Are you looking for a new career and love working with children? There is a great need for quality child care programs in Steuben and Schuyler Counties. Check out all the different types of care below and let Pro Action Child Care Council help you get started today!

There are many benefits from becoming a child care provider:

• Earn income annually while being at home with your own children
• Be your own boss and have the independence to set your own hours
• Share your love of teaching and caring for young children
• Help parents support their families by making more child care options available
• Access to CACP which can reimburse for meals served to children 
• Receive referrals from our agency when parents are looking for childcare

Family Child Care

A Family Child Care home is a residence in which child care is provided on a regular basis, for more than three hours per day, per child, for up to eight children, for compensation. A family day care must renew their
registration every four years. 

Group Family Child Care

A Group Family Day Care home is a residence in which child care is provided on a regular basis, for more than three
hours per day, per child, for up to 16 children, for compensation. Such a home must be operated by a provider and have at least one assistant present during the hours that care is provided. A group family day care must renew their license every four years. 

School-Age and School Based Child Care

A school-aged child care program enrolls groups of seven or more children under 13 years of age during the school year before and/or after the period such children are ordinarily in school or during school lunch periods. School-age child care programs also may provide care during school holidays and those periods of the year in which school is not in session, including summer vacations. Such programs must operate consistent with the local school calendar. Care is provided in a facility that is not a residence. Registered school-age child care programs must renew their registration every four years.

Child Care Center

Child Day Care Center is a child care program or a facility that is not a residence, in which child care is provided on a regular basis, to more than six children, for more than three hours per day, per child, for compensation. A child day care center must renew their license every four years. 

Legally Exempt

An informal childcare program, in which childcare is provided in the child’s or provider’s residence. A legally exempt provider must renew their enrollment annually.