DCFS informations

Eva Camacho asked us that we send this information:

 

• If you are sending your package to request a new license, send it to the office of Waukegan, 500 N Green Bay Rd, Waukegan IL 60085. Then, to renew, making changes, additional paperwork, send all to your office Elgin 595 S State St, Elgin IL 60123. Ph 847-888-7620. Fax 847-888-5583.

• If you receive a visit that will live for a while at home, tell DCFS that there is another person in your house, and you should take phishing, and fingerprints. If he are 18 years or older, you should use the green form.

• Have an assistant is optional. The assistant can take and collect children from school if he have a valid license and the car qualifies.

• The assistant must have updated CPR and First Aid.

• If a child under 18 years is helping you, you can never be left alone with children. For example,you cannot leave him in the yard with the kids while you're cooking at home. He has to be where you can see and hear them.

• The license form Child Support Certification only must be signed by the applicant and spouse, not children or assistant.

• In the green form of physical, DCFS only asks you tuberculosis test in the initial license. Therefore it is not necessary for DCFS, but the doctor may ask for it.

• People in the house who are 17 years or less do not present the green form, but the phishing when they go to school.

• The children phishing is valid for 2 years, the providers and members of the house phishing for 3.

• If your crib is before April 2011 you can only have it if the manufacturer has a certificate that meets current safety standards. Check safety standards https://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx to see if your crib is considered safe.

• Keep next to the phone and in the medicine cabinet a list of emergency phone: Abuse number: 1-800-252-2873 or 1-800-25.  Local police and fire telephone: 911. And the telephone numbers of parents .

• Immediately notify all changes and renovations in your home to DCFS.

• Put the radon test results with his license.

• Gurnee: there are areas where it is not allowed babysitting. Check with city codes before buying a home child care. If you are already caring, stay quiet, and  not ask.

• Keep your contract, the fire plan and safety plan. You can get it at http://thechildcarenetworkoflakecounty.blogspot.com/ blog but you need to adapt it.

• The contract must have the discipline policy, the emergency plan, including where to leave children, and consequences for being late.

• Each year you must renew your Gateways card.

• To renew it, don’t send copies of certificates of training, print the list of workouts, and send. However you need to keep a copy of the training that has not been given by INCCRRA.

If you need help with Gateways, call 309-557-1818 English, 309-834-1230 Leticia, in Spanish. Or go with Belem Estrada 847-263-8324; she will charge you $ 25 per hour that occupy.