Supporting HBCC With Tax Policy
Family Child Care (FCC), Finances, Sustainability & Compensation, Policy, Provider Resources
Home Grown Values Sustain Positive Change in the Years Ahead
Family Child Care (FCC), Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN)
Uplifting Community Cultural Wealth in Black Communities
Equity (language, culture, race), Family Child Care (FCC), Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN)
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.
Taking Action to Support Immigrant Families & HBCC Providers and Caregivers
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.
Roots and Offshoots: Family Child Care Programs Celebrate Lunar New YearÂ
Equity (language, culture, race), Family Child Care (FCC)
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.
What’s ahead for Home Grown in 2025?
Family Child Care (FCC), Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN), Provider Resources, Provider Well-Being
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.
Navigating Grief Around Hurricane Helene and Hopes for the New Year
Emergency Response, Provider Resources, Provider Well-Being
Home-based child care provider Danithza Baker shares how navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Helene is shaping her hopes for the new year.
The Gift of Rest and Self-Care This Holiday Season
Family Child Care (FCC), Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN), Provider Well-Being
Home-based child care providers share how they rest and care for themselves during the often busy and demanding holiday season.
What Does Recognition and Respect for Family Child Care Providers Really Mean?
Family Child Care (FCC), Resource Page, State Resources
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.
Promising Practices for High-Quality Home-Based Child Care Networks: Family, Friend, and Neighbor Providers’ Recommendations
Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN), Networks, Publication, Research & Evaluation
In many states, family, friend and neighbor caregivers are exempt from licensing regulations and operate outside of publicly funded payment systems. The recommendations presented here emerged from focus groups conducted to learn how networks are responsive to the strengths and needs of the FFN sector.
Responding to Crisis: Cash Aid in Times of Disaster
Emergency Response, Family Child Care (FCC), Provider Well-Being
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.