1. Child Welfare League Of America: Child Day Care: Family Child Care Systems: DRAF the differences between family child care systems, networks, and associations, CWLA's National child Day care Task Force http://www.cwla.org/programs/daycare/fccsissuebrief.htm

Family Child Care Systems DRAFT Issue Brief "the demand for family child care is expected to grow..." General Accounting Office (GAO) December, 1994 "In most communities, providers function in almost total isolation - they have little opportunity to share ideas, learn new skills, or provide support and guidance to one another." Starting Points , Carnegie Corporation, 1994 "Communities should explore the potential for developing family child care systems..." The Study of Children in Family Child Care and Relative Care , Families and Work Institute, 1994 As a way to clarify and better distinguish the differences between family child care systems, networks, and associations, CWLA's National Child Day Care Task Force hopes that together with other national organizations, groups, and associations, a common set of definitions will be developed and adopted. The CWLA task force has drafted the following definitions to start the process. Family Child Care Associations Any membership organization composed of family child care providers who join together to enhance their professionalism. Family Child Care Networks A community-based group of family child care providers convened by a sponsoring agency for the purposes of peer support, sharing of resources and enhancing their professionalism. The primary consumer of a network is the family child care provider.

2. Family Child Care Committee Family child care Updates The Alabama child care Consortium is funded by the Alabama Department of Human Resources. child care initiative is sponsoring a statewide workshop on developing provider associations/support groups/networks. http://www.circ.uab.edu/childcare/familycom.htm

Consortium Advisory Committee Links Family Child Care Updates T he Alabama Child Care Consortium is funded by the Alabama Department of Human Resources. Announcements: The Family Child Care Advisory Committee will meet on August 8, from 10AM - noon, at the UAB Civitan International Research Center conference room. For more information contact: (205) 934-3171 (Robin Lanzi, UAB) rlanzi@uab.edu (205) 975-6330 fax Photos Data Collector Training Family Child Care Committee Photos Committees Child Care Research and Evaluation Funding and Policies Health and Safety Kith and Kin ... Back to Civitan Center Summary of Advisory Committee Meeting August 8, 2000 Attending: Catherine Kreger - GRCMA - Early Childhood Directions Geraldine Morris - Family Child Care Provider, Mobile Ellouise Pennington - Family Child Care Partnerships Program - Mentor Lillian Wiggins - Family Child Care Provider, Mobile OVERVIEW OF MEETING The steering committee held a conference call prior to the meeting and planned the agenda. Brenae Dunaway co-chaired the meeting. Updates were given concerning the focus areas: public awareness campaign, accreditation system, education and training, provider associations, and the Family Child Care Partnerships Program.

3. Starting Points: Guarantee Quality Child Care Choices and local child care agencies, resource and referral networks, and professional associations and businesses (see http://www.carnegie.org/starting_points/startpt3.html

Abridged Version Starting Points Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children Guarantee Quality Child Care Choices n a very real sense, parents and child care providers are jointly raising many of this nation's youngest children. In 1965, only 17 percent of mothers of one-year-olds were in the labor force; in 1991, fully 53 percent worked outside the home. More than five million infants and toddlers are now in the care of other adults while their parents work. More than a third of these young children are looked after by relatives, either at home or elsewhere. A quarter spend their days in child care centers; close to another quarter in family child care. A relatively small percentage of infants and toddlers are in the care of in-home providers or spend their days in other situations. How well is the current system of child care meeting the needs of our youngest children and their families? In some well-run settings, competent child care providers attend to small numbers of children, and infants and toddlers experience a happy and stimulating day. But in many other settings, each provider looks after five, six, or even seven infants. Children (and adults) in these settingswhich probably constitute the majorityare overstressed and unhappy. Many parents of infants and toddlers have few child care choices. Many would like to stay home longer after their baby is born, but someone must pay the bills, and the United States stands alone among major industrialized nations in not ensuring income protection for parental leave. When they do go back to work, too many parents are forced to "make do"to accept care that is safe and affordable but that falls short of the quality they would like for their young child. Many find themselves searching again and again for new arrangements as their initial "choices" prove unreliable or unsatisfactory. The disruption to the child, the family, and the parents' working life is immense and costly.

4. Development Of Family Child Care Networks developing community level family child care systems and using federal and otherfunding streams to fund family child care associations and networks. http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/nccic/research/quality/familycc.html

Development of Family Child Care Networks Many states have funded the development and support of family child networks through local recruitment effort and training and technical assistance (AL, AZ, FL, NY, TN). Several states have taken a different approach, in order to support the family child care providers. These include mini-grants for start-up of family child care providers (KY), mentoring projects (GA) and funds to help providers meet regulatory standards (MD). Family child care providers are an important source of child care for many families. In "Who's Minding Our Preschoolers," the Census Bureau found that 18 percent of children under 5 in care were placed with family child care providers. As the General Accounting Office reported in Promoting Quality in Family Child Care The flexibility of family child care makes it an attractive choice for parents...family child care providers...usually have longer hours, may provide weekend and evening care, and may accommodate the hours of parents working shifts. They are also more likely to offer part-time care...Part-time care is useful for those in the type of job training activities in which AFDC mothers participate. Hence, family child care is a frequent choice among low-income families. Between 18 and 20 percent of children under age 5 of poor, single, working mothers are in family child care. This finding has special implications for the administrators of the Child Care and Development Block Grant. The CCDBG allows parents to choose their provider, and many working families are choosing to place their children in family child care.

5. Consumer Education And Support Of Families have made this information available using established child care resource and referralnetworks, family child care associations and networks and opportunities http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/nccic/research/quality/cons-ed.html

Consumer Education and Support of Families In addition to the activities included in resource and referral agency contracts, states have undertaken special projects to educate parents about the value of quality in child care programs (AL, AK, AZ, DC, IN, NY, MD, TN). These include one-on-one counseling with parents (AL), the "Who's Watching Your Kids" campaign (AK), coordinated campaigns with other state agencies such as the Department of Education, Department of Health Services and the Governor's Office for Children and development of a "Kid's Safety Calendar" (AZ), and development of a consumer handbook "Choosing Child Care: A Guide for Maryland Families" (MD). Other projects that support families efforts to find quality child care include funding for child care programs that are partnerships with parents, including special grants to establish and support relationships with parents and teachers and to improve the quality of parental contacts (IL) and to gather information about reaching and working with fathers from low-income, high risk populations (MD). A primary goal of the Child Care and Development Block Grant, and of many statewide child care resource and referral agencies, is to help parents choose the best child care provider. Parents cannot meet the needs of their child or of the family as a whole if they do not have any information to help them choose. To that end, states have contributed the quality improvement funds to special projects to educate parents about quality child care what it looks like, how to find it, and how to be an educated consumer of child care.

6. Neighborhood Networks And Warm Lines Support Family Child Care Neighborhood networks and Warm Lines Support Family child care child care Bulletin July/August 1997, Issue 16 Developing neighborhood child care networks is a productive response to the child care challenges that face many communities. care centers, family child care associations, community collaboratives, and other groups to create active networks that http://nccic.org/ccb/ccb-ja97/neighbor.html

Neighborhood Networks and Warm Lines Support Family Child Care Roberta Malavenda Child Care Bulletin July/August 1997, Issue 16 Developing neighborhood child care networks is a productive response to the child care challenges that face many communities. The Save the Children Child Care Support Center (CCSC) in Atlanta, Georgia, works with partners such as churches and synagogues, housing authorities, child care centers, family child care associations, community collaboratives, and other groups to create active networks that build on each community's strengths and assets. The CCSC's role is to provide child care specialists for the community. The following examples show how neighborhood networks increase the supply of child care and improve its quality through training, technical assistance, and visits to family child care homes and to informal caregivers. In Dallas, Georgia, a fast-growing community west of Atlanta, CCSC joined with the Paulding Collaborative for Children and Families to plan an expanded system of quality early care and education beginning at birth. Through "Starting Points," families with newborns are contacted and offered services, and an "Early Start" program, funded by the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Foundation, features a family child care network and home-based child development activities. The Collaborative also sponsors a child care committee to encourage business, government, and others to invest in the community's child care system and contributes space for the CCSC's parent referral service.

7. Neighborhood Networks And Warm Lines Support Family Child Care housing authorities, child care centers, family child care associations, communitycollaboratives, and other groups to create active networks that build on http://www.nccic.org/ccb/ccb-ja97/neighbor.html

Neighborhood Networks and Warm Lines Support Family Child Care Roberta Malavenda Child Care Bulletin July/August 1997, Issue 16 Developing neighborhood child care networks is a productive response to the child care challenges that face many communities. The Save the Children Child Care Support Center (CCSC) in Atlanta, Georgia, works with partners such as churches and synagogues, housing authorities, child care centers, family child care associations, community collaboratives, and other groups to create active networks that build on each community's strengths and assets. The CCSC's role is to provide child care specialists for the community. The following examples show how neighborhood networks increase the supply of child care and improve its quality through training, technical assistance, and visits to family child care homes and to informal caregivers. In Dallas, Georgia, a fast-growing community west of Atlanta, CCSC joined with the Paulding Collaborative for Children and Families to plan an expanded system of quality early care and education beginning at birth. Through "Starting Points," families with newborns are contacted and offered services, and an "Early Start" program, funded by the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Foundation, features a family child care network and home-based child development activities. The Collaborative also sponsors a child care committee to encourage business, government, and others to invest in the community's child care system and contributes space for the CCSC's parent referral service.

8. Selected Resource Lists. Family Child Care Beansprout networks ®. Center for the child care Workforce. State Familychild care associations. California Association for Family child care. http://www.nccic.org/cctopics/famcare.html

Questions? Privacy Site Index Contact Us ... Selected Resource Lists Family Child Care Publications Organizations and Links Head Start Family Child Care Option Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) The resources listed on this site provide an overview of the resources available. The National Child Care Information Center does not endorse any organization, publication or resource. If you have questions or would like additional information about this or other topics, please contact the National Child Care Information Center at (800) 616-2242 or at info@nccic.org NOTE : Some of the publications listed on the Selected Resource Lists are available as PDF (portable document format) files. To be able to read these files, download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Publications 2002 Family Child Care Licensing Study Children’s Foundation Accreditation Process: Family Child Care Missouri Center for Accreditation of Early Childhood Education and School Age Child Care Programs Better Baby Care: A Book for Family Day Care Providers (Revised) Children's Foundation Celebrating the History of Family Child Care Children’s Foundation Child Care Licensing Requirements: Minimum Pre-service Qualifications, Orientation/Initial Licensure, and Annual Ongoing Training Hours

9. Child Welfare League Of America: Child Day Care: Related Child Care Links electronic networks and databases; clearinghouses and national organizations; ACF 400state and local family child care provider associations in the http://www.cwla.org/programs/daycare/childcarelinks.htm

Related Child Care Links The Child Care Bureau U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children, Youth, and Families Switizer Building, Room 2046 330 C Street, SW Washington, DC 20447 Telephone: 202-690-6782 Website: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ccb The Child Care Bureau was created January 11, 1995. The Child Care Bureau is part of the Administration on Children, Youth and Pamilies in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The Child Care Bureau is dedicated to enhancing the quality, affordability, and supply of child care available for all families. The Child Care Bureau administers Federal funds to States, Territories, and Tribes to assist low income families in accessing quality child care for children while parents work or participate in education or training. The Child Care Bureau administers the Child Care and Development Fund program and provides technical assistance to the nation on a variety of topics related to child care. National Child Care Information Center 243 Church Street, NW, 2nd Floor

10. Profiles Of A Successful Child Care Program CCSC currently has two networks directly related to public housing lending library);and (5) linkages to provider associations, the child care resource and http://www.enterprisefoundation.org/model documents/1239.htm

P ROFILES O F S UCCESSFUL C HILD C ARE P ROGRAMS Family Child Care Provider Networks (On or Near Site) December 1999 Save The Children Child Care Support Center CCSC uses various strategies to develop and support the family child care homes. These strategies are based on the needs and resources of the community, but all include five basic components: (1) recruiting individuals to serve as family child care providers; (2) training the providers (this includes introductory workshops as well as advanced professional development that can lead to a certificate or degree in early childhood); (3) technical assistance (including home visits and assistance in complying with regulatory requirements); (4) assistance in obtaining start-up equipment and supplies (via distribution of equipment such as smoke detectors, or small grants for equipment purchase, or access to a toy and equipment lending library); and (5) linkages to provider associations, the child care resource and referral agency and the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. Financing: The projects draw funds from a variety of sources, depending upon local needs and resources. The Dallas project is primarily supported by a community foundation grant. The Lawrenceville site has a federal family support/family preservation grant as well as private funds. Some start-up equipment and supplies are funded with federal dependent care grant funds. All sites have access to child care subsidy funds from the State Division of Family Services and reimbursement from the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program to cover the cost of meals and snacks.

11. Child Care Articles on family child care providers, child care associations, literacy and The Beansproutchild care Network, a public service of Beansprout networks, is available http://www2.state.id.us/dhw/ecic/child_care.htm

= Article; = Link; = Question = New (less than 30 days old); = Updated (during the last 30 days) Child Care - Suggestions for parents on how to learn about their child through observing them in their child care setting, plus links to additional resources relating to balancing work and family issues. Be a Good Child Care Parent The parents’ responsibility does not end once they selected the child care center/home for their child. Just as the child care provider is nurturing your children, the parent needs to nurture their relationship with their child care provider. The article includes tips from Idaho child care providers on what helps make their job easier and/or results in a better child care experience for them, the families, and especially for the children. Care Provider - A tribute to child care providers; words and music by John Cronin. Child and Adult Care Food Program - USDA Food Program description and contact.

12. RNI: The National Center For The Business Of Family Child Care To find the names of these associations, call the National Association for FamilyChild care at 800 consider approaching all three of these networks in a http://www.redleafinstitute.org/Index.cfm?section=ART&Page=ART74

13. Child Care Information Exchange (www.ccie.com) USA child care's goal is to undertake successful programs that focus on buildingstrong provider associations and communication networks, bringing new http://www.ccie.com/ECEorgs/xpartners.cfm

14. CHILDCARE BY CHOICE - T.E.A.C.H. Technical assistance efforts currently include building and supporting family childcare associations and networks, building and supporting child care center http://www.childcarebychoice.org/ccrra.html

WELCOME FOR FAMILIES FOR PROVIDERS CONTACT US ... ABOUT US PROGRAMS ABC Vouchers T.E.A.C.H. Training FORMS Request for ChildCare (Fill in) Request for ChildCare (Print) Child Care Provider Registration NEWSLETTER GUESTBOOK Sign Guestbook View Guestbook LOCATION RESOURCES ... EMAIL US SEARCH WEBSITE The South Carolina Association of Helping South Carolina Communities Improve the Quality, Availability and Affordability of Child Care Greenville's Child, Inc. (Upstate) PO Box 8821 Greenville, SC 29604-8821 (864) 467-4800 or 1-877-467-4800 (toll free) Fax: (864) 467-4805 E-mail: gchild@ascinc.net Web page: http://analog.acsinc.net/gchild Interfaith Community Services of SC, Inc. (Midlands, Pee Dee and Low Country) PO Box 11570 Columbia, SC 29211-1570 (803) 252-8391 or 1-800-879-2219 (toll free) Fax: (803) 799-1572 E-mail: icsofsc@earthlink.net Web page: www.midnet.sc.edu/icsofsc Childcare by Choice, United Way of Aiken County PO Box 699 Aiken, SC 29802-0699 (803) 648-8331 or 1-877-919-2828 (toll free) Fax: (803) 278-0530 E-mail: mharper@childcarebychoice.org

15. Coalitions, Networks, Associations, Organizations OSSTF Logo Lamp of Learning. Coalitions, networks, associations, Organizations.Coalitions Ontario Coalition for Better child care, www.childcareontario.org/. http://www.osstf.on.ca/www/links/networks.html

Coalitions, Networks, Associations, Organizations Coalitions Coalition of Black Trade Unionists www.cbtu.ca/ Friends of Public Education www.fope2000.org/ Mayworks www.mayworks.ca/ Metro Network for Social Justice www.mnsj.org/ Ontario Coalition for Social Justice www.ocsj.ca/ Ontario Health Coalition www.web.net/ohc/ Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care www.childcareontario.org/ People for Education www.peopleforeducation.com/ Sparrow Lake Alliance www.sparrowlake.org/ Web Networks Community www.community.web.ca/ White Ribbon Campaign www.whiteribbon.ca/ Networks Toronto Parent Network www.members.home.net/torontoparentnet/ Associations Canadian Federation of Students, Ontario www.cfsontario.ca/ Kids Help Phone kidshelp.sympatico.ca/ Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations www.ocufa.on.ca/ Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations www.ofhsa.on.ca/ Ontario Public School Boards' Association www.opsba.org/ Ontario Student Trustees' Association www.osta-aeco.org/ Ottawa-Carleton Assembly of School Councils home.istar.ca/~timhayes/OCASC.html

16. F. B. Heron Foundation - Program Guidelines In addition, the Foundation supports peer networks, trade associations, and technicalassistance that creates jobs, or quality and affordable child care. http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/fbheron/prog_guide.html

From the President Program Guidelines Application Procedure ... HOME A printer-friendly version of these guidelines is also available PDF format, requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader MISSION The F.B. Heron Foundation was created in 1992 with the mission of helping people and communities to help themselves. AREAS OF PROGRAM INTEREST To advance its mission, the Foundation supports organizations that help low-income people to create wealth and take control of their lives . The Foundation makes grants to and investments in programs in urban and rural communities engaged in the following wealth-creation strategies: increasing access to capital; supporting enterprise development; advancing home ownership; reducing the barriers to full participation in the economy by providing quality child care; employing comprehensive community development approaches with a strong focus on the wealth-creation strategies noted above. Details on these five program areas are provided below, in the section titled " Wealth Creation Strategies ." In addition to its grantmaking, the Foundation makes other kinds of investments to support these program areas, and seeks to accelerate the level of its assets invested to support the mission. A fuller description of the Foundation's mission-related investing program can be found below in the section "

17. USA Child Care | Programs USA child care's goal is to undertake successful programs that focus on buildingstrong provider associations and communication networks, thereby bringing new http://www.usachildcare.org/programs/

USA Child Care's goal is to undertake successful programs that focus on building strong provider associations and communication networks, thereby bringing new financial resources to the field and developing benchmarks for a quality system of early care and education. Current programs include: Child Care Issues and Advocacy Legislative Watch National Development Project National Information Network ... Legal Notice USA Child Care usacc@usachildcare.org webteam@usachildcare.org

18. ONET... Reaching Home Child Care Providers Across Ontario invited to sit with other professional associations who share Level 2 of the FamilyChild care Training has been The networks in Bolton and Thunder Bay piloted http://www.geocities.com/ottawachildcare/onet/

ONET... reaching home child care providers across Ontario The Ontario Network of Home Child Care Provider Groups (ONET) provides home-based child care providers and caregiver groups with support, information, resource services and a provincial voice for home child care. What is ONET? A means of connecting home child care provider groups across the province. A forum for improving the status of home child care providers (caregivers) in Ontario and nation-wide. A mechanism for disseminating critical information on child care issues to providers throughout the province. To actively encourage and assist in the grassroots development of training, resources, information, and support services for caregivers and caregiver groups. Membership Any individual providing child care in a home setting in Ontario. Any caregiver group providing support to home child care providers (caregivers) in Ontario. Associate members such as community links. Benefits of Membership By joining ONET each association and child care provider will: Be invited to sit with other professional associations who share common goals and objectives.

19. Association Des Educateurs Du Quebec for the Council of Canadian child and Youth care associations. Patrick Gallagheris the Past President of this organization which networks on behalf of the http://www.geocities.com/~beardy/QAE1.htm

Welcome The purpose of the QAE web site will be to present information concerning the child and youth care association in Quebec: Message contains a message from the President News highlights items of interest and those practitioners the association recognizes for their exceptional contributions (up-dated) Articles gathers writing from the newsletters Reports includes those reports submitted to the Board Connect will inform you as to how to get in touch with the QAE regarding membership, submissions for the newsletter and so forth. Did you know? Montreal and the QAE hosted an International Child and Youth Care Conference in 1991? The QAE is exploring hosting another in 2006. Fast Links: Membership Form Excellence Award Nomination Form Please prints a copy of the forms provided and mail it into the address provided. The Journal of Child and Youth Care Work is seeking submissions from front line workers and managers. A range of articles is of interest, including writing that focus on the challenges of our work in specific settings or with specific client groups; articles that examine professional issues in child and youth care; first person accounts; case studies and creative pieces such as poetry and stories about our work. This journal is particularly committed to assisting first time authors and editorial assistance is available.

20. Start Up & Funding Your Daycare child care providers and if there are family child care networks in your more than400 state and local family child care provider associations in the http://www.childcarecenters.org/Providers/start_daycare/1.htm

For Informational Purposes Only Family child care can be an exciting and rewarding field, and a wonderful opportunity to have a positive impact on the lives of children and their families in your community. We hope that the following information will help you prepare to open your home to families seeking quality care for their children. Resources in Your Community When starting a career in family child care, it is important to identify the resources for child care providers that exist in your community. Child care resource and referral agencies can provide information about current market rates and can link you with training opportunities and other resources. In some areas, family child care providers have organized into networks that offer training, resources, and group benefits such as health and liability insurance. Joining a local

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