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Early Childhood Education for Centers and Programs
Procare Solutions is the No. 1 name in child care management software used by more than 37,000 child care businesses and ECE programs across the country. Our mission is to ease the burdens you face ā the demands of running a business, coordinating staff, educating children, communicating with parents and maintaining flawless security and compliance.āÆ
With Procare, you can plan weekly lessons, manage curriculum, and assess childrenās developmental progress.āÆ Our child care management solution for ECEs helps reduce the administrative burdens of running a center or program.
End-to-End Capabilities
Procare supports early childhood learning by providing the ability to plan weekly lessons, manage curriculum, track milestones, customize and share assessments and assess a childās development progress. Procare also aligns with state standards and Montessori standards.
Our Procare solution for early childhood education includes the following capabilities:
Classroom Management
- Lesson plans
- Assessments
- Room management
- Capacity planning
- Programs
- Staff-to-child ratios
- Track milestones
- Embedded curriculum*
Financial Management
- Tracking expenses
- Automated billing
- Receivables
- Bank reconciliation
- Managing subsidies
- Payroll
- Online and mobile payments
Managing Staff
- Scheduling
- Timecards
- Managing staff-to-child ratios
- Attendance
- Paychecks
Managing Documents
- Family Data
- Immunizations
- Allergy recordsāÆ
- Incident reportsāÆ
- EventsāÆ
- eDocuments
Attendance Tracking
- Contactless check-in/check-out
- Health records
- Authorized pick-ups
- Meal planning
- Room management
Growing Enrollment
- Site visits
- Wait lists
- Targeted communications
- Automated enrollment
- Lead management
Family Registration
- New family registration
- Online registration
- Importing family data
- Registration payments
Business Planning & Reporting
- Subsidy reporting
- USDA Food Program
- Future enrollment
- Profitability
Family Engagement
- Newsletters
- Family messaging
- Text messaging (limit 400/month)
- Activity sharing
- Child care mobile app
Multi-Center Management
- Consolidated reporting
- Customized dashboards
- Corporate reports
- Revenue analysis
- Center performance
- Audit trail
- User groups and privileges
- Payroll integration
Support
- Dedicated account manager
- Support center with videos, articles and help guides
- Live chat
*Procare Early Learning in partnership with Learning Beyond Paper is an optional add-on. Learn more.
Early Learning Standards Available Through Procare
The Vine Assessments System by Procare Solutions
The Vine Assessments System by Procare Solutions is an exclusive assessments framework that simplifies wording and provides age-appropriate assessments utilized by early educators for the purpose of preparing developmental checklists on children from birth to kindergarten-entry for parent-teacher conferences. The Vine Assessments are aligned with state standards for all 50 states while being easier to use and offering a more granular breakdown on developmental milestones that parents can understand. This release of the Vine Assessments represents the latest updates including developmental continuums with 21 Goals that apply to all ages included herein. The Vine Assessments are intended for use within the digital Procare platform, including the Procare child care mobile app, which allows early childhood staff to post observations with photos/videos as evidentiary links to student goals.
State Early Learning Standards
Staying aligned with early learning frameworks is easy through Procareās pre-loaded standards for all 50 states. Procare sources the most up-to-date standards by state to ensure you can leverage accurate and timely resources. ECEs can apply state early learning standards to lesson plans to ensure each domain that is covered in the classroom can be recorded as observations, enabling early learning providers to track specific events that contribute to a childās development against a standard. Compile reports on each studentās development to easily see their progress and share with parents. Have proprietary learning standards that arenāt included in your stateās guidelines? Use Procareās customizable learning frameworks to input your domains, sub-domains and milestones ā all of which can be assigned to ages or categories.
Early Learning Montessori Standards
Staying aligned with early learning frameworks is easy through Procareās pre-loaded Montessori standards. Procare has pre-loaded the Montessori standards which focuses on all areas of child development ā cognitive, emotional, social and physical. To learn more about Montessori standards, visit the Montessori Foundation.
ECEs that adopt the Montessori standard can utilize integrated lesson plans to ensure each domain that is covered in the classroom can be recorded as observations, enabling early learning providers to track specific events that contribute to a childās development against a standard. Compile reports on each studentās development to easily see their progress and share with parents. Procare enables the ability to include proprietary learning standards as well.
Why Procare
Proven in Child Care
For over 30 years, early childhood education providers have looked to Procare to provide real-time information for making critical decisions, maintaining compliance with local and state regulations and adhering to business best practices.āÆ
End-to-End Capabilities
Procare saves you time and money by streamlining core administrative functions while raising the bar for the parent experience with professional communications, easy-to-access portals and the opportunity for real-time updates. Procare can be configured to meet every need, especially for those centers focused on early learning standards. We even make it easy to connect to other specialty systems such as payroll to make Procare the one-stop hub for everything you need to successfully run your center.
Equipped for Any Center
Priced and sized right, Procare meets all your single center needs at an affordable price. We handle the business administration so your early learning center can focus on what matters most ā better outcomes for the children in their care.āÆNo contracts, no set-up fees, no per-child charges ā just one price for all the capabilities needed to run an early learning education business.
Designed Specifically for Child Care Professionals
Procare understands the importance of your role in managing an early learning center. Tracking child attendance, having easy access to family information, handling schedules, keeping records, communicating with parents, billing and processing payments are administrative tasks that we do for you so you can spend more time with the children in your care.
ZERO
contracts, set-up fees, per-child charges and more!
2M+
child care mobile app downloads
Over 70%
of North America’s largest for-profit child care organizations use Procare
37,000+
centers and schools trust Procare
How Does Procare Compare?
With over 30 years serving child care businesses, Procare stands out in the child care management software field.
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