Title: The Essentials Providing High-Quality Child Care
Marie L. Masterson and Lisa M. Ginet
Description: A very practical guide for family child care educators. " Family child care homes are a vital part of child care, serving nearly 3 million children in the United States. This book lays the groundwork family child care providers need to run a successful program in a warm, welcoming setting for children and their families."
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/books/essentials-family-child-care
Linda J. Armstrong
Description: "This book is written for those of you who operate a family child care in your own home. It challenges you to set aside center-based notions of what a child care setting should include and helps you to think more deeply about the real advantages of providing child care in your family's home setting."
https://www.redleafpress.org/Family-Child-Care-Homes-Creative-Spaces-for-Children-to-Learn-P351.aspx
Title: Look and Cook for Family Child Care
Partners in Nutrition & The Chef Marshall O'Brien Group
Description: "This Step-by-step guide is a great solution for any busy child care program wanting to ensure compliance with USDA Food Program while minimizing the burden on staff and preparing food children will actually enjoy. Every one of the 160 includes crediting for the latest CACFP guidelines for school all school-age children, photos of each step in the preparation process, a four-week meal pattern with unique recipes for each season, and recipes scaled t6 serving and easily adaptable."
https://www.redleafpress.org/Look-and-Cook-for-Family-Child-Care-Homes-P1560.aspx
Title: QRIS: Empowering Family Child Care Providers as Leaders
Jennifer Cortez, Rena A. Hallam
Description: Summarizing tools to support family child care providers, this article encourages them to embrace the important role they play as advocates for early childhood care and education. "I am a teacher. I didn't see myself as one before, but I do now, and that gives me the confidence to do many things - hold parent conferences, record observations, do assessments, and plan lessons and events for the children and their families." -Family Child Care Provider
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/sep2016/qris-empowering-childcare-providers
Title: What I Wish I Had Packed for the Journey of Becoming a Family Child Care Provider
Sonja Crum Knight
Description: This article provides important suggestions and tools to support family child care professionals on their journey to build a successful program.
Title: DAP: Recommendations for Schools Family Child Care Homes are Other Program Settings
NAEYC
Description: A very practical guide for family child care educators. " Family child care homes are a vital part of child care, serving nearly 3 million children in the United States. This book lays the groundwork family child care providers need to run a successful program in a warm, welcoming setting for children and their families."
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/position-statements/dap/recommendations-schools-families
Title: National Association for Family Child Care
Description: "The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) is the only national professional; association dedicated to promoting high-quality early childhood experiences in the unique environment of family child care programs."
Title: Family Child Care Homes
Description: This site provides tips for families and descriptions of Family Child Care settings.
https://www.childcare.gov/index.php/consumer-education/family-child-care-homes
Title: NAEYC Blog
Description: The NAEYC blog aims to increase general awareness and engage the public in thoughtful discussion around topics and themes related to early childhood education. We share NAEYC initiatives and explore what’s new, upcoming, timely, or topical in the early childhood field.