Child Care Options: A Workplace Initiative for the 21st Century / Edition 1

by Madeline Fried, Margery L. Sher

Overview

Child Care Options presents the facts, the background information, and the special considerations involved in discussing and selecting on-site or near-site child care, as well as programs designed to deal with difficult child-care situations. As authorities in work/family relations, the authors share the firsthand knowledge and experience they have gained as consultants to such diverse groups as the Washington Post, American Labs, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897748582
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/29/1994
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

MARGERY LEVEEN SHER has been a teacher, an advocate, an advisor, and an administrator for 20 years. She is an authority on family and dependent care sues and early childhood education. In 1984, Ms. Sher was selected Child Care Professional of the Year by Fairfax County, Virginia. She was appointed a member of the Day Care Council of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1985, as well as a member of the Virginia General Assembly Joint Subcommittee to study corporate involvement in child care. Ms. Sher has served on the national advisory panel of the Child Care Action Campaign since 1988. She currently serves on the board of the Greater Washington Businesses for Social Responsibility. Ms. Sher is listed in Who's Who of American Women.

MADELINE FRIED is an expert in the work and family field. She has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, supervision, administration, community relations, fiscal management, and family advocacy. She has developed innovative programs in employer-supported child care, child care consortia, family satellite care systems, school-age programs, and infant child care. Fairfax County, Virginia named Ms. Fried Child Care Professional of the Year in 1986. She was named a commissioner of the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs and has been elected to the board of ACCCI—Society of Work-Family Professionals.

Table of Contents

Child Care! What Does That Have to Do with Our Business?
Child Care Choices: Multitudes in the Valley of Decision
Decisions: You Can Sleep on a Matter Before You Decide, Unless You Have a Competitor Who Doesn't Need the Sleep
A Child Care Center! What Are We Getting Into?
Legal Issues: The Good of the People Is the Chief Law
Finances: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Bottom Line
Child Care Facility Design: More Than Building Codes
Management: If We Do It, Who's Going to Run It?
Special Tips: Nothing Succeeds like Success
A Note to Small Businesses
An Invasion of Armies Can Be Resisted, but Not an Idea Whose Time Has Come
Appendixes
Executive Summaries
Partial Listings of Employer-Supported Child Care
Child Care Center Liability Insurance Carriers
Current Day Care Licensing Offices
Resources for Playground Information
A Sampling of Architectural Firms with Child Care Center Experience
Resource Organizations
Child Care Inventory (CCPI) Evaluation Criteria
Application for Board of Directors
Index

Editorial Reviews

Provides information for businesses seeking to create and select child care alternatives and develop child care programs in the workplace. Places child care into the context of current and future demographic trends and discusses legal, financial, design, and management details of direct-service child care, including information specifically for small businesses. Appendices list corporate-sponsored child care programs, insurance carriers, licensing information, and architectural and playground resources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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