Written by: SATANICRAvEN316
Investigation of Child Care Options
For this report I decided to do research on the Lipton Corporate Child Care Center, which is located in White Plains NY. I learned about this center through applying for a teaching position that they had available and within two weeks I was allowed to work for the center part time. While working this past week I was able to find out important information for parents who are interested in this Child Care Center.
The Lipton Center is a corporate based company which only allows specific corporate companies to advertise their child care center through use of that company's human resource office. For example, the Heineken company advertises to their workers ( who have children) through e-mails or bulletin boards about the Lipton Center with permission from the center. If a parent wanted to find out more about the Lipton Center, there are numbers available for different sites and different states, there are centers all over the Tri State area, including Philadelphia, New Jersey, Virgina, and Washingtion DC. Usually parents will notify their Human Resource office about their interest in the center and the office will set up a meeting at the specific location in which the parent requested. If a parent was interested in the White Plains location, they would be meeting with Rebecca Rosenberg where she would discuss all the available options that would accommodation the parents and the child.
If parents wanted to enroll their child into the program, the average cost for children 3-12months at 3 days a week would be $362 dollars, any additional days would be an additional $133 dollars. The older the child is the less costly it becomes, for example if a child is over 37 months, it is $232 dollars for 3 days a week, the additional cost for extra days would be $0 dollars. Before the parents can have the center care for their child, they first must pay a one time registration fee and fill out a registration packet which includes a photo of the child and requires a yearly medical exam form to be filled out by the child's doctor.
The Lipton child care program includes: drop off at 8 am/ 6 pm pick up, light snacks every 3 hours, nap time, diaper change every 2 hours, arts and crafts, and out door activities. You will find a newly designed infant room with cribs, bouncers, and a rocking chair. There is a laundry room in the back for all linens to be freshly cleaned daily. Aside from the infant room there are 3 areas that are designed for specific age groups: toddler, pre k, and for the children over 6 years old. Accommodations go as far as use of specific creams for diaper changing, full knowledge of all allergies and morning drop off checks where the child care providers look for any signs of sickness. There are daily log ins of snacks, naps, and diaper changing for the parent to have on record.
Parents are only allowed to make reservations a day or more prior to the day in which they will need child care, they are not allowed to have their child dropped off after school hours. They are required to have a full day of child care unless there is an emergency in which the child has a half a day at school and the parent only has time to drop the child off at the center. Although there is no available child care for after school hours and over night staying, the Lipton Center does have a program called Work Life Connect in which helps with Back Up Child Care, Full Service Child Care, and In Home Child Care. This program helps parents who are part of the Lipton Center find a suitable full time child care provider or an at home nanny for those who need one, there is no fee for use of this service.
Overall, the Lipton Child Care Center, provides greatly for not only the parents but for the child as well. Once you walk into the facility you will instantly feel at home, this is what makes this center unique and desirable. Efficient and thought out child care is hard to come by being as how I am from the Bronx and have personally experience other child care centers. Some centers do not provide such detail in caring of the children but the Lipton center does and I am glad to say I work for such an impressive center.