Unlicensed Relative Providers

Care 4 Kids Overview for Unlicensed Relative Providers

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Descripción General de Care 4 Kids para Proveedores Familiares sin Licencia

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One-Time Orientation Requirements:

  • Provider Orientation Program (POP) Pre-service Training. Unlicensed Relative Providers will be eligible for payment the day after the POP training is completed.
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Health and Safety Requirements:

  • All unlicensed home-based providers must be related to the child by blood, marriage, or adoption. This means the child is a grandchild, great-grandchild, niece, nephew, or sibling (only a sibling living outside of the child’s home) to the provider.  If you are not related, you must have a license from the Office of Early Childhood Division of Licensing to provide child care.
  • All relative providers must be 20 years of age or older.
  • All new relative providers may only care for a total of three (3) children at a time.  Of those children, only two (2) children may be under the age of two.
  • All relative providers must complete and post this Emergency Plan. Emergency Plan    Plan de Emergencia
  • All current Care 4 Kids relative providers may only care for a total of three (3) children at a time.  Of those children, only two (2) children may be under the age of two.

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Department of Children and Families (DCF) and Criminal Background Checks

All unlicensed Care 4 Kids providers must complete the DCF Authorization for Release of Information Form online from the Care 4 Kids website.  This form is used by DCF to complete a background check for unlicensed providers.  Care 4 Kids will notify providers by mail when a DCF Authorization for Release of Information is due. Submission of this form is an eligibility requirement of the Care 4 Kids program and must be submitted to Care 4 Kids by the due date on the notice.   Click here to complete the DCF Authorization for Release of Information form.

All Care 4 Kids unlicensed providers are subject to criminal background checks.  If the results of the criminal background check confirm a crime on the crimes list, the provider will be made ineligible for Care 4 Kids. Click here for a complete crime list