Family Child Care Entrepreneurship
Certificate of Achievement Early Childhood Development · Chabot College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Ethnic Studies - Associate in Arts
Description
This certificate provides students interested in opening a home-based child care business with the essential early childhood education AND essential administrative and entrepreneurship skills they will need to successfully start and operate a business. This certificate will enable a family childcare operator to be a fully qualified teacher according to state standards, to understand the operations/administration of a child care facility, to learn basic entrepreneurship skills, and will provide students with an additional certificate credential to use in marketing.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon the successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
- Use their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for each child in their family child care.
- Assess the value of traditional and new local promotional tools, and be able to select and utilize appropriate tools for family child care business
| Course | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ECD 50 | Early Childhood Principles and Practices (Active) | 3 |
| ECD 56 | Child Growth and Development (Active) | 3 |
| ECD 62 | Child, Family and Community (Active) | 3 |
| ECD 63 | Early Childhood Curriculum (Active) | 4 |
| ENTR 1 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Active) | 3 |
| ENTR 20 | Marketing for Entrepreneurs (Active) | 3 |
| Total | 19 | |
Other Information
Discipline: Social Sciences, Humanities & Education
Program Control Number: 38098
TOP Code: 130500 - Child Development/Early Care and Education
CIP Code: 19.0709 - Child Care Provider/Assistant