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Beyond child care: The informal family support and community roles of African-American child care providers
Bromer, Juliet, August 2006
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

An examination of the social support and community-building roles of African-American non-parental child care providers serving low-income families, drawing information from carework literature and Black feminist scholarship

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Child care as family support: Caregiving practices across child care providers
Bromer, Juliet, 2004
Children and Youth Services Review, 26(10), 941-964

A conceptual model of the family support role played by child care providers

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Family child care, family support, and community development in low-income neighborhoods
Bromer, Juliet, November 2002
Zero to Three, 23(2), 33-37

A study of the formal and informal support offered to families, children, and communities by a selection of family child care providers from low income neighborhoods, based on interviews with 7 African American providers and 14 parents from 2 neighboring Chicago communities

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The Family Child Care Network Impact Study: Promising strategies for improving family child care quality
Bromer, Juliet, 2009
(Policy Brief No 1). Chicago: Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy.

A series of recommendations for governments and stakeholders for the improvement of quality in family child care sites in low-income urban areas through investment in staffed networks lead by specially-trained coordinators who provide training and support to family child care providers, based on the results of a two-year study of 150 family child care sites in Chicago

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Family-provider relationship quality: Review of conceptual and empirical literature of family-provider relationships
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, November, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-46). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A review of literature that conceptualizes relationships between families and early care and education providers and that identifies factors associated with high-quality family-provider relationships

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Family-sensitive caregiving: A key component of quality in early care and education arrangements
Bromer, Juliet, 2011
In M. Zaslow, I. Martinez-Beck, K. Tout, & T. Halle (Eds.), Quality measurement in early childhood settings (pp. 161-190). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes

A presentation of a model for the assessment of early childhood education and care providers' attitudes towards, knowledge about, and practices with families with young children

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Helpers, mothers, and preachers: The multiple roles and discourses of family child care providers in an African-American community
Bromer, Juliet, 2001
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 16(3), 313-327

An interview-based analysis of advice and information seven African American family child care providers offer to low income parents

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Informal Social Support Roles of African American Child Care Providers in Low Income Communities
Bromer, Juliet, 2001
University of Chicago

An examination of the ways African-American child care providers support low-income African-American parents and neighborhoods beyond the daily responsibilities of child care, and the relationships that develop among African-American child care providers, parents, and communities. The study explores the extent to which providers offer parents emotional and financial support in addition to child care, as well as how providers expand their caring to local neighborhoods through informal monitoring and organizing.

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Policy initiatives for the informal child care sector
Bromer, Juliet, 2002
Poverty Research News, 6(1), 15-16.

A summary of policy initiatives for the informal child care sector

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Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) and family-sensitive caregiving in early care and education arrangements: Promising directions and challenges
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2011
(Issue Brief OPRE 2011-11d). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A discussion of the alignment of family-sensitive care model concepts with child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) indicators for family partnerships

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[Review of the book Time to care: Redesigning child care to promote education, support families, and build communities]
Bromer, Juliet, 2003
Social Service Review, 77(3), 489-452

A review of an argument in favor of a significant expansion of the actual United States government effort towards child care based on evidence from science and care practice as well as on the experiences of the author, a former Associate Commissioner of the United States Child Care Bureau

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Staffed support networks and quality in family child care: Findings from the Family Child Care Network Impact Study
Bromer, Juliet, May 2009
Chicago: Herr Research Center.

A study of the relationship between child care quality and family child care provider membership in staffed networks--programs that use paid staff to deliver services and support to providers, based on comparisons of quality among licensed family child care providers in Chicago, including 80 providers affiliated with staffed networks, 40 unaffiliated providers, and 30 providers affiliated with provider-led support associations which do not use paid staff

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Staffed support networks and quality in family child care: Findings from the Family Child Care Network Impact Study: Executive summary
Bromer, Juliet, December 2008
Chicago: Herr Research Center.

A summary of a study of the relationship between child care quality and family child care provider membership in staffed networks--programs that use paid staff to deliver services and support to providers, based on comparisons of quality among licensed family child care providers in Chicago, including 80 providers affiliated with staffed networks, 40 unaffiliated providers, and 30 providers affiliated with provider-led support associations which do not use paid staff

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Ways of caring: How relative caregivers support children and parents
Bromer, Juliet, 2005
In R. Rice (Ed.), Perspectives on family, friend and neighbor child care: Research, programs and policy (Occasional Paper Series No. 15, pp. 14-21). New York: Bank Street College of Education.

An investigation of the support roles of African American relatives as child care providers in poor Chicago neighborhoods, citing interviews with 9 grandmothers and 1 aunt who offered full time child care to at least one relative child

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The work-family support roles of child care providers across settings
Bromer, Juliet, Q3 2009
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24(3), 271-288

A qualitative investigation of provider perceptions of their supportive roles for families meeting work- and family-related needs, based on interviews and questionnaire responses of a sample of 29 child care providers serving low income families in the Chicago area

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