A Strategy to Offset the High Cost of Operating Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Programs: Diversify! By Joanne Hurt and Gerald Bolden

Making ends meet in early childhood programs is always a challenge. Ensuring financial sustainability requires innovation and creativity. Tuition, subsidies, and occasional fundraising often fall short, so it may be time to diversify your program. Expanding your offerings to include before- and after-school care could be the key to balancing your budget.

This webinar, presented by two highly experienced child care administrators, Joanne Hurt and Gerald Bolden, will explore strategies, considerations, and benefits of expanding your preschool program to include school age care programming. Joanne and Gerald will cover strategies for budgeting, locating facilities, and meeting regulatory requirements. You will also learn a little about programming strategies that wow school age children and their families. The eye-opening webinar will provide the highlights you need to plan to launch a school age program that complements and strengthens your preschool program’s business model.

In this webinar you will learn:

• The benefits and value of school age care: for children, families, and the preschool program business model.

• How to evaluate if expanding your programming will strengthen your business model.

• To consider capacity considerations – what will it take to add school age programming?

• Learn some of the key ingredients for high quality school age care.