Family Child Care
A phone system for the provider running it all from the living room.
A family child care provider is a director, a teacher, a cook, and a bookkeeper, often all at once and often during nap. The phone rings during snack time. It rings during pickup. It rings while you are changing a diaper. You either ignore it (and lose a family) or you put the kids down for thirty seconds to grab it (and lose your focus). Neither one is sustainable.
Jonson answers your phone in your voice, handles the routine questions live (hours, openings, rates, the basics about your program), and texts you a clean summary so you can call back when nap actually starts. The families who reach you feel like they reached a real person, because functionally they did.
Built for solo operators
No org chart, no second director, no front desk. Setup runs from your phone. You are the entire team. Jonson is built to make that work, not to assume staff you do not have.
Your number stays yours
The parent calls the same number they always call. You do not advertise anything new. They get answered. You get a summary. That is the whole change for them.
Priced for a small program
Family child care runs on tight margins. We are not pretending you are a center. The plan that fits a six-child program looks nothing like the plan that fits a hundred-child center.
Reading for family child care providers
How a family child care provider handles the phone solo
You cannot put the toddler down to answer a call. The realistic options for a one-person program, and the trade-offs of each.
Read on the blogFilling your remaining slots without overselling
A small program lives or dies on a few enrollments. How to capture inquiries, run a calm tour, and not stretch beyond your licensed capacity.
Read on the blogFamily child care licensing, by state
Licensed family child care, registered family child care, group family. What each label means and how it shapes the calls you take.
Read on the blogSubsidy calls, private-pay calls, and the questions in between
CCDBG, state subsidy, private-pay families. The script that handles all three without making any one of them feel like a second-class caller.
Read on the blogArticles are being published on the main blog and will move to dedicated routes as the cluster fills out. The reading list links to operations articles in the meantime.
Talk to us about your program
Tell us how many kids you are licensed for, how full you are, and what hours you run. We reply within one business hour.
What we do not do
- We do not pretend you have a front desk you do not have.
- We do not require a contract longer than a month.
- We do not charge enterprise pricing for a home-based program.
- We do not lock your number to our service.
Who we work with
Licensed family child care providers, registered home-based programs, group family child care homes, and NAFCC-accredited providers. Small programs are the point, not the exception.
Part of our broader daycare phone system coverage.