How to Start a Daycare in a Church

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Sarah Norris from Total Childcare Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, and today I would like to talk with you about how to start childcare in a church facility. The most important thing that you can do to start with in this process is to be sure that the church, the congregation, the people, are one hundred percent in tune with the idea of having that type of program within their facility. And then you will need to meet with a number of people in the church, including the committee heads that would be involved in this type of program. You will need to decide what type of program, whether it's going to be just for the church members, or whether it's going to be for the community at large. You will need to decide the size of the program, whether it will meet the needs just of church members children, or if it will meet needs of the children within the community. And you will need to decide how you will regulate that program, whether it will be a fully licensed facility. In North Carolina you may, and in some other states, be able to do a religious sponsored facility, which does not have to meet all the regulations. But number one is to be sure that the church is totally involved and committed to this project. So these are a few of the first things that you would need to in order to begin a program in a church facility."