Building Belonging: Valuing Family Child Care via State Licensing Systems
Home Grown’s Family Child Care Licensing Work Group Recommendations 2024
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 family child care professionals who convened regularly to develop Home Grown’s understanding of state licensing for family child care and develop recommendations for these systems. This report represents their work.
Videos — Voices from the Field
In the videos below, members of the Family Child Care Licensing Work Group lift up provider perspectives and share their experiences with the licensing topics in the recommendation guide. These “voices from the field” give the perspectives of providers from different states and regions to provide context to the recommendations included in the guide.
Quick Guides for State Administrators
These easy-to-read guides provide an overview of the key themes in the licensing recommendations report.
The Four C’s of Family Child Care Licensing Standards: Consistency, Clarity, Communication, and Convening Systems
When state licensing systems invest in the four C’s: clarity, consistency, communication, and convening, providers feel validated as experts and valued and recognized as professionals when licensed. In this publication, we share more insight, directly from our Work Group, about what this might look like in practice.
A State’s Guide to Approaching Licensing Support for Family Child Care
The Family Child Care Licensing Work Group identified multiple ways states can support family child care providers in receiving or maintaining their license. This guide highlights three ways states can support FCC providers.