Looking for the best way to configure caregiving in Fellowship One.
Our church provides caregiving for most of our on-site events throughout the week. Each day is unique in that the number of events and children can vary. One day we may use two classrooms to acommodate all the children needing childcare and the next we might use six classrooms. This can also fluctuate between a morning event and an evening event. Most of our children are not pre-registered and we rely on the kiosk to make a best fit assignment.
My questions are:
1. How do you configure your activites, schedules, groups and RLC's? Keep in mind our configuration can change from week to week. Not all Mondays have the same caregiving needs, neither do Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, etc.
2. How do you know what event the parent is attending, assuming there are multiple ministry events happening at the same time?
3. How do you manage caregiving staff and their children? We have regular paid staff and some volunteers. We use a new set of volunteers each week for our MOPS meetings.
3. Do your caregiving attendants have a participant assignment?
4. The costs associated with caregiving are passed back to the ministry requesting the care. If we have 100 kids at one time how could we track the number of kids in attendance by ministry?
5. Our parents still check the child in on a roster after using the kiosk since we are unable to print reports quick enough to provide accurate head counts. This also provides a method of knowing what event the parent is attending.
Thank you in advance for any feedback you may have.