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Defining Policy Drives Practice: Building the Roadmap for Staffed Family Child Care Networks

Part of the Resource Collection: Fiscal Strategies: Efficiencies, Innovations, and Revenue Generation Report
By: Louise Stoney February 1, 2021
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This issue brief from Opportunities Exchange (OppEx)explores how to reinvent the early care and education (ECE) sector in a post-pandemic world and what role home-based care can play. OppEx believes that home-based child care is essential and that policy that bolsters provider networks— commonly referred to as Staffed Family Child Care Networks is a foundational strategy to ensure the ongoing supply of quality home-based care.

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For more than 60 years, Head Start has provided high-quality child care, comprehensive services, and a two-generation approach that helps families furthest from opportunity access early learning, development, health, and family well-being supports.