Resources
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Resources
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.
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.
Building Comprehensive Networks
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated the need for child care as infrastructure. As families juggled work, job loss, and distance learning, all while taking care of children, we’ve seen something grow in America: the reliance on, respect for, and recognition of home-based child care (HBCC). Yet HBCC remains woefully under-resourced.
Blogs and Articles
Generations of Kids Get Their Smarts and Their Resilience in Home-Based Child Care
Enrolling my children in a home-based childcare program “was the best decision I ever made,” says Lisa, who still gathers with lots of other alums for Benu’s summer barbeque. Benu “is everybody’s mom,” according to Lisa. She’s raised dozens of children, become the surrogate aunt or grandma to their working parents, and is a mentor teacher for other home-based childcare providers in California.
Events
April 7, 2022
Webinar: Federal Policy Updates for HBCC Providers
Join Home Grown to learn about recent federal policy discussions with implications for home-based child care providers.
March 30, 2022
Webinar: Building Comprehensive Networks Information Session, March 30th
On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, from 1:00-2:00 Eastern join Home Grown to learn more about the Building Comprehensive Networks initiative for state and local government partners.
March 16, 2022
Webinar: Building Comprehensive Networks Information Session
Join Home Grown to learn more about the Building Comprehensive Networks initiative for state and local government partners seeking to build comprehensive networks as durable infrastructure for home-based child care providers.