Publication – Page 4 – Home Grown Child Care

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Generations of Kids Get Their Smarts and Their Resilience in Home-Based Child Care

This publication highlights how home-based child care supports children through each developmental stage while being an essential support for working families.

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Building Comprehensive Home-Based
Child Care Networks: Evaluation Toolkit

intended to help evaluate Home-based Child Care (HBCC) networks. It includes tools that can be used to collect data to assess an initiative’s progress toward meeting its goals.

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Including Family Child Care in State and
City-funded Pre-K Systems: Opportunities
and Challenges

This report examines the policies and provision of state-funded pre-K in FCCs in these 24 states and in four large cities and follows with a discussion of the potential opportunities and challenges derived from an analysis of current state policies.

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Child Care Development Fund Recommendations

View Home Grown’s supplement on Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) Recommendations, designed to help state leadership leverage CCDF in the short-term for home-based child care providers.

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Supporting and Strengthening FFN Care

Half of all families whose children who are in non-parental care choose and use family, friend and neighbor (FFN) child care, and yet this is the least supported aspect of the child care and early learning sector. Read Home Grown’s recommendations for supporting and strengthening FFN care, providing critical support for children, families and caregivers.

State Recommendations: Scaling Effective Stabilization Funds for HBCC

Home Grown is sharing state recommendations for scaling effective stabilization funds for home-based child care providers. The recommendations are based on the final data from the Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund created in April 2020.

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Responding to COVID-19: HBCC Emergency Fund

In April 2020, Home Grown and its members created the Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) Emergency Fund) with $1.2 million in funding to catalyze the development of regional funds that provide direct financial support to home-based child care (HBCC) providers, including both regulated family child care (FCC) providers and family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers across the nation. This report contains the final data of the findings.

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