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Strengthening Family Child Care
Quality Peer Learning Group
Session Seven:
Team Reports and Next Steps
July 12, 2018
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Participating States
◆ Tennessee
◆ Hawaii
◆ Georgia
◆ California
◆ Massachusetts
◆ Kansas
◆ Maine
◆ Virginia
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Tennessee
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Team Members:
Joining in the fun at our 2018 Spring TFCCA State Family Child Care ConferenceIt’s a Family Affair- Celebrating
Mentoring, Partnerships and Families in Family Child Care
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Continued Funding of Project TOPSTARTennessee’s Outstanding Providers Supported Through Available Resources
Tennessee’s Family Child Care Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program
DHS’s Investment in Tennessee’s Family Child Care Mentoring Program increased by 400% this year!
2018-2019 FY…TFCCA and TECTA merged to support family child care provider’s professional development at all levels of learning…our focus is to provide support where the providers are, and allowing them to move forward at their own pace.
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
The shared experiences from the presenters and fellow PLG members has proven to be very beneficial.
Being part of this community has shown us we are not alone…the struggles are real.
The feeling we are at least in the ball park of enhancing, improving and growing Tennessee’s FCC Community is Awesome!
Next steps for moving forward with our goals for strengthening family child care Focusing on increasing current fcc professional
development …NAFCC accreditation, CDA (course work -micro-credential) and Early Childhood AAS degree (available statewide) and beyond
Increase staff in TECTA and TFCCA. They will focus on professional development for currently licensed providers
Prepare incoming fcc candidates to become licensed and provide access to mentoring with ongoing professional development opportunities
Hawaii
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Team Members:
Jordana Ferreira: Associate Director, PATCH (CCR&R)
Christine Jackson: Head Start Collaboration Office, Executive Office on Early Learning
Mary Ann Nemoto: Learning to Grow
Gina Lewis: Learning to Grow
Kerrie Urosevich: Coordinator; Early Childhood Action Strategy
Pegeen Echavaria: Family Child Care Provider; Learn, Play Pray Daycare
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Establish FCC satellites/networks in communities to strengthen social networking and resource-sharing.
Broaden professional development options and outreach for quality improvements specific to FCC care setting.
Provide incentive packages focusing on recruitment and retention of licensed FCC providers.
Increase the number of accredited FCC providers in Hawaii.
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
Although not formal, we already have fundamental components of an FCC network statewide that we can work to build and enhance.
Through PLG partners and other state collaborators, we have access to resources we can share with FCC providers and incorporate into the existing FCC network.
The Policy Self-Assessment Tool was instrumental in assessing what we currently have in place and what we lack, particularly around data collection.
Next steps for moving forward with our goals for strengthening family child care
Assess what services are currently being provided through the informal FCC network and create a logic model specific to the needs of our community and identify priorities and goals.
Assess whether resources from the PLG sessions can be implemented into existing services or identified “next steps”.
Meet with DHS (CCDF administrator) to explore commitment to support efforts identified from the PLG team.
Georgia
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Team Members:Team Members
Kristie Lewis…………………. Asst. Commissioner for Child Care Services
Carol Hartman……………….. Director of Policy & System Reform
Melissa Davis………………… CCS Director of Quality Operations
Jess Peterick………………… CAPS Policy & Process Improvement Administrator
Angela Melton……………….. CCR&R Contract Manager
Randy Hudgins……………… Senior Research & Policy Analyst
Pamela Hall…………………... Workforce Development Specialist
Margrett Stephens………….. Quality Rated Training & TA Coordinator
Joe Perrault………………….. PFCCA Public Policy Advisor
Patricia Sullivant……………. CCR&R Director of Family Child Care Services
Ednilda Colon-Rivera………. Director of Early Head Start Partnership
Lynn Manfredi/Pettit………… PFCCA Past President, FCC Provider
Miranda Murphy……………... Infant-Toddler Specialist
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Reverse the decline of Family Child Care available and accessible to families
Raise prestige level and viability of Family Child Care – as a career and as a child care option
Increase quality of services provided
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
FCC Decline is a national problem, not specific to our state
Planning Tool is useful to analyze supports to FCC
The many resources that are available to FCC through a SFCCN
Process provided dedicated time and tools to pull together the group to do the work
Discovered many strengths, some challenges, and some opportunities
Next steps for moving forward with our goals for strengthening family child care
✓Research
✓PlanDevelop Logic Model, Cost AnalysisPresent to Senior LeadershipObtain permission to proceedCCR&R contracts, amendmentsQCC EHS advocates to other CCR&Rs
✓Act
✓Monitor
✓Review
California
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Alameda County Early Care and Education
First 5 Alameda County
Family Child Care Providers
SEIU Local 521
4Cs
BANANAS
Child Care Links
California Department of Education
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
Team Members:Rozy Jhinnu - Team Lead
Margaret Jerene - Team Lead
Gail Brodie
Carolyn Carpenter
Eva Chou
Lola Cornish
Vanessa Dilks
Cecelia Fisher-Dahms
Roseanne Galli-Adams
Valerie Hamilton
Nancy Harvey
Erica Ortiz
Bahaar Tadjbaksh
Barbara Terrell
From left to right: Eva Chou, Bahaar Tadjbaksh, Carolyn Carpenter, Rozy Jhinnu, and Erica Ortiz
Margaret Jerene
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Funding and developing a staffed FCC quality network in Alameda County
Establishing a strong FCC Learning Network across the state
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
The importance of data in determining the needs of FCC providers• The lack of data on FCCs needs and why people are leaving• Need data to address issues
The different FCC network models (by state) → how states were approaching building a staffed FCC quality network
Determining what policy benchmarks → what policies are in place or needed • Policy assessment tool
Research/Resources • Services offered by network and cost estimation tool for
these services
The importance of a network to integrate the work/resources of agencies
Next steps for moving forward with our goals for strengthening family child care
⧫Continue the work we began with the PLG to create a framework• Margaret and I asked our team members if they would consider continuing
our work so that we can take time to look deeper into the resources provided, have team meetings, and continue building a framework
⧫Collect data • Margaret is creating a survey
❖Ages of FCC providers, areas that are heavily FCC, how many children are served, what languages are spoken, what is their greatest needs to do their work
❖Creating a needs assessment
• Determine data that is needed with Quality Counts leadership
• Identify where we can get data→ licensing, resource & referral agencies, survey
⧫ Look into different FCC network models❖OUSD and San Francisco
❖What we have learned from other PLG teams
Massachusetts
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Team Members:
Saralinda Lobrose: Head Start and Early Learning Programs FCC System Education Manager. Former Co-Chair of Massachusetts Association of Early
Education and Care (MADCA) FCC Affiliates. Former FCC Educator.
Rosemary Hernandez: Regional Director Clarendon Early Education Services FCC System. Professional Development Instructor. Co-Chair MADCA FCC Affiliates.
Pam Roux: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) Workforce and Educational Technology Specialist. Focus includes implementation
of QRIS in MA and development of a competency-based Career Lattice.
Laurie Smith: Riverbend FCC Preschool Owner. FCC Educator since 1997, including 4 years as a Head Start FCC. Founded and facilitates North Quabbin
FCC Association. She has been both a System FCC and an Independent FCC. Serves on Mount Wachusett Community College Early Childhood Education
Advisory Board and has presented at classes there, helping students consider FCC as a career option.
Angela DiPaolo: Bethel Child Care Services Family Child Care System (and USDA Food Program) Field Director as well as a USDA Food Program. Former Co-Chair
of MADCA Affiliates and MADCA Board Member.
Pam Torres: Montachusett Opportunity Council FCC Component Director. Includes Head Start FCC. Co-Chair MADCA FCC Affiliates.
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Current status of FCC in MA:▪ Major changes to the field over past 8 years include –
increased stringency in licensing regulations, implementation of QRIS, new Head Start Performance Standards, and creation of a Union for FCC Educators.
▪ During this time numbers of licensed FCC Educators decreased by 20% throughout State.
▪ Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care is currently revising QRIS, creating a Career Lattice, incorporating the new CCDBG standards, and increasing coaching and mentoring opportunities for educators.
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Initial MA PLG Goals:▪ Continue to increase quality while simultaneously building
FCC Workforce
▪ Ensure FCC continues to be a strong option for MA families
▪ Incorporate and continue work already being done throughout the State to meet these goals
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
Goal Transition through PLG Process:▪ Create a clear foundation for our future work collaborating within our
State.
▪ Consider what data has been collected and what further data we need to understand FCC in MA.
▪ Request that the State obtain some specific data annually and keep all stakeholders informed.
▪ Examine research and measuring tools used for FCC nationwide
▪ Focus on recruiting and retaining new FCC programs by creating a handout on obstacles and recommendations for recruiting and retaining. Based on data collected in Assessment Tool and MA PLG survey.
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
▪ The Policy Assessment and Planning Tool helped our group focus and evolve our goals.
▪ Massachusetts has many data pools that are scattered that can be packaged together to understand how to strengthen FCC educators.
▪ Some data was missing, primarily what motivates people to stay in or leave FCC (we developed and conducted a survey to fill in some of these gaps)
▪ The attrition of FCC educators is a national issue.
▪ The usage of quality FCC Networks (systems) works to support educators.
▪ There are other funding opportunities that Massachusetts could be pursuing to support the field.
▪ There are unique and individualized support programs in other states that we could replicate in Massachusetts that connect community resources to upcoming FCC educators. These help the FCC educator as a business owner thrive and plan for the success of their business.
▪ The speakers and resources listed in our sessions supported the educator in their business practices, cultural backgrounds and with language supports when needed
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Massachusetts PLG taking action today!!We conducted a survey!!!
(results from one of our survey questions)
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COMMENTS FROM THE FIELD:
▪ The workload and stress has become very high. Long hours are just not worth the pay. Regulations are getting more and more stringent and children are often too regulated with safety so there is no risk involved which is needed for development. . . licensors interpret regulations how they see fit making it very hard to follow them. Despite having to do as much as or more than center based counter parts in many areas, FCC is still viewed as inferior
▪ After 28 years of providing family child care, I have found that the licensors have lost the word “family” and forgotten that we work from our homes...the regulations seem to be center based and hard to meet even for qualified seasoned family child care providers!!!
▪ Too much paperwork, so many regs, forcing you to be high level in the QRIS, Can't keep slots full, takes forever to fill a spot when one leaves. No benefits.....
▪ Long hours, immense amount of paperwork, unrealistic regulations, unannounced visits by different agencies. I plan to leave FCC for a different position in the field within the next five years.
Next steps for moving forward with our goals
for strengthening family child care
▪ Use information from the survey we developed and distributed to MA FCC Systems, Network groups, and FCC Educators. Though not a controlled group, we obtained some good insights from 77 responses (of which 14 were Systems or Networks representing approximately 10 to 50 Educators each). Of 63 individual Educators who responded, over 60% were considering or planning to leave the field within 5 years. Other demographic info from State studies indicates many educators are close to retirement age.
▪ Focus efforts on recruiting and retaining new FCC Educators (based on results above). By July 12th, 2018, develop info sheet on obstacles prospective FCC Educators face and recommendations for changes our State can make to overcome these obstacles.
▪ We’ve seen a recent uptake in concern and interest in the decline in FCC numbers. We need to capitalize on this and have MADCA, MA EEC, FCC Educators, FCC Systems, colleges, etc. collaborate to ensure FCC is a strong, high quality option for families throughout State.
Next steps for moving forward with our goals
for strengthening family child care
▪ Choose a few areas of the Assessment tool and request that the State gather info on those areas annually and make it available to all stakeholders.
▪ Consider how other States are utilizing FCC Systems/Networks. How are they funded? What supports do they offer? How do they building quality? Determine if there are resources that would be helpful to Massachusetts’ current FCC Systems.
Kansas
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▪ Child Care Aware® of Kansas
▪ Child Care Resource and Referral (Family Conservancy; Child Start; and Child Care Aware® of Eastern Kansas)
▪ Kansas Head Start Association
▪ Kansas Department for Children and Families (State CCDF Administrator)
▪ Kansas Department of Health and Environment Child Care Licensing
▪ Early Head Start Child Care Partnership Grantees
▪ Child Care Providers Coalition
▪ Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities
▪ Family Child Care
Team Members
Kami Cohorst, Child Care Aware® of Kansas
Peggy Kelly, Kansas Head Start Association
Judy Golden, Kansas Department for Children and Families
Lori Steelman, KDHE Child Care Licensing
Pam Black, Family Conservancy
Mary Williams, Family Conservancy
Brenda Schoen, Child Care Providers Coalition
Vicki Sutton, Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities
Kathi Barton, Family Child Care Provider
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
⧫Engage the Provider – Provide FCC providers with child care quality information and support using Head Start Standards as a guide.
⧫Increase Peer Support– Connect FCC providers with peers/mentors through PLGs to discuss goals, successes, opportunities and strategies for enhancing quality.
⧫Advocate for Change–Work with policymakers to strengthen the state’s child care tax credit to improve access to child care while also advocating for increased funding (scholarships/grants).
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
PLG Process▪ Opportunity for collaboration
▪ Challenges w/ bringing participants together
▪ Shifted Goals (merely brushed the surface)
Resources helped us think more strategically about:▪ Data Collection
▪ Communication (among partners, families and CCPs)
▪ Identify Gaps
Next steps for moving forward with our goals for strengthening family child care
Continue meeting and working on our action plans▪ More work to be done!
Strengthened communication▪ Established new relationships
▪ Opened the door to new opportunities
Support quality, availability & affordability▪ Cost of quality
▪ Culture/paradigm shift
▪ Landscape
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Team Members:
Our Team’s Goals or Priority Focus Areas For The Peer Learning Group
What We Have Learned from the Peer Learning Group
Next steps for moving forward with our goals for strengthening family child care
Your Thoughts?
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Thank you
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SURVEY
Child Trends
Michele Adams michele.adams@icf.com
Danielle Fuentes Johnson dfuentesjohnson@buildinitiative.org
2018 Strengthening Family Child Care Quality
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