monday, October 5, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 7
Service keeps home setting for children's care
By Leslie Kendrick
The Day Care Home Center, provided
through Family Service Child Care, 2202 S.
11th St., offers an alternative to traditional
child care centers and babysitters.
Catherine Koneya, an administrator
with the Day Care Home Care program,
said care givers in the program receive
training through the Family Service Child
Care. The care giver's homes are registered
in compliance with Nebraska laws on
family day care, she said. The Family Ser
vice Child Care requires that the women
care for no more than four or five children,
including their own.
Koneya said many of the women in the
home care program are wives of foreign
students. The service helps the foreign
wives by providing a source of income, t
chance to meet people in the community,
and a way for them to expand their know
ledge of English, she said.
Many of the foreign women providing
home care are exceptional people with
backgrounds in nursing, medicine and child
care, Koneya said. The women are always
interested in becoming better care givers,
she said. Foreign women have started in
the program within the last seven months,
she said.
Yolanda Crossa, 2820 T St., said she
likes child, care work because she likes
children and she can look after her own
children while working. Crossa and her
husband are from Uruguay.
She said the child care service is good
because Family Service checks up on the
care givers and provides on-going training.
Crossa said child care in the United
States differs from that in Uruguay. In
most Latin American countries, families
hire a person who takes care of the child in
the family's home.
Often the person is also a housekeeper,
she said. The person will either live with
the family or provide day services. It would
be impossible to have the same sort of care
in the United States because it would be
too expensive, Crossa said.
Vicki Alvarado, 3101 Kleckner Ct,
cares for a group of children ranging in age
from eight months to three years, in
addition to caring for her own child,
Sonya. Alvardo was a pediatrics and medi.
cal-surgical nurse in Honduras.
Alvarado said she contacted the service
about the day care services after hearing
about it from a friend.
Alvarado said she too likes the day care
work because she can care for her own
child. Her child also has an opportunity to
play with other children and to learn
English.
"When you know the ch Jdren it is easy
to care for them," she said, "It is not hard
work at all."
Care is provided from 7 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Koneya said. Care givers receive $6
a day per child and are reimbursed for'
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Care Home - Lisa Whyte (back) stands near her sister Amy (in swing) and Tiffany
(foreground) and their day care companions Phillip Goyette (in walker), care giver
Vicki Alvarado and her daughter, Sonia. Alvarado cares for the children at one of
three Day Care Home Care centers in Lincoln.
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meals by the service. The service also gives
the care giver $5 per child a month to buy
art supplies or special toys.
The home care service includes many
support services for the care giver, Koneya
said. The latest theories on child develop
ment and child care are presented to the
care givers in workshops given by the
Family Service Child Care.
A monthly newsletter is sent to the care
giver and the parents to share ideas and tips
on child care and ways to play with and
entertain children, Koneya said.
The care givers can check out such
equipment as cribs, play pens, toys, records
and films from the child care service,
Koneya said.
Medical and child development quest
ions are answered by Pat Johnson, the ser
vice's registered nurse. Johnson also visits
the care givers' homes.
Johnson said she interviews individuals
interested in providing home care. Johnson
said she checks on the physical setting of
the home. Care givers' homes must meet
state requirements, she said. For the home
to be registered with the state, the back
ground of the individual must be checked.
Individuals are screened by checking on
their knowledge of child development,
Johnson said.
"It takes a special person to provide
care for other children," she said. The pay
is not that great. They have to like child
ren and be able to tolerate them."
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