Black Family Child Care Educators are foundational to early childhood systems, serving as cultural bearers, pedagogical leaders, and trusted community anchors for children and families. Yet despite their indispensable contributions, Black FCC educators continue to navigate systemic inequities—rooted in racialized and gendered histories of carework—that undermine their well‐being and threaten the long‐term sustainability of home‐based care.
This white paper, Care as Culture, Culture as Resistance: The Black Family Child Care Educator Well‐Being Project, emerges from a study rooted in the lived experiences of Black family child care educators, who shared their stories through surveys, community talks, and peer exchanges. The paper was made possible through the support of the Boston University Center for Early Childhood Well-Being and Development Fellowship, the UNC Chapel Hill Equity Coalition’s RISER (Researchers Investigating Sociocultural Equity & Race) Seed Grant, and partners at Home Grown.
