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Family Child Care Workforce Fact Sheet

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.

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Promising Practices for High-Quality HBCC Networks: Supporting Family, Friend, and Neighbor Providers

Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) providers represent the largest non-parental child care sector in the United States, with the numbers of providers and children in these care settings far outnumbering licensed family child care (FCC) or center-based settings. Yet despite the prevalence, little is known about the types of supports and resources that FFN providers

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Building Belonging: Valuing Family Child Care via State Licensing Systems (Full Report)

Home Grown convened a group of FCC providers to gain a deeper understanding of state licensing for family child care and develop recommendations for these systems. This report represents their work.

Home-based Child Care Helps Babies Thrive

Home-based child care is the most common child care arrangement for babies. This care type supports their development and sets them up for futures where they thrive. Home Grown has created this resource to share how home-based child care helps babies thrive.

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Implementación de parámetros de referencia para redes HBCC de alta calidad: hallazgos de una encuesta nacional de redes HBCC

Este informe incluye los resultados de una encuesta nacional de redes sobre cómo las redes HBCC abordan los puntos de referencia e indicadores de alta calidad.

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Implementing Benchmarks for High-Quality HBCC Networks: Findings from a National Survey of HBCC Networks

This report includes findings from a national survey of networks about how HBCC networks address the benchmarks and indicators for high-quality.

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Network Benchmarks and Indicators Resource Collection

Explore this collection of resources on the network benchmarks and indicators, including the framework, national survey results, and focus group findings

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Promising Practices for High-Quality Home-Based Child Care Networks: Focus Group Briefs

This series of briefs draws from multiple focus groups of providers and network leaders to examine values, services, and implementation practices of home-based child care networks.

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Hoja informativa sobre cuidado infantil en el hogar 2023

Consulte nuestra hoja informativa para obtener una introducción sobre quién califica como proveedor de cuidado infantil en el hogar en los EE. UU., los desafíos que enfrentan los proveedores y nuestra visión para garantizar que los proveedores reciban los recursos que necesitan.

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Home Grown’s Response to the Office of Head Start (OHS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) “Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming”

Home Grown is grateful for this opportunity to provide comments in response to the Office of Head Start (OHS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) entitled “Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming.” Our recommendations aim to ensure family child care providers can share in the benefits of the changes proposed by the Administration for the Head Start workforce.

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