Family child care providers are required to follow DELACARE: Regulations for Family and Large Family Child Care Homes (Effective 08/10/2022)

These forms are used for family child care homes and will help you to follow DELACARE regulations.

  1. Accident or Injury Report
  2. Adult Health Appraisal
  3. Annual Training Form – FCCH
  4. Annual Parents Right to Know Notice Log Kent and Sussex
  5. Annual Parents Right to Know Notice Log New Castle
  6. Child File Checklist
  7. Child Health Appraisal
  8. Child Information Card
  9. CPR and First Aid Training Resource List
  10. Diabetes Medical Management Plan
  11. Emergency Phone Numbers
  12. Emergency Plan
  13. Infant Daily Log
  14. Infant Feeding Schedule
  15. Level II Provider Request Form
  16. Medication Administration Record – Emergency or as Needed Use
  17. Medication Administration Record – Routine or Limited Use
  18. Menu Evaluation Form (Kent and Sussex)
  19. Menu Evaluation Form (NCC)
  20. Monthly Fire Prevention Inspection Checklist and Drill
  21. Orientation Record Substitute for Emergency Use
  22. Orientation Record Substitute for Non-Emergency Use
  23. Sample Parent/Guardian Handbook for FCC and LFCC
  24. Parents Right to Know Notice-Kent and Sussex Counties – for tours
  25. Parents Right to Know Notice-New Castle County – for tours
  26. Pre-Service Training Resource List
  27. Relocation License Application – FCCH
  28. Renewal License Application – FCCH
  29. Required Parent Permissions (Kent and Sussex)
  30. Required Parent Permissions (NCC)
  31. Sample Authorization for Care by Non-Intravenous Injection
  32. Sample Release and Waiver of Liability for Non-Intravenous Injection
  33. Variance Request

Information Sessions

If you are interested in opening a Family Child Care Home, please review the upcoming training calendar for dates and time.  Once you decide on a day and time, sign up for Family Child Care Home Information Session to be registered or call 302-892-5800 in New Castle County or 302-739-5487 in Kent and Sussex Counties.

Community-Based Training

Attention community-based trainers: In an effort to increase the amount of trainings offered to the child care provider community, you can now post your upcoming trainings on this site. Please enter the required information on the Post a Community-Based Training form or call 302-892-5800 in New Castle County or 302-739-5487 in Kent and Sussex Counties.

View New Castle County community-based training

View Kent County community-based training

View Sussex County community-based training

Quality-Assured Training

Taking quality-assured training is the best way to make sure the training is appropriate, meaningful, includes best practices, and is taught by a highly competent instructor. Please visit Quality Assured Professional Development – Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (udel.edu), Delaware Professional Development Now, or Professional Pursuits to view quality-assured training.

In order to give medication to children as a child care provider, you must be certified to administer medication. There are two ways to become certified.

  1. Complete the training and certification online by completing the following steps:
    • Go to the Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (DIEEC) web site.
    • Next log in or create an account.
    • Go to the Professional Learning tab and click online learning.
    • Click the link for DEPDNow online training opportunities.
    • Scroll down to Administration of Medication Certification. Click Register Now on the right.
    • On the registration received tab, click on the blue Administration of Medication Certification and this will take you to depdnow.com. To access training, click on “My Profile” which will take you to your Dashboard. Click Training Title on the Dashboard then click Here to access course.
    • Log into DEPDNOW with the same email and password that you used for DIEEC.

    If you have issues, please contact (888) 882-5294 for assistance.

  2. Self-study using the following Administration of Medication Self-Study Guide. You must register for the test by submitting a registration form.

If you are planning to administer non-intravenous injections, additional training as stipulated by the child’s health care provider is required. The following forms will also need to be completed: Diabetes Medical Management Plan, Sample Release and Waiver of Liability for Non-intravenous Injection and Sample Authorization for Care by Non-Intravenous Injection.

Grants and other funding are available to improve the quality of care or to purchase necessary items.

Capacity Grant

The Capacity Grant provides funding for quality improvement technical assistance strategies and grant resources to licensed child care programs to increase the supply of child care in areas where it is limited. Please visit Capacity Grant to apply.

The Child and Adult Care Food Program and Purchase of Care are two programs that help improve low income families’ access to quality child care homes and centers.

The Child & Adult Care Food Program

The Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) improves the quality of care for children by making it more affordable for many low-income families. Through CACFP, more than 3.3 million children receive nutritious meals and snacks each day. See how CACFP can make a difference in the quality of care! As a participating program, you will become part of a nationwide effort to improve children’s nutrition and will be teaching those children the foundation of a healthy lifestyle.

The following three agencies Catholic Charities, Delaware Parents Association, and Children and Families First manage the CACFP for child care centers, large family child care homes, and family child care homes in Delaware. Please contact an agency for more information about joining the CACFP.

Purchase of Care

Purchase of Care (POC) is a program that helps low-income families pay for their child care. As a provider, you have the option of contracting with the Division of Social Services (DSS) to care for children enrolled in POC. Becoming a POC provider means that you will accept DSS payment rates and will not charge parents any additional fees, other than those allowed in the contract.

If you do not want to come under POC contract and you are a licensed provider you can still accept POC children via the Self-Arranged payment option. This means the POC parent pays your full rate directly, but is only reimbursed the POC rate portion by DSS after you sign their monthly receipt for services.

If you are interested in contracting with POC, please contact the DSS Child Care Monitor for your county.

New Castle County: 302-255-9670
Kent County: 302-739-4437
Sussex County: 302-856-5569

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These websites may be used to enhance your program, provide you with information, and help answer questions you may have.