Home Grown cree que para reformar nuestro sistema de cuidado infantil deben existir enfoques de compensación holísticos para los proveedores que incluyan salarios justos, acceso a atención médica, jubilación, asistencia nutricional, apoyo de vivienda, tiempo de licencia pagado, condonación de deudas y otros.
The EPIC FCC initiative seeks to support state, city, county, and tribal government leaders in expanding the participation of family child care (FCC) educators in their pre-K systems or engaging FCC educators in these pre-K systems for the first time. Learn more about this program and apply.
The annual CACFP reimbursement rate increase is insufficient to meet the needs of home-based child care providers. Advocacy for more robust and sustained investment in the CACFP is essential to ensure that providers can offer high-quality care and nutrition.
This family child care recommendation report provides in-depth insight into the challenges providers face in current family child care state licensing systems and recommended solutions to help design system reform using FCC provider perspectives and expertise.
Home Grown is collaborating with partners and child care providers to develop detailed comments about the Child and Adult Care Food Program to the USDA.
Dawn Holden Woods shares some key advice for home-based child care provider leaders working with funders.
The founders of Black Californians United for Early Care and Education (BlackECE) share how they create spaces of inclusion for Black early child care educators.
The serious deficiency process is a tool used to help regulate CACFP but often subjects home-based child care providers unfairly to swift and harsh penalties.
Home-based child care providers have to carry additional insurance for their businesses, but obtaining the coverage is not as straightforward — or affordable — as it could be.
This report includes findings from a national survey of networks about how HBCC networks address the benchmarks and indicators for high-quality.
