Strengthening Family Child Care In Low-Income Communities

Blog Editor's note:
This is an extensive 42 page article that would be of interest to child care providers, parents, and parents who provide care care in their homes.

http://www.surdna.org/usr_doc/childcare.pdf


Summary source: Surdna Foundation

Community-based organizations, especially community development corporations, are playing a significant role in family child care. This report shows how community-based nonprofits are key to the emergence of an infrastructure of support for family-based care through networks and systems. The family child care systems and networks serve to support, organize and increase the supply and quality of family child care providers. We see the most successful strategies implemented through community-based institutions offering a combination of services and supports in both business and child development to address the multi-layered needs of providers.