Including Family Child Care in Pre-K Resources
Home Grown believes that family child care providers who provide pre-K education are vital contributors to the educational system, especially in under-served communities, and that more providers should have the opportunity to access public pre-K funding to further nurture and teach the children in their care.
We are excited to partner with NIEER and Erikson Institute to bring meaningful policy and practice tools to the field to pave the way for more inclusion of FCC in pre-K. While these groups bring different perspectives and engage different audiences, they each offer important contributions to support the many system leaders who will be necessary to make bold change to achieve an inclusive and equitable system. Each team, though working on separate projects, collaborates with Home Grown to reflect these guiding principles and center provider voice and input from the field in their work.
Pre-K in Family Child Care (PKFCC) Team Resources
The Erikson Institute, University of Delaware and Equity Research Action Coalition created the Pre-K in Family Child Care Project (PKFCC) to examine strategies for implementation of public pre-kindergarten (pre-K) in family child care (FCC) settings across states and localities in the U.S.
These documents represent the culmination of the Pre-K in FCC project. These and all of the PKFCC products will remain available on the project website.
Resources:
- Brief: Delivering Publicly Funded PreK in Family Child Care: Perspectives From Educators Across the United States (English)
- Brief: Impartir educación preescolar financiada con fondos públicos en el cuidado infantil familiar: perspectivas de educadores en de todo Estados Unidos (Spanish)
- Case studies: Implementing PreK in Family Child Care: Case Studies of Three Public PreK System Approaches
- Full technical report: PreK in Family Child Care (PKFCC) Project Educator Survey: Full Technical Report
Erikson Institute
The Erikson Institute has developed resources to help guide the inclusion of family child care in pre-K settings to ensure it is equitable and inclusive for early learners and family child care providers. These resources include conceptual frameworks, compensation approaches, and more.
View these resources here:
- A Transformative Vision for the Authentic Inclusion of Family Child Care in Mixed-Delivery Pre-K Systems Brief
- Strategies Toward the Equitable Implementation of Pre-K in Family Child Care: Qualifications and Compensation Qualifications and Compensation Brief
- Strategies Toward the Equitable Implementation of Pre-K in Family Child Care: Curriculum, Assessment, Developmental Screening, and Monitoring Brief
- Delivering Publicly Funded Pre-K in Family Child Care: Perspectives From Educators Across the United States
NIEER Resources
Over the past several years, NIEER has been developing and sharing resources that detail the reasons and ways public pre-K systems can incorporate family child care programs, thereby better supporting early learners.
Explore some of those resources here:
- Including Family Child Care (FCC) Programs in Publicly-Funded Pre-K: Conditions for Success
- Including Family Child Care in State-funded Pre-K Systems: An Update
- Including Family Child Care in Pre-K Systems: An Update at the Local Level
- Including Family Child Care Homes in Publicly-Funded Pre-K Programs: Estimating the Cost of Supporting Quality
Enriching Public Pre-K Through Inclusion of Family Child Care (EPIC FCC) initiative
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. Home Grown is committed to ensuring that home-based child care providers can fully participate in well-resourced early childhood initiatives, including pre-K. To do this, we recognize that systems need to look and behave differently to appropriately include home-based child care providers and the families they serve.
We invite you to view the following resources to learn more.
Interest form
Additional Reading and Resources
Below are publications, briefs and blog posts related to pre-K in family child care.
Home Grown blog post: Hidden Treasures: Celebrating and Supporting Family Child Care in Pre-K Systems