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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 633091" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>After-school care was always soo hard for us. By that time my kids were usually on overload and that is tough to handle, esp for difficult child and for thank you (his sensory issues made it really hard).</p><p></p><p>We never really found a solution other than having a parent (me) handle things rather than sending the kids to a program. </p><p></p><p>One thing I know some parents here do is to contact the local university dept of education or of child development and ask for recommendations of students who would be willing to handle the after-school care. If they have classes about Special Education, esp if some of the classes address the specific issues/diagnosis's that your kids have, this can be a win for the family and the student because the student gets real experience that is invaluable. There are almost always more students in the univ than openings for teachers in the daycare/after-school programs, so this is a great way to get hands-on experience. You can either ask the dept secretary or the professors for recommendations. You can even put up flyers on bulletin boards in some schools. We have a 4 yr univ here with excellent dept of education, but even the 2 yr colleges usually have some sort of child development classes. </p><p></p><p>I would insist on references and a background check though. At the very least google them, check their facebook/twitter/vine/whatever and pay the $5 or so for a public records check. You can check for sex offenders online for free, but for a fairly low sum, many online search services will check all sorts of other databases too. Be aware that you can be on the sex offender database for many things, some awful and some relatively minor. A kid I went to high school with ended up on the list for skinny dipping in his backyard in the middle of the night. </p><p></p><p>If you cannot find a college kid, you might then look at the high school kids for a day or three a week to give you a break.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 633091, member: 1233"] After-school care was always soo hard for us. By that time my kids were usually on overload and that is tough to handle, esp for difficult child and for thank you (his sensory issues made it really hard). We never really found a solution other than having a parent (me) handle things rather than sending the kids to a program. One thing I know some parents here do is to contact the local university dept of education or of child development and ask for recommendations of students who would be willing to handle the after-school care. If they have classes about Special Education, esp if some of the classes address the specific issues/diagnosis's that your kids have, this can be a win for the family and the student because the student gets real experience that is invaluable. There are almost always more students in the univ than openings for teachers in the daycare/after-school programs, so this is a great way to get hands-on experience. You can either ask the dept secretary or the professors for recommendations. You can even put up flyers on bulletin boards in some schools. We have a 4 yr univ here with excellent dept of education, but even the 2 yr colleges usually have some sort of child development classes. I would insist on references and a background check though. At the very least google them, check their facebook/twitter/vine/whatever and pay the $5 or so for a public records check. You can check for sex offenders online for free, but for a fairly low sum, many online search services will check all sorts of other databases too. Be aware that you can be on the sex offender database for many things, some awful and some relatively minor. A kid I went to high school with ended up on the list for skinny dipping in his backyard in the middle of the night. If you cannot find a college kid, you might then look at the high school kids for a day or three a week to give you a break. [/QUOTE]
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