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Action is needed to ensure that family child care remains a strong, healthy component of the early childhood education system. This brief examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information that your state, territory, or tribe can use to solve this problem.
The paper was…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Payment Practices, Quality Improvement, Cost of Quality for Providers, Program Quality Standards, Family Child Care, Outreach and Consumer Education, Provider and Quality Information
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This brief provides research-based information to support state agency staff as they design and implement consumer education websites and other resources, such as quality rating and improvement systems. Consumer education efforts are undergoing revisions in response to provisions in the Child Care…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Informing Child Care Consumers, Consumer Education Website, Family Friendly Outreach, Provider Information, Quality Improvement, Outreach and Consumer Education, Provider and Quality Information
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance partnered with Tom Copeland to provide essential family child care resources for improving business practices.
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), Stabilization Grants, Management Practices, Family Child Care, Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
During a public health emergency, families’ and providers’ ability to successfully transition to emergency child care when necessary is crucial. This resource provides a list of tips and considerations for transitioning to using or providing emergency child care.
Resource Type: Fact Sheet
Topic/Subtopic: Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Informing Child Care Consumers, Consumer Education Website, Family Friendly Outreach, Provider Information, Supports and Services for Families
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
In this webinar, the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance is joined by partner, All Our Kin, and Toni Porter, in a panel discussion on the importance of staffed family child care networks. The Staffed Family Child Care Network webinar was prerecorded.
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Resource Type: Video
Topic/Subtopic: Quality Improvement, Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
What are staffed family child care networks and what do they do? Why are staffed family networks important? This infographic answers these questions and more.This guide is available in English and en Español.
Resource Type: Fact Sheet
Topic/Subtopic: Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This brief describes licensing requirements for family child care homes in 2020 and identifies trends from previous years of data collection. The data in this brief were collected from state child care licensing regulations by the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance from…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Health and Safety Requirements and Standards, Building and Facility Requirements, Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting, Child-Staff Ratios and Group Sizes, Family/Group Child Care Home Requirements, Infant/Toddler Care Requirements, Licensing Exemptions, Provider/Staff Requirements and Qualifications, Requirements for the Care of Children, School-Age/Out-of-School Time Requirements
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This second webinar in the Strengthening Family Child Care series explored possible reasons behind the decrease in family child care (FCC) providers, and strategies that states and territories can use to address challenges with the availability of FCC providers.
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Supply Building Strategies
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This brief is a resource for local, regional, and state stakeholders invested in engaging family child care (FCC) and family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) providers in quality improvement initiatives and supporting this sector of the early childhood professional community.
This paper discusses…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: Quality Improvement, Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 requires Lead Agencies to develop state and territory child care disaster plans. These plans must demonstrate how each state and territory will address the needs of children—including the need for safe child care—before, during, and…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Development of State EPR Plans, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness, Preparedness, Recovery, Response
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center