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Provider Resource Guide
Provider Resource Guide
Child Care Providers need access to a lot of different resources. Use this page to help you navigate services in your community to help support your child care program. Here you can find care and education resources, shared services, business supports, or connection with other early childhood professionals.
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Resources from Raise Montana
Raise Montana offers a number of resources to advance the early childhood profession, and improve the quality, affordability, and accessibility of child care.
- Shared Services: Raise offers supports and services that strengthen sustainable businesses practices. These include the free services listed below, and discounted services like telehealth, substitute services, and payroll.
- Resource Library: resources and tools to help you operate your program
- ECE-Friendly Businesses: find a directory of businesses that are committed to supporting child care programs.
- Montana Early Care & Education Job Board: recruit talented staff, or search for employment in the early care and education field.
- Communities of Practice: Connect with other early childhood professionals to collaborate and address common challenges and needs.
- Professional Development: Find training opportunities, and education to advance your career.
Zero to Five Montana is offering a program to support licensed and registered child care businesses in Montana. You can find resources including business training, mentorships consultation, funding, and more! This program is built to help you implement sustainable business practices to help your program succeed. Montana Child Care Business Connect is the statewide hub for child care business development and innovation.
Business Supports
Accounting & Tax Specialists
Accounting & Tax Specialists
We are a local family-owned tax, accounting, payroll, and bookkeeping office with over 75 years of cumulative experience. We enjoy working with all types of businesses & families. Located in Helena, MT. PH: (406) 449-2065
Pinion- Formerly Anderson Zurmuehlen
From day to day accounting needs to complex business challenges and opportunities, the dedicated professionals at Pinion are ready to bring their knowledge and experience to the table to help you achieve your goals. Located in Bozeman and Helena, MT. PH: (406) 442-1040
Barron Van H CPA
Located in Helena, MT, Van H. Barron Accounting offers tax preparation for individuals and businesses, bookkeeping, and payroll services. PH: (406) 442-9443
Gallatin Valley Tax Services
These local tax specialists offer their expertise with tax returns, bookkeeping and payroll services, quarterly reporting, and auditing of company books and tax planning. Located in Bozeman, Montana. PH: (406) 587-2525
Hubley Phillips & Williams
Hubley Phillips and Williams offer tax and business services in Bozeman, MT. PH: (406) 585-4638
Neil and Company CPAs PC
Neil and Company CPAs P.C. is a local Bozeman accounting firm that provides a broad range of services. Included in these services are: tax planning and preparation, accounting services such as financial statement preparation and bookkeeping, business consulting, technology consulting, and retirement plan consulting. PH: (406) 587-9239
Rudd and Co.
Rudd & Co offers tax and business services including tax preparation, small business accounting, and payroll services across Montana and Idaho. They have locations in Helena, and Bozeman. PH: Helena, MT- (406) 449-1299 Bozeman, MT (406) 585-3393
Selah’s Office Solutions LLC
Locally owned and operated business in Townsend, MT providing tax preparation and full business support services. PH: (406) 266-3982
Fire & Liability Insurance
Tom Copeland Insurance Directory
Find a directory of companies and agents that offer a variety of insurance policies to family child care providers.
Bison Insurance, PLLC
Locally owned and operated independent insurance agency in Helena, Montana. PH: (406) 442-1414
First West Insurance
Staff will take the time to learn your business and help to assess your insurance needs. We enjoy explaining coverage and how we can help protect what is important to you so your business can grow and succeed. Located in Bozeman, MT- (406) 587-5111
Gallatin Insurance
Gallatin Insurance offers affordable insurance that will fit your unique needs. Located in Bozeman and Belgrade, MT
HUB International Insurance
Offers a variety of coverage options including home-auto-business-life and health. HUB International has locations in Bozeman and Helena, MT.
Insurance Unlimited- Bozeman
Insurance Unlimited is an insurance company in Montana offering auto insurance, homeowner, life, business, work comp, and other coverage. Located in Bozeman, MT- (406) 586-1818
Liberty Mutual Insurance
At Liberty Mutual Insurance, we take the time to understand your unique needs — because the better we understand your business, the better we can protect it.
Continuing Education
Montana Early Childhood Project
Montana’s platform for continuing education for Early Childhood Professionals. The Early Childhood Project oversees Montana’s practitioner registry, statewide training calendar, and pathways to improve quality programming in child care throughout the state.
ChildCareTraining.org
Montana’s early childhood distance learning. Offers career development through a catalog of courses in all knowledge-base domains, courses required by Child Care Licensing, and courses that are a part of Montana’s STARS to Quality System.
PEO Program for Continuing Education
A need-based grant program providing one-time financial assistance to women whose education has been interrupted and who find it necessary to return to school to complete a degree or certification that improves their marketable skills for employment to support themselves and/or their families.
Online application through local chapter: click HERE
Health & Safety
CPR & First aid training
Alert CPR
Aquatic & Land Emergency Response Training Inc. (A.L.E.R.T. Inc.) offers courses in Helena, MT. PH: (208) 664-0839
Big Horn Fire Academy
CPR courses can be taught at your location or at Big Horn Fire Academy’s facility. (406) 581-0412 or email us at info@bighornfire.com.
Bozeman Health
Bozeman Health offers CPR, AED, and First Aid courses in Bozeman, MT. To find available courses click on the link and choose your desired course in the topics search bar.
Child Care Connections
Child Care Connections offers CPR and First Aid training in Bozeman and Helena to licensed Child Care Providers.
Gallatin Valley YMCA
Follow the link and choose First Aid and Safety to find course dates and registration details.
Helena Family YMCA
The Helena Family YMCA offers CPR and First Aid classes. Call (406) 442-9622 for details.
Jolt CPR
JOLT CPR offers CPR, AED and First Aid courses for both healthcare providers and workplace settings in Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley. PH: (406) 581-4738
St. Peter’s Health
CPR/First Aid courses and skills assessments offered in Helena, MT. To find available courses, search by category and select CPR (American Red Cross)/First Aid.
Fire extinguisher maintenance
Action Fire Extinguisher Service
- Located in Helena, MT
- (406) 439-7010
- Located in Livingston, MT
- PH: (406) 222-6539
A&M Fire and Safety Inc.
- PH: (406) 723-6819
The Fire Guys
- Located in Helena, Montana
- PH: (406) 442-4980
Emergency supply & first aid
American Red Cross First Aid Store
The American Red Cross offers the essentials for emergency and first aid kits. You can order full kits, and restock your existing kit. Refine by category, price, size, and rating to find the kit that best fits your specific needs.
American Red Cross- How to Make a First Aid Kit
Use this guide created by the American Red Cross to prepare your own first aid kit.
Child Care Aware — Guide to Emergency Supply Kits
This guide built by Child Care Aware includes recommendations specifically for child care providers to prepare for short-term and long-term emergencies.
First Aid Supplies Online
Visit this page for The Professional Day Care First Aid Kit for children. This versatile, wall-mountable child care first aid kit was designed in response to many requests from the daycare industry.
Fire alarms & Sprinkler Systems
API-Western States Fire Protection Co.
As a full-service provider, Western States Fire Protection in Bozeman offers comprehensive life safety and fire protection services. Our fire sprinkler & suppression system services include installation and service for: clean agent systems, fire hydrants, standpipes, fire pumps, backflows, extinguishers, and more. PH: (406) 759-5242
Kenco
From commercial to residential applications, Kenco provides the highest quality security, safety, and automation backed by the best customer service. Our state-of-the-art products and services include commercial and residential security systems, fire alarm systems, video, managed access, and test and inspections. Bozeman PH: (406) 586-9150 Helena PH: (406) 245-4946
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