[potentialsinglemom]

Originally Posted by jarian

How did you do with finding a daycare? Are they willing to squeeze in a last minute call when you get a placement? Does your state pay daycare fees? I am shopping around now and I hope it's not going to be stressful. If the State does pay daycare, should we find centers that accept State payments? Did your CW give you a heads up as to what centers to call?

No, my cw was no help. I had asked her about other foster parents who could possible watch my children, and she said all the foster parents were at capacity for respite or they too worked out of the home. Do not be stressed, Girl it was fun. I took along one of my new coworkers and she enjoyed the fact that I was including her in the process and she was able to see how I was managing the process (she had been thinking of fostering). She asked questions like I asked questions.

In Texas, on our DFPS website, there is a "child care licensing link". You can search daycares by zip codes and by how often they are scheduled for inspections ( you will be surprise at how many day cares get inspected every zero to three mos), and you can see what their violations were, whether or not the parents, inspector the daycares themselves reported the violation. They, the website and daycares will tell you if they accept daycare subsidy.

There were some facilities who were willing to take the children on the a emergency standing, if there child census was not high. I did not choose one of those. I was looking for someone to help me with the molding of the mind and still allow them to be kids.


I talked to several administrator over the phone, and everyone that I talked to said "come by at ANY time." And that is what I did.
The daycare I chose, I actually visited twice at two different times. It was a "too good to be true situation". I heard the school was the "Bomb" with their standards, but I had no reason to experience it. It is actually ran by my church. And they accept the child daycare subsidy

In my state, there is child care assistance, it usually averages about two to three days before it takes affect. It is available to single foster parents who work 40 hrs wkly and to two parent foster homes where both the parents work 40 hrs or more.