Guides for program owners.

Plain guides for starting and running a child care program, a camp or an after-school program. Every fact links to its source.

Start a program

Step-by-step guides for a center and a home daycare, read on each state’s own pages.

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Are these guides legal advice?

No. Each guide sums up official pages and links to them. Rules change, so check with your state.

How current are these guides?

Each guide shows the day its sources were checked on official pages.

Which guides are here?

Starting an after-school program or a day camp, funding, insurance, marketing, names and camp staff.

Each fact links to the official page it came from.

This page sums up official pages. It is not legal, tax or insurance advice, and rules change.

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