Training for Child Care Businesses: Start Strong, Stay Strong
Build It Strong: Child Care Business Fundamentals is an 18-hour training course series that provides the fundamental skills and strategies to open and maintain a sustainable child care business in a family program or group center.
Build It Strong is offered by trainers who have been there. The trainers have years of experience managing family programs and group centers, so they know the challenges you face and why you love doing this work. The goal is to make your business more efficient and profitable: start thriving, not just surviving. Need more information about Build It Strong? Complete the interest form.
The WECA Food Program is instrumental for licensed or certified family child care providers to serve nutritionally balanced meals and snacks to children throughout Wisconsin. Supported through funding from the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), it remains the only food program in Wisconsin to serve providers, children and families in all 72 counties and all Tribal nations.
The REWARD Wisconsin Stipend Program provides vital supplemental financial support to early childhood educators who continue to work in an under-compensated and under-resourced field.
T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Wisconsin offers scholarships to early childhood educators to make credit-based education more affordable, improve teacher compensation, and increase early childhood educator retention.
Focused on what’s possible for the future of early care and education when we all work together, WEESSN offers an ever-growing variety of resources and benefits to providers for FREE. It supports Wisconsin regulated child care programs with ways to make their jobs easier, more efficient, and less stressful.