Promising Practices for High-Quality Home-Based Child Care Networks: Family, Friend, and Neighbor Providers’ Recommendations

Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) providers are grandmothers, aunts, other close relatives, or parents who care for unrelated children of friends or neighbors in addition to their own. In many states, these providers are exempt from licensing regulations and operate outside of publicly funded payment systems. They may be paid informally by families or not paid at all to offer child care. The recommendations presented here emerged from focus groups Erikson Institute conducted with FFN providers to learn how networks are responsive to the strengths and needs of the FFN sector. The recommendations can help inform FFN providers’ efforts to advocate for network supports that meet their needs.

Promising Practices for High-Quality Home-Based Child Care Networks: Family, Friend, and Neighbor Providers’ Recommendations

Prácticas Prometedoras para las Redes de Cuidado Infantil en el Hogar de Alta Calidad: Recomendaciones de proveedores familiares, amigos y vecinos

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A Love letter and a Wake-Up Call’: Documentary Films About Child Care Warm Hearts and Spark Action

Home Grown takes a look at how documentaries are changing the narrative about child care work and inspiring policy and regulatory reform. This blog takes a look at two new documentaries Make a Circle and At Home/In Home: Rural Alaska Child Care in Crisis.
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Remembering Maritza Manrique

Home Grown remembers Maritza Manrique, a fierce early childhood education advocate, a home-based child care provider and a member of the Home Grown Policy Workgroup.
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Supporting HBCC With Tax Policy

To support home-based child care with tax policy, there are opportunities for organizations to make federal policy asks or for local governments to replicate some existing, successful programs. Read this blog to learn more.