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State policies impacting the participation of young children with medical needs in child care: A policy analysis conducted in connection with a developmental disabilities project of national significance
Fink, Dale Borman, February, 2005
Farmington: University of Connecticut, A. J. Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.

An analysis of state policies that affect the participation of children with special health care needs child care, based on interviews with child care program providers and state agency representatives

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Supporting family, friend and neighbor caregivers: Findings from a survey of state policies
Porter, Toni, 2005
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012)

An examination of state regulatory policies for kith and kin child care providers receiving government subsidies

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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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