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Family Child Care HomesNumber of resources found: 13
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National Association for Family Child Care Language: English
Publisher: National Association for Family Child Care
Description: This is the web site for the National Association for Family Child Care. The organization offers accreditation and benefits for members such as a newsletter and national conference.
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General Information
Choosing Child Care: a guide to selecting quality care for your child
Language: English
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Extension (2000)
Description: This brochure helps parents to think through what type of child care will best fit their needs. It asks questions of the parents, the providers, the centers, and gives information on what to look for in each setting. Also available in html at http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/ChildCareGuide.html.
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KITH and KIN - Informal Child Care: Highlights from Recent Research Language: English
Author: Brown-Lyons, Melanie
Publisher: National Center for Children in Poverty (2001)
Description: The purpose of this document is to summarize what the available research tells
us about informal child care, and to identify significant gaps in knowledge.
Published articles and reviews, research reports, and other literature were examined to provide answers to questions regarding this type of child care.
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Looking for Care for Your Baby?
Language: English
Author: Martin, Sally
Publisher: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (2001)
Description: This fact sheet describes things for parents to look for when looking for child care. It offers information and a checklist to help you collect information on a child care program so that you can make an informed decision about wether a particular program will meet your needs and your child's best interests.
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Quality Child Care: How Do I Know It When I See It?
Language: English
Author: Allen, Rose
Publisher: University of Minnesota Extension (2009)
Description: Finding out about all the options open to you is only the first step in selecting child care. The next step is to determine the quality of care in the child care centers or family child care homes you are looking at. This online article provides information for parents to use in deciding if a child care program is high quality.
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Rural Families Choose Home-Based Child Care for their Preschool-Aged Children Language: English
Author: Smith, Kristin
Publisher: The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire (Spring 2006)
Description: This policy brief discusses the child care choices of rural families. Although less prevalent than relative care, the use of informal non-related care providers for preschoolers is more common in rural communities than in urban areas. In sum, rural families choose home-based child care in the form of relatives or informal
non-related care providers to care for their preschoolers more often than organized care facilities.
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The Parent's Child Care Handbook/Guia de los Padres para el Cuidado del Niño
Language: Spanish, English
Author: Merk, Patricia
Publisher: Cooperative Extension Santa Cruz County, Arizona (Spring 2006)
Description: This publication provides lists of things for parents to check for when examining a possible child care provider or day care center. It provides your child care choices in selecting quality care for your child. This publication is also in Spanish on this page.
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Professional Development
Guidelines for Early Learning in Child Care Home Settings Language: English
Publisher: California Department of Education (2010)
Description: Recognizing that many children receive their early care and education in home-based settings, the CA Dept. of Education developed Guidelines for Early Learning in Child Care Home Settings specifically for family child care and exempt-care providers. This document covers the same topics as those in the Prekindergarten Guidelines (school and center based early learning guidelines), but it also addresses the specific concerns that home-based providers face every day as they strive to nurture and teach the children in their care. Additionally, it addresses the reality that many family child care and license-exempt providers serve infants and toddlers side by side with preschool-age children.
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Programming Resource
Caring for Young Children - Business Matters Language: English
Publisher: University of Maine (September 2011)
Description: Caregivers or business owners? Family home providers are both. This tip sheet, from the Growing Ideas series, gives practical information on business plans and business toolkits for the family home provider.
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Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start Language: English
Author: Paulsell, Diane
Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (April 2006)
Description: This news brief provides an overview of The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, funded by the Head Start Bureau in 2004, that supports the quality of care that kith and kin caregivers provide to infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs. This brief describes the early implementation experiences of the pilot projects based on visits to sites after one year of operation, as well as information on the characteristics of enrolled children, families, and caregivers.
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The Parent's Child Care Handbook/Guia de los Padres para el Cuidado del Niño
Language: Spanish, English
Author: Merk, Patricia
Publisher: Cooperative Extension Santa Cruz County, Arizona (April 2006)
Description: This publication provides lists of things for parents to check for when examining a possible child care provider or day care center. It provides your child care choices in selecting quality care for your child. This publication is also in Spanish on this page.
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Research
Care in the Home: A Description of Family Child Care and the Experiences of the Families and Children Who Use It Language: English
Author: Layzer, Jean
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (August 2007)
Description: This is the executive summary of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, a ten-year research effort designed to provide federal, state and local policy makers with information on the effects of federal, state and local policies and programs on child care at the community level, and on the employment and child care decisions of low-income families. It also provides insights into the characteristics and functioning of family child care, a type of care frequently used by low-income families, and the experiences of parents and their children with this form of care. Full report at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/cc/nsc_low_income/reports/care_home/care_home.pdf
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Identifying Profiles of Quality in Home-Based Child Care Language: English
Author: Forry, Nicole
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (April 2012)
Description: The purpose of this research brief is to provide information that can be used to target and guide content for professional development efforts designed for home-based child care providers. To do this, home-based providers who participated in a large multi-state study were grouped into three quality categories according to their scores on observational measures of teaching and interaction, tone/discipline, provisions for health, instructional supports for literacy, and caregiver sensitivity.
They also examined how providers in the three groups differed in their professional characteristics, their attitudes and supports, and the composition and characteristics of their home-based care settings.
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The Caring for Quality Project: Supporting and Connecting Home-Based Child Care Providers Language: English
Publisher: Rochester Childfirst Network (December 2006)
Description: This research project evaluated the impact of provider support/ mentoring and networking on the level of quality provided in child care home settings. Parents as Teachers curriuculum was used. This project involved an evaluation conducted by the Cornell Early Childhood Program. A pre-, post-test, random assignment design and a variety of measures are employed to assess project outcomes including: quality of the family child care home; provider characteristics (e.g. registered versus license-exempt status, utilization of the Child Adult Care Food Program and other services, job satisfaction, perceived social support, child rearing beliefs, and child development knowledge); and child cognitive and social development.
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