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Supporting Informal Child Care Providers in Detroit

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By: Megan Hague Angus, Jaime Thomas, Mynti Hossain, Nazihah Siddiqui, Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Daisy Gonzalez, and Patricia Del Grosso, Mathematica July 1, 2021
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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.

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Home-Based Child Care: Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English

Archived Meeting Resources December 17, 2021

This is the slide deck from the November 16 webinar, Home-Based Child Care: Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English. Home-Based Child Care is popular because many providers offer flexible schedules and are more familiar and affordable to families than child care centers. In addition, many families are able to find home-based providers with cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds similar to their own. Nearly one-fifth of the ECE workforce are immigrants, with many educators speaking languages other than English, and close to a quarter of all HBCC providers speaking Spanish. During this webinar, participants learned how states and communities can recognize and support this critical population of educators.