Starting an Adult Family Home (AFH) is one of the most rewarding ways to build a community-based care business, but the initial administrative and technical hurdle can feel overwhelming. Between navigating state portals, setting up digital identific...

Starting an Adult Family Home can feel exciting in the beginning. You have the vision, you know you want to serve, and you may already be thinking about the home, the residents, the setup, and the licensing process. But once you start looking for he...

Care Home Readiness Scorecard: A Simple Way to Check Your Starting Point Before You Move Forward Opening a care home can feel exciting and overwhelming at the same time. Many new providers begin with a strong vision, but quickly realize there are se...

Opening a care home takes more than completing an application and waiting for approval. Before you submit paperwork or schedule an inspection, there are several areas that should be reviewed carefully. Many new providers do not run into problems bec...

Opening a care home is not something most people enter lightly. By the time you start researching the application process, you may already be thinking about the home, the residents you hope to serve, the paperwork you need, and the inspection that e...

Preparing a care home application can feel overwhelming because the work does not happen in one simple straight line. There are decisions to make, documents to prepare, information to verify, financial details to organize, and inspection-related ite...

Can I let you in on something a lot of new providers may not realize when they first start researching this business? Opening a full 3–4 bed, DHS-licensed Adult Family Home is not the only way to enter the care home space in Wisconsin. If you have b...

When I look back at where I started versus where I am now, the distance between those two points is longer than I ever expected and more honest than most people are willing to admit publicly. I did not come into this process with a plan that was alr...

Opening an Adult Family Home is one of those things that looks simple from the outside until you actually get into the process. Many people who are considering opening an Adult Family Home see the business idea first. They think about the home, the ...

I placed my care home licensing journey in someone else's hands. I paid a consultant. I made the calls. I waited on the emails that sometimes came and sometimes did not. I trusted that someone else's expertise would carry me through a proc...