Family and Relative Care
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Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements
Description: The child care data presented in the detailed tables was collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and comes from the fourth interview of the 20010 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Information collected on child care through SIPP has evolved over the years to include comprehensive data on child care use, cost, and receipt of government assistance. Data is available back to 1985.
– General Information –
Children Cared for by Relatives: What Do We Know about Their Well-Being?
Author: Billing, Amy (1 more by this author); Katherine Kortenkamp; Jennifer Ehrle
Description: This research brief examines the well-being of children living in kinship care. This study focuses on behavioral and emotional well-being, school and activity experiences, interaction with adults and physical health. Also available in PDF.
Grandparents and Kin Raising Children 
Author: Hanson, Laurie
Description: Over the past decade there has become a growing trend of grandparents becoming the legal guardians or primary care givers for their grandchildren. Many of these grandparents may feel some resentment towards their absent adult children because their dreams of retirement and relaxation are now lost. Many difficulties and problems may accompany raising their grandchildren and they may need to seek out support groups and services in order for them to obtain needed financial and emotional support as they are raising their grandchildren as their own.
KITH and KIN - Informal Child Care: Highlights from Recent Research
Author: Brown-Lyons, Melanie; Jean Layzer; Anne Robertson
Description: The purpose of this document is to summarize what the available research tells
us about informal child care, and to identify significant gaps in knowledge.
Published articles and reviews, research reports, and other literature were examined to provide answers to questions regarding this type of child care.
Rural Families Choose Home-Based Child Care for their Preschool-Aged Children
Author: Smith, Kristin (1 more by this author)
Description: This policy brief discusses the child care choices of rural families. Although less prevalent than relative care, the use of informal non-related care providers for preschoolers is more common in rural communities than in urban areas. In sum, rural families choose home-based child care in the form of relatives or informal
non-related care providers to care for their preschoolers more often than organized care facilities.
Supporting Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregivers: Findings From a Survey of State Policies
Author: Porter, Toni (1 more by this author); Shannon M Kearns
Description: This research focused on enhancing the understanding of the context in which kith and kin caregivers provide child care and to stimulate discussion about approaches for improving the quality of care that these caregivers offer. The study focused on how states define home-based care that is exempt from regulations for family child care, the kinds of requirements that states impose on license-exempt home-based caregivers who provide care for subsidized children, and the types of special initiatives, if any, that states fund to improve the quality of care that these caregivers offer to children.
Supporting Kinship Families: What State Policymakers Can Do
Description: This webcast brings together national experts and state officials to discuss the benefits that kinship care affords children as well as examples of how leaders in the states are supporting kinship families. This link will take you to the archived webcast and links to supporting materials provided for the participants. The webcast was supported by the National Governor’s Association and Casey Family Programs.
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Guidelines for Early Learning in Child Care Home Settings
Description: Recognizing that many children receive their early care and education in home-based settings, the CA Dept. of Education developed Guidelines for Early Learning in Child Care Home Settings specifically for family child care and exempt-care providers. This document covers the same topics as those in the Prekindergarten Guidelines (school and center based early learning guidelines), but it also addresses the specific concerns that home-based providers face every day as they strive to nurture and teach the children in their care. Additionally, it addresses the reality that many family child care and license-exempt providers serve infants and toddlers side by side with preschool-age children.
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Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start
Author: Paulsell, Diane; Debra Mekos; Renee Nogales; Patti Banghart; Patricia Del Grosso
Description: This news brief provides an overview of The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, funded by the Head Start Bureau in 2004, that supports the quality of care that kith and kin caregivers provide to infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs. This brief describes the early implementation experiences of the pilot projects based on visits to sites after one year of operation, as well as information on the characteristics of enrolled children, families, and caregivers.
Author: Hirschy, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This brief article gives parents suggestions for working out a child care arrangement with a relative as caregiver. (Note: This resource is also available in Spanish as "Cuando los Familiares Proporcionan Sus Cuidados de Guarderia Infantil" at http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/sp.cuandfamil.html.)
– Research –
Author: Layzer, Jean; Brown-Lyons, Melanie; Goodson, Barbara D.
Description: This is the executive summary of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, a ten-year research effort designed to provide federal, state and local policy makers with information on the effects of federal, state and local policies and programs on child care at the community level, and on the employment and child care decisions of low-income families. It also provides insights into the characteristics and functioning of family child care, a type of care frequently used by low-income families, and the experiences of parents and their children with this form of care. Full report at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/cc/nsc_low_income/reports/care_home/care_home.pdf
Children Cared for by Relatives: What Do We Know about Their Well-Being?
Author: Billing, Amy (1 more by this author); Katherine Kortenkamp; Jennifer Ehrle
Description: This research brief examines the well-being of children living in kinship care. This study focuses on behavioral and emotional well-being, school and activity experiences, interaction with adults and physical health. Also available in PDF.
Identifying Profiles of Quality in Home-Based Child Care
Author: Forry, Nicole (2 more by this author); Kathryn Tout; Rebecca Starr; Shana Simkin; Iheoma Iruka; Donna Bryant; Julia Torquati; Amy Susman-Stillman; Kristen Kainz
Description: The purpose of this research brief is to provide information that can be used to target and guide content for professional development efforts designed for home-based child care providers. To do this, home-based providers who participated in a large multi-state study were grouped into three quality categories according to their scores on observational measures of teaching and interaction, tone/discipline, provisions for health, instructional supports for literacy, and caregiver sensitivity.
They also examined how providers in the three groups differed in their professional characteristics, their attitudes and supports, and the composition and characteristics of their home-based care settings.
Author: Knox, Virginia; Ellen K. Scott; Andrew S. London
Description: This policy brief describes research which examined the work and child care patterns of low-income families. It discusses the fact that families may find child care subsidy programs unhelpful and issues associated with informal child care.