Chebucto Family Centre Home Child Care Agency helps care providers offer quality, accessible, and affordable child care for families in their own community.
Why Family Home Child Care?
Chebucto Family Centre Home Child Care Agency: helps care providers offer quality, accessible, and affordable child care for families in their own community. We believe that play-based learning, within a supported environment encourages healthy child development and allows children to learn at their pace. By ensuring care providers are well supported, connected to their community and engaged in training and professional development; families will receive both affordable and quality child care.
Chebucto Family Centre Home Child Care Agency is funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to approve and support care providers offering child care in their homes.
Benefits for the Child Care Provider:
- Free consultation and home visits
- Personalized support providing child care in your home
- Free training and child development workshops
- Resource and toy lending library
- Community awareness as a regulated in-home child care provider
- Ability to accept families with subsidized child care.
Benefits for the Family:
- Quality regulated care in a home based environment
- Attachment focused care; siblings can enroll together and children can remain with the same provider from infancy through to school-age.
- Ability to receive subsidy if eligible.
- Access to Fee Reductions as per the Canada Wide Childcare Agreement for all children enrolled in regulated care.
- Care, resources and connections within your community
Ongoing training and support is provided including assistance with the following requirements: Criminal Record Check, Child Abuse Registry and Professional Development.
For information related to becoming a regulated provider:
For assistance finding regulated childcare within our Family Home Program:
- Email a consultant.
- Connect with providers who have open availability listed in our directory.
- Check the “Featured” tab on our Facebook Page.
For feedback, questions, or concerns regarding our Family Home Program:
- Reach out to our director, Jane Hall, via email.
Take a peak into our Family Home Childcare Program, view available childcare spaces, or explore upcoming public events over on Facebook.