The holidays are a time when many people gather around meals to celebrate the season. Home-based child care providers dish up an extra helping of love with celebratory treats and traditions.
Celebrating three years as an organization, we share highlights of the organization’s model for innovation and replication that has positively impacted child care across the nation.
Home Grown Community Outreach Manager Jennifer Newball is a product of FFN care and that’s part of what drives her passion for advocating for home-based child care providers.
The Home Grown Thriving Providers Project, which hopes to inform early childhood policy reforms at both the local and national level through monthly cash payments, is getting national attention for its work.
Learn more about the U.S. DHHS’s Administration for Children and Families’ September 2022 Notices of Funding Opportunities and how they will affect the home-based child care sector.
As one in three child care providers report experiencing hunger, The Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act is the latest version of the Child Nutrition Act legislation. Learn more about the details of the policy.
Crystal Jackson, a member of Home Grown’s Building Comprehensive Networks initiative, advocates in Nevada for the voices of home-based child care providers.
Learn more about the White House Student Loan Forgiveness plan’s potential to impact early childhood workers.
Nearly 20% of home-based child care providers carry student loan debt, but they were excluded from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Wendy Maldonado, FFN provider and advocate, shares why she remains an FFN provider despite the systemic barriers she faces.
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