Make a difference in children’s futures and in the future of Michigan by becoming a child care entrepreneur or expanding your child care business. Learn more about becoming a child care entrepreneur and how to start or expand your child care business. There are also many community events throughout the year to keep you connected.
A child care center license allows an individual, agency, or corporation to provide care in a commercial space or building for 1 or more children under the age of 13. The children are in care less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or legal guardian and the center operates for more than two consecutive weeks.
A child care family home license allows an individual to provide care or supervision for 1 to 6 unrelated children in a private home (where the licensee permanently resides as a member of the household) for less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or guardian.
A child care group home license allows an individual to provide care or supervision for 7 to 12 unrelated children in a private home (where the licensee permanently resides as a member of the household) for less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or legal guardian. Zoning approval is required for a group child care home.
The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) works with several other groups to provide business support along your licensing journey.
Great Start to Quality offers support to strengthen Michigan’s providers of early care and education so they can continuously improve the services and support they provide young children, their families, and the community.
Mi Tri-Share Child Care has innovative, scalable solutions to child care challenges such as the cost of child care. It aims to make child care affordable in the state of Michigan.
Nurture Benefits is an innovative, grant-funded initiative designed to make high-quality employee benefits accessible and affordable for Michigan’s child care workforce.
