Attend training courses. Applicants for a license home day care centers in New Jersey are required to complete eight hours of training pre-service. Topics covered in these courses include child development, nutrition, communication with parents, safety, first aid, discipline, emergency procedures and other topics relevant to child care providers. Contact your county resources for child care and guidance office to find out when and where training classes are offered in your area.

Prepare your home. The child-proof your home by installing safety measures around your house like electrical outlets and baby gates on stairs. Buy supplies such as cribs, playpens, toys and furniture for children.

Create governing documents. Write policies that govern your childcare based in New Jersey. Include information about how you will communicate with parents, children discipline and maintain records. Note that these issues will be submitted to your State control. Set up hours of your work and child care as a sample menu of meals and snacks you serve the children in your care.

Applying for a license. Submit the license application to resources in your county child care and guidance office and two character references and license fees of $ 25. Provide evidence of your own good health through a medical examination and negative TB skin test. The state of New Jersey also requires applicants for a license home day care centers to complete a consent form for the state to conduct a background check, related to abuse or neglect, a person living in your home over 14 years.

Pass inspection. Arrange a time to have your home inspected for your home day care by a representative of your child care resource and county guidance office. The inspection covers safety and the environment of your childcare, but also the discipline procedures, nutrition and record keeping system that you plan to use.