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Supply Building Strategies to Meet the Needs of Family Child Care
Mary Beth Jackson, Sr. TA Liaison Leigh Ann Bryan, TA Liaison National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
Agenda
• Why Family Child Care (FCC)?
• Why is support needed for FCC?
• Strategies
• State examples
• Discussion
• Resource sharing
Session Objectives
Participants will:
• Identify strategies, challenges, and opportunities for FCC supply building
• Describe and explore staffed child care networks and shared services for family child care homes
• Identify strategies and resources to effectively support FCC
Why Family Child Care? • One in two children under age 5 in non-parental child care arrangements are cared
for in some home-based child care setting (Laughlin, 2013)
• Close to 4 million home-based providers care for 7 million children ages 0-5; most providers are unpaid, unlisted (NSECE, 2015).
• Infants and toddlers more likely to be cared for in home-based child care (Johnson, 2005; NSECE, 2013)
• Low-income families with non-standard work hours more likely to rely on home-based child care (Johnson, 2005)
• Over a quarter of children in subsidized child care are in FCC (Office of Child Care, 2014) – 30% of infants in subsidized child care are in FCC
– 27% of toddlers in subsidized child care are in FCC
Why Family Child Care?
What do we know about FCC?
• More infants and toddlers than in centers – preferred choice of many parents with children under the age of three
• Low-income families with non-standard hours use this care
• About one-third of children in subsidized child care are in HBCC
• Offers care for mixed age groups
• Neighborhood-based, can offer care for families of same culture and language
What do we know about FCC? (cont)
• All children from one family can attend a FCC home
• Caregivers work long hours, for low payment rates
• Caregivers can feel isolated and unsupported (lack of access to resources and information)
• Decline in children cared for in licensed FCC: Children receiving subsidies and the number of licensed or regulated FCC providers
• Other……..
National FCC Data Average Monthly Percentage of Children Served by Provider Types
Source: Office of Child Care website, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/data
National FCC Data Number of FCC Providers Receiving CCDF Funds
Source: Office of Child Care website, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/data
Reauthorization
Requires Lead Agencies to:
• Implement strategies for building supply of quality care
• Prioritize investments to increase access to high-quality care in areas of poverty and unemployment that are under supplied
• Develop and implement strategies to strengthen business practices
Reauthorization and Supply Building
Specifies supply building for:
• children in underserved areas
• infants and toddlers
• children with disabilities
• children who receive care during non‐traditional hours
Assessing the Need
How do you know what services you need and where
you need them?
Do your homework first!
Build the Case with Data Now What????
• Engage partners and communities to identify appropriate strategies
– Community forums
– Partner Engagement
– Mapping to avoid duplication
• Monitor supply building through ongoing evaluation to assess progress towards goals
Supply Building and Support Strategies for FCC
• Grants and Contracts
• Appropriate payment rates
• Staffed family child care networks
• Shared services
• Hubs and community partnerships
• Outreach and recruitment
• Professional development and technical assistance
• Others?
State Plans – Supply Building Strategies for Certain Populations
Infants and Toddlers Children with Disabilities
Non-traditional Hours
Homeless Children
Grants or Contracts 23 12 7 11
FCC Networks 12 7 8 5
Start-up Funding 10 6 6 3
TA Support 41 34 23 24
Recruitment 23 20 18 17
Tiered Payment Rates 32 30 14 6
Other 27 19 17 16
Grants and Contracts
• Increase the supply of quality care for vulnerable populations
• Promote access to and help maintain enrollments in higher-quality settings by purchasing spaces for subsidy-eligible families
• Allows for establishing higher-quality and performance standards for contracted facilities to make lasting investments to improve provider services and practices
Appropriate Payment Rates
• Start-up funding
• Tiered payment rates
• Higher rates for non-traditional care and serving children with disabilities
• Rewards/Grants for higher quality standards
Family Child Care Networks • Educational Mentorship
• Professional Development
• Leadership Opportunities
• Advocacy
• Home Visits
• Sharing of Books, Materials, and Curriculum Ideas
• Monthly Meetings, Workshops, and Trainings
Shared Services
• A membership or multi-site ECE organization, through which shared services are provided
• Members may include center- and/or home-based ECE providers
• Common goals include strengthening business and educational leadership
– Sharing of staff, information, and resources
• Design, range, and entry points vary
Source: Opportunities Exchange Web site, www.opportunities-exchange.org
Introduction
Overview
• Family Child Care In Oregon –2,919 programs, 690 in state QRIS
above licensing
• Geography – FCC the only option in rural and frontier
parts of Oregon – FCC is the main choice for families who
have been traditionally underrepresented
Supply Versus Demand in Child Care
Supply Versus Demand in Child Care
Focused Child Care Networks Goal
To increase the supply of high quality child care with communities that have been traditionally underrepresented
and/or experienced poverty
Focused Child Care Networks Design
• Uses the QRIS as the framework for quality improvement
• Early Learning Hubs receive the funds to support the networks (20 networks across 16 Hubs)
• Child care programs within priority communities is the focus of recruitment
• Use a cohort model to support programs with quality improvement
• Each network is staffed with a .5 FTE
• Programs receive enhanced funding to help with quality improvements
CURRENT TA AND MONITORING
FUTURE TA AND MONITORING
Current Questions
• Current Contracted Slots
– Head Start
– Oregon Program of Quality
Win for Providers
Win for Parents
Win for Children
• Future
– Shared Services
– Head Start Contracts
– Focused Child Care Networks Contracts
– Infant & Toddler Care
Win for Providers
Win for Parents
Win for Children
Equity
Lens
Introduction
PA’s Current Context
• 2, 253 Family Child Care Homes
– 22% participating in Keystone STARS
– 94 FCCH at STAR 3 or 4
• Transitioning FCCHs from Registered to Certified Status
• Opportunities in our QRIS Re-visioning
– How is it possible to make CQI meaningful and engaging for our FCCHs?
– How is it possible to allow FCCH to own the process?
– How is it possible to support access to quality for all children served in home-
based settings?
– How is it possible to best support our most vulnerable children and the
providers who serve them?
PA’s Alliance Building
Escaleras Pilot Program - Southeast Regional Key
– Supporting Friend/Neighbor (F/N) providers from immigrant communities in becoming City of Philadelphia licensed and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania certified as Family Child Care Homes
• 9 Sessions including professional development and coaching
• Mock inspections of participant’s homes to prepare for a Certification visit
• Support to group to become a Family Child Care Network in the future
PA’s Alliance Building Homewood Child Care Alliance- Pittsburgh AEYC
-Supporting home-based providers in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood through provider driven, high-quality, reflective professional development
• All professional development delivered on-site at The Early Learning Hub
• Reflective time built into each session and supported through monthly meetings with coaches
• Support in the CQI process for program assessment
• Providers design and deliver content to one another and at conferences – PAEYC Annual Conference-Everyday Interactions Matter session
– UnConference-Get Dirty session in partnership with a USDA Farm FCCH
Resources and Links Federal Resources • Office of Child Care’s Family Child Care Resources List: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/occ/resource/family-child-care-resources-
list• Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation. (2015, April). Who is providing home-based early care and education? [Factsheet].
Retrieved from : http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/hb_providers_fact_sheet_toopre_041715_508.pdf• OCC Information Memorandum on Supply Building Strategies: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/resource/im-2015-02• Ramsburg, D., Bromer, J., Saterfield, L., McMannis, D., & Hallam, R. (2015). Strategies for building a supply of high-quality infant and
toddler care. STAM. Retrieved fromhttps://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/public/strategies_for_building_a_supply_of_high- quality_infant_and_toddler_care.pdf
Family Child Care Networks • Bromer, J., Van Haitsma, M., & Daley, K. (2009). Staffed support networks and quality in family child care: Findings from the Family
Child Care Network Impact Study (Executive Summary). Chicago, IL: Erikson Institute. Retrieved from http://www.erikson.edu/wp-content/uploads/Full_report_web.pdf
• Zero to Three. (2012). Staffed family child care networks: A strategy to enhance quality care for infants and toddlers. Retrieved fromhttp://qrisnetwork.org/resource/2012/staffed-family-child-care-networks-strategy- enhance-quality-care-infants-and-toddlers
Shared Services • Shared Services Central (includes Shared Services Startup Kit): http://opportunities-exchange.org/shared-services-central/• http://opportunities-exchange.org/alliances-in-action/
