Finding an in-home child care provider

Stasi

I have a co-worker who wants to remove her child from the day care center he's currently going to and look for someone to watch her son either in her house, or take him to a care providers house.

She's really nervous about leaving him with a stranger and doesn't have any family or friends in her area to give her recommedations. She also doesn't attend a church so that's out.

What are some reliable resources or services that help match a person to a babysitter? Are there online resources?

TIA!

LEJB1985

We found our in-home through the state's department of social services.  It was very important to me to still have licensed care even if it wasn't center based, so I pulled the list of licensed in homes and called and visited them until I found one t

northtamarack

Our county has a list of day-care providers.  Like the pp, this list only includes those daycares that are licensed.  

GL to your friend! 

ahollo02

We use an at home daycare (not licensed) and have had a great experience so far. But you are more on their terms as far as days and hours go. I have gotten a call in the morning saying our sitter was sick and then had to scramble to find someone day of. A

Manda-Kay

I'm doing the same thing and use care.com.

Bredins wife

I think Care.com is great. They background check the providers, monitor email exchanges, and you can see if they are licensed or not right on the site. There is a small monthly fee if you want to contact a nanny, but I believe you can contact an in-hom

st.augbride

We found ours through a list of licensed providers through our county.

ashcody2

We actually found ours on Craigslist--I put an ad up stating exactly what I was looking for and got 5 respones the same day. At first I was a little sketchy about it, but figured I'd give it a shot. We went and met with her and it turned out she had 20