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Topic

  • Learning Environments
  • Local Early Childhood Partnerships
  • Program Planning
  • Health Services Management
  • Human Resources
  • Professional Development
  • School Readiness

Tag

  • Family child care providers (11)
  • Program planning systems (2)
  • Staff qualifications (2)
  • Recruiting and hiring (1)

Audience

  • Technical Assistance Providers (3)
  • Teachers and Caregivers (1)

Program Options

  • Family Child Care (9)

Type

  • Article (8)
  • Video (2)
  • Publication (1)

Age Group

Program Type

Series

  • Meaningful Makeover Series (3)
Family child care providers

Meaningful Makeover

Designed for family child care providers, Meaningful Makeover offers tips, visuals, and inexpensive solutions that transform environments. Each episode highlights simple improvements that are easy to make.

Addressing Challenges in Family Child Care Environments

Address some of the challenges in family child care settings, such as defining engaging learning areas in small spaces. Learn how making small environmental changes support children’s learning and development.

Overcoming Challenges in the Family Child Care Setting

Watch the Meaningful Makeover crew work with family child care providers to provide safe learning environments for mixed-aged groups. Create environments that promote children’s social and emotional development.

Planning for Health and Safety in Family Child Care

Discover resources to help staff plan for health and safety in family child care. Find information about mental health, nutrition, oral health, physical health, and safety practices.

Supporting Early Care and Education in Family Child Care

Take a look at these resources and materials to find ways to support family child care providers as they plan to deliver early care and education services.

Professional Qualifications and Development in Family Child Care

Discover resources to support programs and individuals as they meet the applicable professional qualifications and engage in professional development opportunities in the family child care option.

Research on Family Child Care

Explore research on the impact of quality practices, models for quality home-based child care (i.e., family child care), and partnerships between child care and Head Start, and Early Head Start programs.

Early Head Start for Family Child Care Demonstration Project

Explore materials from an Office of Head Start and Office of Child Care demonstration project. These resources may be useful to  Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships that include family child care partners.

Strategies to Support Family Child Care

Explore available resources to learn more about ways to support the family child care workforce. Find out how to promote quality care, family engagement, school readiness, and professional growth and development.

Intentional Planning and Quality Improvement in Family Child Care

Use these resources and materials to help plan to deliver services within a family child care setting.

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