Family, friend and neighbor care: Promoting quality care and children's healthy development
Susman-Stillman, Amy R., 2004
Sacramento: First 5 California.
An overview of research regarding Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care (FFN) providing background information of FFN providers and parents, discussing the quality of FFN care, and exploring future implications for researchers and policy makers
Literature Review
Family, friend and neighbor care: Promoting quality care and children's healthy development: Executive summary
Susman-Stillman, Amy R., 2004
Sacramento: First 5 California.
A summary of a review of research on family, friend and neighbor care (FFN), with a focus on California
Executive Summary
Family, friend, and neighbor child caregivers: Results of a statewide study to determine needs and desires for support
Drake, Pamela M., 2006
Early Childhood Education Journal, 33(4), 239-244
A description of the results of a study designed to examine the support needs of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers in California, focusing on the need for licensing, informational materials, education and training, and supportive agencies
Reports & Papers
First 5 California Informal Child Caregiver Support Project: Focus groups and interviews report: Executive summary
Drake, Pamela M., June 2004
Sacramento: First 5 California.
A summary of a study of the support that family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers need and want in order to enhance children's development, based on focus groups with FFN caregivers and parents who use FFN child care
Executive Summary
First 5 California Informal Child Caregiver Support Project: Kit for New Parents focus groups with family, friend and neighbor caregivers: Executive summary
Drake, Pamela M., June 2004
Sacramento: First 5 California.
A summary of a study of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers' responses to the Kit for New Parents, a parenting education kit, based on focus groups with FFN caregivers
Executive Summary
Licensing family, friend and neighbor caregivers: Paradoxes and possibilities
Drake, Pamela M., 2005
In R. Rice (Ed.), Perspectives on family, friend and neighbor child care: Research, programs and policy (Occasional Paper Series No. 15, pp. 26-32). New York: Bank Street College of Education.
A discussion of licensing and regulation for family child care providers and the relationship between licensing and child care quality
Other
What we learned from focus groups and interviews throughout California
Drake, Pamela M., June 2004
Sacramento: First 5 California.
A study of the support that family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers need and want in order to enhance children's development, based on focus groups with FFN caregivers and parents who use FFN child care
Reports & Papers