Why We Celebrate FFN Appreciation Week
Ahead of FFN Appreciation Week 2025, a member of the Home Grown staff shares her personal experience with family, friend and neighbor providers and why she’s passionate about supporting them.
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Where the Climate Crisis Meets Child Care: HBCC Provider Experiences Amid Natural Disasters
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.
Partnering for Resilience: Child Care Support Amid LA’s Flames
When the devastating LA fires displaced families and child care providers, Home Grown and local partners moved quickly to provide emergency cash aid.
Every Day Is Father’s Day at Carleigh’s Place Child Care
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.”
Reflecting on Family Child Care Awareness Day 2025
Philadelphia-based FCC provider Adrienne Briggs reflects on the success of the 2025 Family Child Care Awareness Day in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and shares why it is important for FCC providers to come together and advocate for what they need.
The Case for Home-Based: Why States Should Consider Inclusion of Family Child Care Homes in Mixed Delivery Pre-K Systems
Family child care (FCC) is often a first choice for families who prefer to keep their children in mixed-aged groups together in one setting. Many states, however, do not include FCCs in their mixed-delivery system which eliminates this option for most parents. This blog post examines why states should consider including FCC in mixed-delivery pre-K systems.
Healthy-Me Practices for Mental Wellness
Mental health is especially challenging and important during times of great uncertainty. In this blog post, home-based providers and caregivers share their healthy practices toward positive mental wellness.
Parents Champion Home-Based Child Care
Parents and advocates join with home-based providers on A Day Without Child Care to amplify how important supportive child care policy reform is for the workforce and communities.
Improving Child Care Licensing By Listening and Partnering with Family Child Care Providers
Child care licensing is important to the field and the current licensing systems require changes to better support family child care. This blog explores how listening and partnering with FCC providers could greatly improve licensing systems.
Making Sense of This Moment: How Is Home-Based Child Care Doing 100 Days Into the Trump Administration?
In the first 100 days of the Trump Administration, we saw sweeping changes to many aspects of American policy and many more have been proposed. This blog post lays out key information to support you in making sense of this moment and taking action to protect yourself and your community and to impact the outcome of the proposed actions.