2004 Annual Report: Child Care Work

Making sure kids get nutritious food and snacks and quality family child care.

• Fed more than 12,400 children over 6,103,000 meals and snacks through an average of 1,440 Family Child Care providers in 63 of Ohio’s 88 counties.
• Reimbursed our Family Child Care providers $6,712,634 for providing nutritious meals and snacks.
  
• Expanded outreach throughout Ohio and conducted customer service survey by contacting Family Child Care providers for input to improve service.
  
• Assisted 60 newly immigrated Somali, Latino, and Southeast Asian women start Family Child Care businesses in their home.
  
• Offered early education and training and nutrition education focused on appropriate child serving sizes, increasing fruit and vegetable intake, increasing water intake, and increasing time for physical activity through over 6,000 home monitoring visits, resource center training contacts and group training sessions.
  
• Showed increased knowledge and planned behavior changes among a majority of the Family Child Care providers as a result of our enhanced services.
  
• Partnered with the Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, Start Smart Franklin County, Starting Point’s Early Childhood Initiative in Cuyahoga County, the Sisters of Charity of Stark County’s Quality Child Care Initiative to reach new and to assist current Family Child Care providers.
  
• Supported 31 caregivers through completion of the Child Development Associate (CDA) process and accreditation.
  * Partnered with Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services and Start Smart Franklin County to assist 254 Family Child Care providers with the certification process.
  
• Increased overall average score to 5 on a scale from 1-7 on the Themla Harms Assessment for 200 of 281 providers participating in Early Childhood Education training in the Cleveland area.
  
• Trained 2,890 Family Child Care providers in the Dayton region with 95% of the participants rating the training as “excellent”.
  
• Assisted 4,794 parents find quality child care through the Dayton Child Care Resource and Referral Department.
  
• Trained and modeled preliteracy and school readiness techniques in the home of 1,000 Family Child Care providers using food, nutrition and fitness as the content and theme through a grant from Bank One CARES (Children Are Ready for Education and Success). 90% of the participants reported increased time for reading and reduced television time.

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