Preliminary Data from Home Grown Emergency Fund Communities

Severe climate and weather disasters in the U.S. have become more frequent. For home-based child care providers, these disasters not only affect the health and well-being of those impacted, but they also disrupt the livelihoods of HBCC providers and caregivers whose businesses are run from their homes.

When the devastating LA fires displaced families and child care providers, Home Grown and local partners moved quickly to provide emergency cash aid.

Stephen Cutty, a home-based child care provider in California, is one of a small number of male child care providers. He calls running his business "the greatest experience of [his] life."