Black and Brown communities have historically relied on home-based child care as a form of community cultural wealth and resilience even though this work has been consistently undervalued due to systemic inequities. Recognizing the strengths of providers and caregivers and investing in culturally rooted solutions can help shift the power in decision-making and help strengthen and support home-based child care.
Cuando Nayeli1 se mudó a los Estados Unidos desde su ciudad natal en México, ya tenía más de una década de experiencia cuidando niños. Como hija mayor, se esperaba que ayudara a cuidar a sus hermanos menores. Lo que comenzó como un deber se convirtió en vocación amada. Al inmigrar a los EE. UU., Nayeli
The new presidential administration has begun making sweeping changes to immigration policies that will have a detrimental impact on immigrant families and their young children. In this blog post, we share some ways advocates can help immigrant families and colleagues.
Family child care providers have a unique ability to celebrate special holidays for the children they care for throughout the year. For Lunar New Year 2025, we spotlighted some of the celebrations happening in HBCC around the country.
At Home Grown, our work and focus are unchanged in 2025: We are working for a future where all children thrive and where the adults closest to our children, namely their parents and care providers, are valued and supported. Learn more about how we plan to persist in our mission.
Home-based child care provider Danithza Baker shares how navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Helene is shaping her hopes for the new year.
Home-based child care providers share how they rest and care for themselves during the often busy and demanding holiday season.
Family child care providers value licensing systems because of how these systems provide accountability and incentivize quality care. In this blog, FCC providers share why they value and respect licensing systems and how that respect can be reciprocated through better representation of providers in those systems.
Licensing is critical infrastructure in the child care system: Through licensing, family child care providers are publicly recognized as child care professionals. In recognition of the important impact of state licensing policy and practice on family child care, Home Grown brought together its first-ever Family Child Care Licensing Work Group. The Work Group consisted of
Emergency funding is deeply ingrained in the work of Home Grown. Home Grown has developed a national team of organizations and partners to design and set up of the Home Grown Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund for Severe Weather & National Disaster Response.
