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TIPS FOR ESTABLISHING A
CHILD CARE MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Guest Speakers:
Theresa Santiago
Business Outreach Center Network, Inc.
85 S Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York
Minn Myint Nan Tin, Executive Director
Burmese Advocacy Center, Fort Wayne IN
Elizabeth W. Wilson, Entrepreneurship Consultant
Atlanta, GA

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Guest Speaker
Theresa Santiago
Director of Programs
Business Outreach Center
Network, Inc.
85 S Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Phone: 718.624.9115
Email: tsantiago@bocnet.org
Website: www.bocnet.org
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Mission
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To improve the economic prospects of traditionally disadvantaged groups and communities
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Genuine collaboration – that is, working together with culturally diverse individuals and organizations in service to a shared goal - is a hallmark of BOC.
Our partnership of centers has grown to serve diverse minority and immigrant neighborhoods and industrial business zones across New
York City and Newark, New Jersey.

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BOC Network's Child Care Business Development Project was developed in 2001 under an incremental grant through HHS that funded a public/private partnership model to support the start and expansion of child care businesses.
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A nine month pilot phase involved research and collaborative program development lead by BOC Network together with a team of child care and legal services experts along with active engagement with state and city agencies overseeing child care policy and practice.
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After 2 years experience in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, BOC began replication in additional neighborhoods.

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State and Local Regulations for Licensing
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Who regulates home-based child care?
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NJ: unregulated, but providers may choose to register through Child Care
Resource and Referral (CCR&R) Agencies ;
NY: NYS Office of Children and Family Services.
Is there any permit/license required?
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NJ: No, Family child care homes provide care for five or fewer children below 13 years of age without a license;
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NY: Yes, any day care program planning to serve three or more children for more than three hours a day on a regular basis must obtain a license or registration certificate.
Are there different types of licenses?
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NJ: No, Family child care is restricted to five or fewer children. Above that, a commercial child care center must be established.
NY: Tiered licensing based on space and number of staff

Know the Industry, Know the Regulations
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State Mandated Training Requirements
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Qualifications to provide training
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Does your State require child care providers to have certain level of education?
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Is there any training or credential required?
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Are there mandated training requirements for initial licensing, maintaining a license or gaining special status to receive public reimbursements
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What types of training curriculum for child care requires government approval, and by which agency?
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Who is authorized to provide required training? i.e. NY: Health and
Safety Training can only be provided by approved trainers with specific education and experience criteria.
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Must training space be inspected /approved .

Personal Barriers to Meeting Regulatory Requirements
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What are the language and literacy levels needed to complete courses/tests?
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Example: In New York, all applicants must demonstrate basic competency in
Health and Safety Procedures through demonstrations and written tests.
Do the target group(s) include regulated home-based child care providers already?
Are there cultural preferences and/or constraints?
Will the client qualify? re: legal requirements related to criminal background in the household, child abuse complaints, pets, adequate amount of space, medical requirements.
Is the client able to manage a relatively complex application process, home inspections, mandated recordkeeping, within the framework of project timetables?

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Become an industry expert - establish industry connections:
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Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR& R) Agencies are state funded, community-based organizations that provide many services related to child care. They don’t offer child care, but they offer help to parents and providers
(i.e. referrals, training, etc.)
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Child Care Contract Agencies are city funded private, non-profit organizations that operate childcare programs in communities, offer child care directly, and might subcontract private providers to offer child care services.
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Child Care Networks are private, non-profit organizations, not necessarily government funded, that provides a wide range of services to providers and parents such as training and networking.

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Add value to the existing infrastructure;
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Involve working collaborations that are mutually beneficial to the partners and offer added benefits to the clients;
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Focus on clients who are highly motivated to meet all requirements;
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Evaluate and address the personal barriers of individual clients up front, and
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Avoid putting clients through a process that does not have the potential for results/benefit.

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Guest Speaker
Minn Myint Nan Tin
Executive Director
Burmese Advocacy Center
2424 Lake Avenue
Fort Wayne IN, 46805
260.755.2048 Ext. 221(O)
260.797.9120 (Cell)
260.739.5268 (Fax)
Email: mnantin@bacindiana.org
Web site: www.bacindiana.org
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The Burmese Advocacy Center (BAC) was founded in 2008 with the commitment to improve the quality of life of all members of the Burmese community, regardless of ethnic group or religion in Fort Wayne, Indiana metropolis.
Programs
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Employment Training
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Healthcare Coordination
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Refugee Child Care Microenterprise
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Ethnic Self-Help Program
Refugee Microenterprise Child Care Program Approach
Partners
Four organizations partnered to create the Northeast Indiana Refugee Child Care
Coalition
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Community Action of Northeast Indiana, (CANI) Inc, Fort Wayne, IN
Red Cross, Fort Wayne, IN
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Early Childhood Alliance (ECA), Fort Wayne, IN
Burmese Advocacy Center – In FY2010 BAC experimented with a pilot program called the “Refugee Child Care Self-Sufficiency Project”

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Partners – Roles in the community and why we collaborated
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CANI has a long history of funding for immigrants, extensive experience with federal grants, and work experience with diverse groups.
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ECA is a regional child care resource and referral agency. It has provided training and technical assistance to family child care providers for almost two decades. ECA also sponsors child and adult care food programs, and family child care business classes.
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ARC has multicultural information exchange programs, they provide training in 46 different languages – CPR training, “Safe Sleep Practices” training, and Blood Borne Pathogens training.
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BAC provides case management, pre-language and cultural competency related training, evaluation, outreach/on site visit, assessment, and audit TB test.

Burmese Advocacy Center Refugee Microenterprise Child Care Clients

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Challenges in the process
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Limited Budget
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Limited education, lack of commitment, cultural gap, and the issue of trust with refugee clients
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Over commitment by program coordinators
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Compliance with landlords and/or housing authorities before opening a case
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Putting aside some resources for follow-up after certification
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Engaging appropriate bilingual staff

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Training refugee women to become employed through home-based childcare business (28 cases)
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Training refugee women to start their own home-based childcare businesses (2 women are going to be certified soon)
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Training refugee women to partner with community child care businesses
– no such training at the moment
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Number of women – 28 proposed to be trained and 15 to be certified

Burmese Advocacy Center Refugee Microenterprise Child Care Clients

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Expected Outcomes
Proposed Numbers: Long- and Short-Term
We opened 28 cases. 15 women to be certified by the end of the fiscal year - 10 are almost certified at the moment - this is our short term plan.
Partner Benefits
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Working with diverse immigrant populations
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More opportunities for federal contracts and childcare projects
Public relations
Employment and revenue generator
How we plan to extend services to more refugee women
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We will continue to partner and provide similar services
Continue using the same logic model
Do outreach to more refugee women

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G uest Speaker
Elizabeth W. Wilson
Entrepreneurship Consultant
Atlanta, GA
404-344-2601
Biznow@aol.com
Website www.elizabethwwilson.com
Company Website www.thecompanyofwomen.net
Follow Me
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Partial TA Client List:
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The Ethiopian Community Development
Corporation Arlington, VA
The COGIC Urban Initiatives Economic
Development St. Louis, MO
Elizabeth Wilson
President, EW & Associates
Atlanta, GA
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Good Africa Coffee of Uganda, Africa
African Community Health Institute San
Diego, CA
Somali African Parent Association,
Minneapolis, MN
Women’s Employment Opportunity Project,
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Refugee Women’s Network Atlanta,
GA
Elizabeth. former Director for the Association for
Enterprise Opportunity, the Trade Association for
Microenterprise in the US, is a true expert in low and moderate community economic development initiatives and policy. Her management portfolio exceeds over six million dollars to develop small businesses and includes initiatives funded by the eBay
Foundation, Hewlett Packard Philanthropy and the
Prudential Foundation.
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Philadelphia Development Partnership,
Philadelphia, PA
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Greater Newark Business Development
Consortium, Newark, NJ
CHAMAL, Lynchburg, VA
The WORLD (Welcoming of Refugees for
Lansing Development) Lansing, MI
Burmese Advocacy Center Fort Wayne, IN
Midwest Community Development
Corporation Minneapolis, MN
Sustainable Rural Regenerative Enterprises for Families Atlanta, GA.
4/13/2020
M. Wilson has a strong knowledge of urban, economic, and small business development. Since 1996, she has provided professional leadership and training in the development of microenterprise nonprofit services and management including program design, project planning, development budgeting, staff recruitment, marketing and fundraising in her various positions.
She is the author of business training curriculum and several books, including “When Life Gives You
Lemons, Open a Lemonade Stand” and “Young,
Gifted & Entrepreneurs”
EW & Associates, Inc.
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Business
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Poverty
Alleviation
Job
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Community
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Empowerment
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Over 600 Programs in 2010, up from 100 in 1989
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Serving around 100,000 clients; most programs serve fewer than 100 participants per year
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92% provide training & technical assistance
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31-58% of clients served start or improve a business
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25% of businesses started or improved get a loan
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Executive Summary
Business Description
Marketing Plan
Operations
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Management Plan
Financial Statements
Supporting Documents
(leases, licenses, contracts, etc.)

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