Hi, Gretchen! Just curious if you've started this! Almost 5 years later??? I live in Chicago and would love to know more about your progress!
Thanks, Nikki [email protected] On Tuesday, August 4, 2009 9:42:35 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > 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. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
