Family child care is an important part of the overall early care and education system that supports children and families. Like any other early education program, they need unique supports and strategies to promote quality care, family engagement, school readiness, and professional growth and development. Explore available resources to support the family child care workforce.

Strategies to Strengthen Family Child Care

The Strengthening Family Child Care series offers strategies for engaging providers and supporting the accessibility and sustainability of family child care programs. Review the available webinars and resources:

• Strategies for Strengthening Family Child Care:
  • Using Data to Inform Policy Change
  • Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers
• Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers in the United States [PDF, 1.2MB]

Strategies for Outreach to All Families

The Family Outreach series explores information and strategies for outreach and engagement of all families. Watch this webinar for ways implement an effective outreach approach:

• Strategies for Outreach to All Families: Overview

Strategies to Promote Quality Care

Family child care is a growing sector in the early care and education field. Discover effective approaches that encourage provider participation in quality improvement efforts. Find more information on supports for quality care, quality improvement initiatives, and regulatory systems:

• Engaging Family Child Care Providers in Quality Improvement Systems
• Resources About Supports and Systems for Improving the Quality of Family Child Care
• Early Care and Education Program Characteristics: Effects on Expenses and Revenues

Strategies to Support the Family Child Care Workforce

Early childhood professionals who work with families need to build genuine partnerships with them to promote quality care for all children. Family child care providers provide care in mixed-age group environments that require specific supports and opportunities to grow as professionals. Find more information about supporting the family child care workforce, including state-level recruitment and retention policies and support for cultural and linguistic responsiveness:

• Resources to Support Family Child Care Providers Who Support Infants and Toddlers
• Family Child Care: Supporting Quality
• Voices from the Field: Promising Family Child Care Strategies to Support Children in Mixed-Age Groups
• Cultural Perspectives in Caregiving: Applying Relationship-Based Practices