Materials for organizing and replicating a 10-week training program for improving the skills of family day care providers are offered in this manual. The training program consists of discussion and workshop sessions and a concurrent onsite internship experience for trainees. In the first section, guides for setting up the course of instruction are presented. Several topics such as the following are briefly discussed: trainee recruitment and retention, credit versus non-credit status of the course, establishing an advisory committee, and objectives for trainees. Lesson plans for class and workshop sessions are outlined in the second section. Related materials, including an application form, pretests and posttests, and a certification of completion, are appended. (RH)