WE CARE ENOUGH ABOUT YOUR CHILD TO BE REGISTERED
WITH THE STATE OF MARYLAND.

E-mail Bonnie Drayer and she will put your needs out to local
providers who may have an opening for you.

Bonnie Drayer - Association President  mdrayer921@aol.com

Please Include:
Name
Phone number
Number and Ages of children
School District or the area looking for care in.
Starting Date
Hours Needed
Parent's Page
Tired of calling provider after provider, only to
hear they don't have an opening for your child?   
                 WE CAN HELP!
Did you know that it is against the Md. state law to do child care
without a license? License providers have background checks, finger
printing, CPR, First Aid, Sids class, many hours of childhood classes,
water checks, fire inspections and many more things to ensure your
child's safety.  Please be sure that there is a license number listed
in advertisements anytime you are looking for care.  If not, you are
leaving your child in an unlicensed home.  Looking for that license
number is for your child's safety and it's also the law in the state of
Maryland.

The Calvert County Family Daycare Association will help you find
care in one of their many licensed homes.  Just call us and we will
put your needs out to the 190 registered providers in the county.  
We are not babysitters, we are Registered Child Care Providers.  
Most parents have results in 2 days!  


Family Child Care Update
January 4, 2011
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live
inside that hope.
-Barbara Kingsolver

A 2007 report by the National Center for Children in Poverty, "Family Child Care in the United States,"
based on a thorough review on recent research, offers these insights on family child care in the United
States...

  • Nearly one-quarter of all children are in family child care at some point before beginning
    elementary school.  Furthermore, the majority of young children with working mothers are cared
    for in private homes.  

  • These children spend an average of 31 hours per week in family child care, which can include
    nights and weekends.

  • Family child care providers make up a sizeable portion of small business owners in the USA.  
    Nationally, there are a total of 213,966 licensed family child care homes, which breaks down to
    166,514 small family child care homes (serving up to six children) and 47,452 large homes
    (serving 7 - 12 children).  

  • Families using home-based care (both regulated and unregulated) are more likely to prefer this
    care for infants and toddlers, but prefer preschools and centers for older children.

  • 95 percent of family child care providers are women.

  • 90 percent of family child care providers are parents themselves — about 33 percent care for
    their own children in addition to unrelated children.

  • Most family child care providers have low earnings ($15,000 to $25,000 annually for full-time care
    of low-income children) and most work long hours with little to no access to employment benefits.


  • The quality of care in family child care is not associated with the provider's age or years of
    experience, but positively correlated with the training and education the provider receives.

  • The majority of parents using family child care are satisfied with their arrangement.  Parents
    using family child care believe that their children receive more individual attention in home-based
    settings.
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