1. Terri MacDonald and Kate Nelson Symphorose Renzaho Zainab Dalib Jodi Larson – Farrow

2.  The NIÑO Project is a program of Mountain States group META program  META - Micro Enterprise Training and Assistance  META provides start up business loans to underserved entrepreneurs  META provides one on one counseling, Workshops and Affordable business plan training  The NIÑO Project is a grant project. There are no loans involved.

3.  Assist refugees in becoming self-sufficient  Increase home-based child care options for refugee families  Promote Quality Child Care for refugee families

4.  Must still be a refugee.  Must live on ground floor of apartment  Must have landlord permission.  Must meet all requirements of State, City and NIÑO Project requirements.

5.  Providers must have signed landlord approval  Must meet all Child Care licensing requirements  Must have current CPR and First Aid certificates  Participate in 10 hours business startup class  Participate in 4 hours child related classes  Commit to 14 hours of training a year  Meet all ICCP requirements

6.  Money for child care licensing requirements and equipment  Technical Assistance  Interpreter Assistance  Family child care business classes  Child care related classes  Home visits  Information for Idaho Child Care Program requirements

8. 61 participants enrolled and went through the NIÑO Project training. 37 participants were fully licensed by the City of Boise or the State of Idaho 128 slots were opened for families based on 4 openings per child care 46 parents were enrolled in the facilities opened in the end of the 2013 project year

10. 84 children were enrolled in these facilities at the end of the 2013 project year At the end of the project, 32 refugees remained fully licensed child care providers At the end of the project, 32 NIÑO providers were receiving over $26,000 in child care subsidies each month.

12.  Apartment Complex permission  Navigating the Idaho Child Care Program ( ICCP)  Transportation Issues  Expectations of child care  Filling child care homes to capacity

13.  Ethnic Somali  Somali – Bantu  Rwandan  Congolese  Burmese  Burundi  Togo  Iraq

14.  Central District Health  Boise City  Idaho AEYC  Agency for New Americans  International Rescue Committee  World Relief  Idaho Office for Refugees  IdahoSTARS  Health and Welfare  St. Alphonso's Hospital  CPR Lifesaver  And more

16.  Arrived in the US in 2008  Spent year in a refugee camp in Thailand  Now has 3 children enrolled in child care which includes her grandchild  Active and engaged in NIÑO on – going classes  Tu Tu’s English has improved dramatically since she enrolled in the NIÑO Project

18.  Ali arrived with his family in March of 2009  Spent most of his life in a Kenyan refugee camp  Became NIÑO’s first licensed child care provider on February 14 th, 2012  Ali cares for his sister’s 5 children  Ali attends NIÑO and CWI classes

20.  Add 12 New providers per year  Re-enroll 10 providers per year  6 to 8 participants will be enrolled in the NIÑO Project’s Professional Development Program  Provide on going home visits and technical assistance to all providers enrolled  Provide on going child care related classes for Boise City Credit.

21.  Currently, there are 6 new child care providers enrolled in the NIÑO Project as of December 2013.  20 providers have re-enrolled in the project  5 providers are now licensed by Boise City  3 providers have enrolled children in care  And, finally, the Professional Development Program has 6 participants.