures, illness policy, discipline policy, and parent signatures.	
01.06	Prepare a marketing plan for a family child care home business.	
01.07	Locate available resources who are familiar with tax preparation for Family Childcare Homes.  	
01.08	Set up business records for a family child care home.	
01.09	Explain how to obtain liability insurance for a home based business.	
01.10	Create a professional development plan.	
01.11	List the steps for acquiring accreditation.	
01.12	List the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for child care providers.	
02.0	Demonstrate basic knowledge of principles and concepts of child development.  The student will be able to:	
02.01	Describe the basic principles of child development.	
02.02	Identify specific examples of children's behavior by describing which domain each represents.	
02.03	Describe the general age categories used to talk about young children.	
02.04	Recognize common milestones in the physical/motor domain of child development.	
02.05	Demonstrate an understanding of basic child growth and development principles offered in learning environments for typically and atypically developing children that illustrates these principles in children’s learning.	
03.0	Demonstrate basic knowledge of the domains of child development.  The student will be able to:	
03.01	Describe language development and communication skills in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.	
03.02	Describe the emergent literacy skills of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children.	
03.03	Describe cognitive development and general knowledge milestones and practices of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children.	
03.04	Describe social/emotional development milestones and practices of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children.	
03.05	Describe caretaker techniques that can support the social/emotional development of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children across all domains of development.	
03.06	Describe physical development skills of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school age children.	
04.0	Demonstrate how to observe children.  The student will be able to:	
04.01	Demonstrate key principles of observing children.	
04.02	Observe a child's behavior and decide if it represents typical developmental progress for the child's age.	
04.03	Use a behavior/developmental checklist and determine which skills you observed.	
04.04	Discuss items that the caregiver can do when talking to parents about developmental concerns.	
04.05	Determine the difference between guidance and discipline verses punishment.	
04.06	List the key benefits of conducting a developmental screening in a family child care setting.	
04.07	List ways caregivers can use a child's developmental information.	
04.08	Demonstrate the ability to understand and describe the childcare professional’s role in the observing and screening process of children in a childcare environment.	
04.09	Describe best practices used by skilled Family Childcare Providers to obtain valid and usable results.	
05.0	Identify signs of and follow reporting procedures for possible child abuse and neglect.  The student will be able to:	
05.01	Recognize and distinguish between the various signs, symptoms and indicators of child abuse and neglect that might be observed by a childcare professional.	
05.02	Understand what the statues require of childcare professionals with knowledge of abuse and neglect.	
05.03	Describe proper procedures to follow when reporting suspicions of abuse.	
05.04	State the difference between "reasonable suspicion" and "proof" as it regards to child abuse and neglect.	
05.05	Define good faith report and neglect.	
05.06	Describe the difference between legal corporal punishment and abuse.	
05.07	Describe shaken baby syndrome.	
05.08	Explain Causes and Risk Factors of Child Abuse and Neglect.	
06.0	Document and maintain required records for a family child care home.  The student will be able to:	
06.01	Differentiate between a licensed and a registered family child care home.	
06.02	List and prepare documents used in a family child care home that are required by law.	
06.03	Understand the role of the Child Care Licensing Counselor (CCL) and the role of the Department of Children and Families (DCF).	
06.04	Discuss personnel issues, staff training, supervision, access and ratios, health records and understand their implications for a family child care home.	
06.05	Discuss the importance of 402.319, F.S., regarding penalties for misrepresentation and fraudulent actions in family child care homes.	
06.06	Conduct a self-inspection using a home day care inspection list.	
07.0	Demonstrate hygiene and sanitation procedures for the family child care home.  The student will be able to:	
07.01	Explain the importance of hand washing.	
07.02	Demonstrate proper hand washing techniques.	
07.03	Discuss the use of individualized towels and washcloths.	
07.04	Demonstrate the proper use of a diaper-changing table.	
07.05	Discuss how to properly handle soiled items.	
07.06	Demonstrate proper cleaning and sanitizing procedures for potty-chairs.	
07.07	Explain the Universal Precautions.	
07.08	Explain the difference between hygiene and sanitation.	
07.09	Discuss the implications of Administrative Code 65C-20.010, F.A.C., Health and Safety Related Requirements.	
08.0	Explain the importance of health and safety in a family child care home.  The student will be able to:	
08.01	Describe the signs of good health and ill health.	
08.02	Recognize common signs of communicable diseases that warrant isolation and complete the requirements of Administrative Code 65C-20.010(4)(a) & (b), F.A.C.	
08.03	Demonstrate procedures for establishing and using an isolation area and handling linens, towels and bedding.	
08.04	Determine the severity of a child's physical condition after an accident or onset of illness.	
08.05	Follow procedures for administering and storing medication.	
08.06	Describe what a fully stocked first aid kit must have and know the procedures for keeping it stocked.	
08.07	Post emergency numbers and follow emergency response procedures.	
08.08	Follow fire safety codes.	
08.09	Conduct required number of fire drills.	
09.0	Determine ways to prevent health and safety hazards with in a family child care home.  The student will be able to:	
09.01	Locate potential hazards and safety equipment for a family child care home.	
09.02	Explain procedures for storing toxic and hazardous materials.	
09.03	Describe and implement methods for minimizing common home safety pitfalls.	
09.04	Describe and identify areas of indoor and outdoor safety.	
09.05	Conduct a pre-inspection based upon the requirements of the family home child care guide to inspections.	
09.06	List ways to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.	
10.0	Determine child care practices in the areas of nutrition and kitchen safety for a family child care home.  The student will be able to:	
10.01	Recognize if specific nutritional child care practices are acceptable or not.	
10.02	Use the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) current dietary guidelines (http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/dietary-guidelines) as a tool for planning nutritious meals.	
10.03	Define the following concepts: individual feeding, age-appropriate feeding, common feeding problems, quantity, quality, variety and balance.	
10.04	Use recommended techniques regarding meal patterns, menu variety, changing food tastes and feeding abilities	
10.05	Identify the main food groups and what they include.	
10.06	Identify appropriate quantity and nutritional quality in the foods served at a family child care home.	
10.07	Use a checklist to evaluate and troubleshoot a family child care home menu.	
10.08	Define potable.	
10.09	List and provide the documentation needed for children with special dietary needs.	
10.10	Give examples of sanitary food preparation techniques.	

Additional Information

Laboratory Activities

Laboratory investigations that include scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, emerging technologies, tools and equipment, as well as, experimental, quality, and safety procedures are an integral part of this career and technical program/course. Laboratory investigations benefit all students by developing an understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills required to manage, operate, calibrate and troubleshoot equipment/tools used to make observations. Students understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data. Equipment and supplies should be provided to enhance hands-on experiences for students.

Special Notes

This program is approved by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) as meeting the training requirements for family child care home personnel, 65C-20, F.A.C.  *** To offer and teach this program, approval must be obtained from the local DCF Child Care Training Coordinators Agency and the instructor must meet the trainer requirements established by DCF.  Additional information regarding family child care home training can be found at https://www.myflfamilies.com/services/child-family/child-care/training-and-credentialing. 

Cooperative Training – OJT

On-the-job training is appropriate but not required for this program.  Whenever offered, the rules, guidelines, and requirements specified in the OJT framework apply. 

Accommodations

Federal and state legislation requires the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities to meet individual needs and ensure equal access. Postsecondary students with disabilities must self-identify, present documentation, request accommodations if needed, and develop a plan with their counselor and/or instructors. Accommodations received in postsecondary education may differ from those received in secondary education. Accommodations change the way the student is instructed. Students with disabilities may need accommodations in such areas as instructional methods and materials, assignments and assessments, time demands and schedules, learning environment, assistive technology and special communication systems. Documentation of the accommodations requested and provided should be maintained in a confidential file.

Note: postsecondary curriculum and regulated secondary programs cannot be modified.