Home-Based Child Care: Leveraging Federal Funds to Support HBCC

Slide Deck October 19, 2021

This slide-deck is part of our Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) National Webinar Series. The recent federal investment in child care has created an unprecedented moment in time. This slide-deck investigates how states and communities can center HBCC providers and educators in their funding decisions, how some states are using federal funds to support HBCC, and how states can work toward an equitable approach to supporting HBCC.

Relationship-Based Supports for Home-Based Child Care: What to Embrace and What to Avoid

Blog September 29, 2021

This blog explores the hallmarks of effective relationship-based supports for family child care educators. It is written with input from Juliet Bromer, Erikson Institute; Danielle Caldwell, a home-based child care educator in North Carolina; and Colette Masty, a Michigan quality support provider with Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care and license-exempt providers.

Relationship-Based Support for Home-Based Child Care Assessment Tool

Website September 29, 2021

The Relationship-Based Support to Home-Based Child Care assessment tool (RBS-HBCC) examines the quality of relationships and interactions between home-based child-care providers and staff specialists who support these providers at networks and other organizations. The tool is based on a conceptual model that hypothesizes high-quality support as including relationship-based, responsive approaches to meeting the needs of providers as well as the developmental needs of children in care and the work needs of families.

Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems

Archived Webinar September 28, 2021

During this webinar, viewers learned how states, NAFCC, family child care associations, and provider-led community-based networks are addressing racial and linguistic inequities in early care and education systems by offering authentic, responsive, and relevant supports to marginalized family child care educators. Panelists shared their experience in re-envisioning, implementing, and sustaining ECE systems change with family child care educators at the center.

Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems

Slide Deck September 28, 2021

This resource is a slide deck from the webinar, Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems, investigates how states, NAFCC, family child care associations, and provider-led community-based networks are addressing racial and linguistic inequities in early care and education systems by offering authentic, responsive, and relevant supports to marginalized family child care educators.

Supporting Informal Child Care Providers in Detroit

Article July 1, 2021

Transforming children's early care and education into a high-quality learning experience is central to making the city of Detroit a world-class city for its children and families. This article highlights learnings from a formative evaluation of a collaborative effort by a funder, a research organization, and three community partners that set out to shed light on the strengths, limitations, and needs of informal child care providers in southwest Detroit.

What is a Shared Services Alliance?

Website June 1, 2021

The business model for small child care programs is fundamentally flawed, but banding together may help providers operate more efficiently and reach the scale they need to weather financial storms. Shared Services is one approach that is working. The Opportunities Exchange website, dedicated to helping the early childhood field achieve financial sustainability and strong child outcomes through shared services, offers many resources about shared services.

Philadelphia’s Early Learning Community Speaks Out: An Action Plan for Quality Improvement

Report June 1, 2021

This report explores opportunities to further develop and improve a system of quality improvement and supports in Philadelphia. Based on input from more than 300 early childhood providers, 16 quality improvement organizations, and four public and private funders, the report offers 17 recommendations for quality improvement.

Home-Based Child Care: Using Federal Relief Funds to Support Home-Based Child Care

Video May 28, 2021

This webinar recording, part of BUILD’s ongoing series on Home-Based Child Care, covers core beliefs about strengthening home-based child care, funding available through federal relief funding, and potential strategies and recommendations for using federal relief funding.

The American Rescue Plan: Recommendations for Addressing Early Educator Compensation and Supports

Article May 4, 2021

In this article The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment offers seven recommendations for using ARPA funding to address early educator compensation and supports.