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Tomando medidas para apoyar a las familias inmigrantes y a los proveedores y cuidadores de HBCC
Roots and Offshoots: Family Child Care Programs Celebrate Lunar New Year
Equity (language, culture, race), Family Child Care (FCC)
What’s ahead for Home Grown in 2025?
Family Child Care (FCC), Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN), Provider Resources, Provider Well-Being
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), State Resources
Family child care providers value licensing systems because of how these systems provide accountability and incentivize quaity care, while recognizing them as child care professionals. What providers want is simple — inclusion and representation in the decision-making bodies that regulate their work. 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. Read the blog post here.
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
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.
Expanding Access to the Federal Child and Adult Care Food Program for Immigrant Family, Friend and Neighbor Care Providers in Colorado
CACFP & Hunger, Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN), Federal Resources
This report explores the unique role and challenges faced by immigrant Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) caregivers in Colorado, who provide essential child care for over half of the state’s children under age five. Despite their importance, these caregivers face significant obstacles in accessing federal support through the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), which reimburses child care providers for nutritious meals served to children. Many immigrant FFN caregivers, who are often license-exempt and care for children informally, face barriers to CACFP access, including fears of deportation, bureaucratic complexity, and language barriers.
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.
Student Loan Debt is a Critical Factor in the Early Educator Compensation Crisis
Family Child Care (FCC), Finances, Sustainability & Compensation, Pre-K
Home-based providers earn the lowest wages in the child care system, with many making just $10,000 per year, while continuing to serve underserved families. Despite their essential role, 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.