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.
The Family Child Care Workforce Fact Sheet highlights the importance of family child care (FCC) as a vital part of the early childhood care system.
Los proveedores de cuidado infantil a domicilio ganan los salarios más bajos del sistema y, a menudo, quedan excluidos de las discusiones sobre políticas y los programas de condonación de préstamos, lo que contribuye a la continua presión financiera. Esta nueva hoja informativa arroja luz sobre los desafíos salariales de los proveedores de cuidado infantil familiar.
Home-based providers earn the lowest wages in the child care system and they are often left out of policy discussions and loan forgiveness programs, contributing to ongoing financial strain. This new fact sheet sheds light on the earning challenges for family child care providers.
In the U.S., immigrant stories can start differently but eventually resemble each other. In this blog post, we follow two immigrant FCC providers who come from different nations, but who both discovered that their destiny was inevitably tied to the success of child care in their communities.
Home Grown celebra el nuevo informe del Consejo de Asesores Económicos, “El cuidado infantil es infraestructura: evidencia del preescolar universal”. Nos entusiasma colaborar con NIEER este otoño para apoyar a un grupo de sistemas preescolares públicos con asistencia técnica específica y herramientas basadas en la evidencia para adaptar sus sistemas preescolares e incluir el programa FCC.
Home Grown celebrates the new Council of Economic Advisers brief, “Child Care Is Infrastructure: Evidence from Universal Pre-K.” We are excited to be working with NIEER this fall to support a cohort of public pre-K systems with targeted TA and evidence-based tools to modify their pre-K systems to include FCC.
Home Grown presenta la tercera cohorte de líderes proveedores de nuestra iniciativa Liderando desde Casa. Los miembros de esta cohorte representan a proveedores y cuidadores de diversas experiencias, idiomas e identidades.
