4) Look at the Needs of Your CommunityWhen I worked at a center as a program administrator, it was part of my job description to help increase our enrollment, and I was pretty good at it. One center that I was the Assistant Director at had six classrooms and four of them were preschool aged. We were at about 70% of our capacity. One day while talking to the VP of our corporation, I mentioned that if we turned one of the preschool rooms into a toddler room, I thought it would increase our enrollment. I knew that we received lots of calls for that age group, and there were several children on the wait list for those ages. She decided to go along with my idea, and we re-licensed one of our preschool rooms as a toddler room.The decision paid off, and that toddler room filled up in record speed. Then that led to higher preschool enrollment as they moved out of the toddler room into the preschool room. It wasn’t a simple process because we had to have licensing come out, and that involved extra costs and some preparation and work. However, sometimes a program has to change or invest in a change to meet the growing needs of the community. In our case it paid off big time as our enrollment jumped at that point and continued to grow.