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Community Resources : Benefits For Beginners

What is Benefits for Beginners?

BFB is a program designed as a response to the critical need for quality child care in Sioux, Lyon, Plymouth and Cherokee counties.

BFB mission is to help child care providers, parents and early childhood workers understand children's developmental stages and needs and to help caregivers improve their interaction techniques.

Who is Benefits for Beginners?
BFB was created through Northwest Iowa Community Empowerment. They have employed a Child Care Development Specialist on staff with Child Care Resource and Referral of Northwest Iowa. The office is located at Mid-Sioux Opportunity, Inc. in Remsen, IA.

What Kind of Training is Offered?
Topics may include:

  • Ages and Stages
  • Age Appropriate Activities
  • Brain Development
  • Guidance and Discipline
  • Environments
  • Curriculum
  • Health & Safety

The goal is to have three sponsored workshops per county per year. You will ideally have access to 12 trainings per year being held in the four county Empowerment area:
Lyon, Sioux, Plymouth and Cherokee counties


The Development Specialist:

PROMOTES
Trainings on Child Development

PROVIDES
Individual, On-site, Follow-up Trainings

FACILITIES
The Quality Rewards program


Quality Rewards
a point system for child care providers that:

  • recognizes and rewards current accomplishments
  • encourages setting and attaining additional goals

    As you reach your goals, you accumulate points, which you can use to shop for toys, books and equipment found in a variety of early childhood catalogs.


How do I earn points?

Call 1-800-859-2025 for more details!