Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report
An evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers
Reports & Papers
Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers
Executive Summary
Assessing initiatives for family, friend, and neighbor child care: An overview of models and evaluations
A description of current efforts to support and enhance home-based, regulation-exempt child care provided by family, friends, and/or neighbors, and of the documentation and evaluation of these efforts
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Beyond child care centers: The essential role of home-based child care in Connecticut's early care and education system
An overview of the role of family child care homes in the early care and education system in Connecticut, focusing on issues of regulation, cost, supply, and quality
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2002 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive
information about the families and children served through the federal
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to
states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income
families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance,
in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on
their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2003 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2004 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive
information about the families and children served through the federal
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to
states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income
families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance,
in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on
their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child care and early education programs
An overview of the number of child care providers and slots, by provider characteristics, in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child care in the homes of family, friends or neighbors
An overview of family, friend, and neighbor child care provision in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Children, caregiving, culture, and community: Understanding the place and importance of kith and kin care in the White Mountain Apache community
An ethnographic study of the values and circumstances influencing the child care decisions of members of the White Mountain Apache community, with particular attention to both cultural differences in perceptions of quality care and the trends related to the use of family, friend, and neighbor care, based on interviews, observations, and discussions with several dozen parents and care providers
Reports & Papers
Close to home: State strategies to strengthen and support family, friend, and neighbor care
An overview of policy options for states to support family, friend, and neighbor child care and early education
Other
The condition of education 2007
An annual statistical report on the status and progress of education in the United States, including early childhood education program enrollment and after school activities
Other
Demographic and family differences in the use of early childhood care and education in Pennsylvania: A 2002 baseline
A baseline study of family, demographic, and child age characteristics associated with selection of several types of child care and early education, based on data collected from a random sample of 1,005 Pennsylvania families with young children in 2002
Reports & Papers
Difficult children and difficult parents: Constructions by child care providers
A survey-based examination of family home child care providers and their strategies of dealing with children with behavioral issues, including biting, physical aggression, unruliness, destruction, and loud children/screamers
Reports & Papers
Exploring cultural differences in children’s exposure to television in home-based child care settings
A comparison of patterns of television use in the family child care sites run by 50 African American and 50 Latino child care providers serving children under age 5 in low-income areas of Los Angeles County
Reports & Papers
Family child care (FCC) research: Table of methods and findings
A table summarizing the research questions, groups studied, methods, validity and reliability issues, and findings of studies discussed in an accompanying literature review examining regulated family child care in the United States, including survey, observation, demonstration, and evaluation research
Table Of Findings
Family child care in the United States
A summary of a review of research studies examining family child care (FCC), addressing questions of FCC definitions, providers, users, and quality
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Family child care in the United States
A review of research studies examining regulated family child care in the United States, including survey, observation, demonstration, and evaluation research
Literature Review
Family, friend, and neighbor care best practices: A report to Ready 4 K: How culturally diverse families teach their children to succeed and how early education systems can learn from them: Full report
A description of informal care and early education practices of African-American, Hmong, Latino, Mille Lacs/Ojibwe, and Somali communities in Minnesota, and an analysis of the relationship between caregiving practices in these communities and the skills and abilities guidelines expressed in
Minnesota’s Early Learning Standards
Reports & Papers
Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregiver Project: 2006 report
An evaluation of the Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregiver Project in 2006, a community-based initiative to develop a network of supports and resources for family, friend, and neighbor caregivers and the children they care for
Reports & Papers
Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregiver Project: 2006 report [Executive summary]
An evaluation of the Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregiver Project in 2006, a community-based initiative to develop a network of supports and resources for family, friend, and neighbor caregivers and the children they care for
Executive Summary
Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers
An examination of statewide efforts to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions
Reports & Papers
Home-based and family child care: Characteristics and quality issues
An exploration of the characteristics of home-based child care and family child care settings, and a description of program quality determinants such as curricula, professional development opportunities, and program purpose
Other
Measuring quality in family, friend, and neighbor child care: Conceptual and practical issues
An exploration of selected considerations and challenges in measuring the quality of family, friend, and neighbor child care, including issues of parent choice, definitions, and instruments of measurement
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Millennium Cohort Study: Childcare
Findings at age three of the families' child care arrangements, hours, and costs from a longitudinal cohort study of children born between 2000 and 2002 in the United Kingdom
Fact Sheets & Briefs
