Hi Jodie, you might also want to contact Soma Vida in Austin, TX. They have child care a few days a week on the premises. My husband, Jason, and I are also looking at starting a coworking center with child care here in Chicago. Our local business development center has been very helpful...they filled us in on all the requirements. Here in Chicago opening a "day care" where the children are dropped off and the parents can leave the premises is very involved, but if you require the parents to be present and available (in the next room, for example) the certification process is way simpler. We're thinking of starting with that and then upgrading to "day care" if there is a need for it. We're just in the beginning stages as well...feel free to contact me if you want to "co-work" or just bounce ideas around. I don't know about you, but every work-at-home parent I have talked to about this gets very excited about the idea of having a place to work where their kids are involved in something other than the Disney Channel!
Gretchen Goodrich Chicago, IL On Jul 31, 5:47 pm, jodiegrace <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. I am new to this group. In the process of starting a co-work > space for parents with small children in my city here in Canada. Does > anyone have any experience incorperating childcare into the space. > > I am thinking about having a play room that could be unsupervised at > times, with a paid babysitter in for scheduled times during the week > for more supervision. Not too sure about the legalities of this. Is it > better to have members volunteer? > > Looking for feedback. I know there is a great need for this as it is > next to impossible to find part-time childcare and really costly when > all you may have to do is just a few hours of phone interviews and > work without childcare for the rest etc. > > Can't wait to hear any comments. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
