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The Office of Child Care’s (OCC) National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance, in partnership with Tom Copeland, the Nation’s leading expert on the business of child care, held a national webinar, How Family Child Care Providers Can Take Advantage of the New Small Business Administration…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Management Practices, Fiscal Management, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness, Recovery
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Child care is important to children and families. Child care after a disaster is a critical part of response and recovery. Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies can do a lot to prepare both the early care and education system in their state, territory, or Tribal service area and…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, Continuing Operations, Development of State EPR Plans, Promoting Children's Development, Preschool Development, Teaching, and Learning, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This brief includes a description of family child care (FCC) networks. It also outlines a well-informed strategy for supporting high-quality family child care:
Addresses the support a staff FCC network can provide
Outlines the essential elements of an effective network
Illustrates the value…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Quality Improvement, Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
A primary goal of the Office of Child Care is to help early childhood programs support children's healthy growth and development. This goal becomes especially important in the event of a major disaster or emergency, as children are among our most vulnerable populations. Child care can be a critical…
Resource Type: General Information
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, Emergency Preparedness
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
The Family Child Care Budget Guide from First Children’s Finance is designed to help family child care providers apply for the Child Care Stabilization Grants. This guide has information on each category in the application with a definition of the category and how to show expenses.
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic: COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), Stabilization Grants
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance, Office Of Child Care, Stabilization Grants Technical Assistance Team
This webinar was recorded on July 21, 2021, and was part of the series, Building Strong Systems of Support for Family Child Care: CCDF Administrator Conversations. This session focused on building staffed family child care networks and shared strategies for beginning or expanding family child care…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Professional Development, Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Family child care (FCC) has many unique qualities that sets it apart from other early care and education settings. A FCC setting offers several benefits to families. Some benefits include a neighborhood-based home environment, smaller groups of children, mixed-age groups so that siblings can be…
Resource Type: General Information
Topic/Subtopic: Family Engagement and Consumer Education
Group: Not Applicable
Staffed Family Child Care (FCC) networks are an important part of the child care solution for families and educators. Successful FCC networks are built on strengths-based relationships and equity and can take many forms. The materials on this page can help you understand the importance of FCC…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This webinar was recorded on September 8, 2021, and was part of the series, Building Strong Systems of Support for Family Child Care: CCDF Administrator Conversations. This session focused on financing supports for family child care and included presentations from the National Center on Early…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Quality Improvement, Provider Supports for Quality Improvement, Professional Development
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This webinar shares perspectives from epidemiology, state human services and health departments, and child care providers about how Rhode Island was able to limit COVID-19 transmission in child care settings. It also explores what is needed to continue to minimize transmission moving forward. The…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: COVID-19, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness, Public Health Emergencies, Response
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center