BetterCare's Comprehensive Approach to Backup Care: Last-minute care, carefully planned for
As Parents, we all want to know our children are safe, especially during those crucial school-to-home transitions or being introduced to a new Caregiver. BetterCare shares this sentiment and put in place several innovative measures to ensure the smoothest, most secure and communicative transitions possible.
One of the first steps BetterCare takes is providing Parents with digital Caregiver profiles, including not just their credentials but also a copy of their driver's license. This information can be quickly and easily emailed to your child's preschool, meeting preschool security protocol’s for releasing children.
Moreover, BetterCare's Caregivers wear lanyards with their BetterCare ID. This visible proof of identity ensures preschools and Parents can easily verify Caregiver’s identity, making the pick-up process more secure for all involved.
Building rapport with children is another essential aspect of BetterCare’s approach. Caregivers are provided with gifts such as crayons and coloring books to help build a relationship with the child, making the transition from school to home an enjoyable experience.
In addition to these measures, BetterCare also offers a Care Package to Parents. This package includes a bag with a few items a Caregiver might need, such as band-aids and syringes. It’s suggested parents augment this with additional items. Placing an extra thermometer and bottle of medicine with a syringe, and storing the bag in an accessible place to the Caregiver, allows a parent to say, “Little Johnny’s care bag is in the cabinet next to the fridge.” And with that the Caregiver is equipped with all the necessary materials, including a child care sheet, which we will talk about next.
The child care sheet BetterCare provides truly enhances the caregiving experience for all parties. This document provides a space for parents to include information about the child's favorite toys, food preferences, potty training status, and more. It’s an instrumental tool for the Caregiver to understand and cater to the child's individual needs when constant parental guidance isn’t feasible. It also provides a space to say if the child’s temperature reaches a certain degree, specific medicine can be administered. This care sheet was thoughtfully designed by Parents and Caregivers to anticipate questions and needs a Caregiver may have when caring for a child for the first time.
Finally, to address the logistical challenge of child transportation, BetterCare provides car seats to Caregivers. This ensures Caregivers are equipped, without incurring extra cost to parents by having to purchase a new car seat. Car seats are stored at the child’s preschool as though belonging to the parent, and the Caregiver picks up the seat when picking up a child, and leaves the seat with the family at the end of the day. The next time the family goes to school they return the car seat. This way, Caregivers learn how to safely install one type of car seat and no matter what family they are paired with they use the same seat.
In conclusion, BetterCare’s comprehensive approach to school-to-home transitions and last-minute care scenarios reflects their commitment to providing informative and seamless childcare. By focusing on elements like caregiver identification, building rapport, and logistical concerns, they ensure Parents can breathe easy, knowing they’ve carefully planned, with BetterCare’s help, for their child's last-minute care scenario in the best possible way.
— YOUR BETTERCARE TEAM
