2-110 - Home-Based Child Care as a Context for Supporting Children’s Development: Researching Providers, Programs, and Interventions

Session Type: Poster Symposium

Integrative Statement

Although research has established the potential buffering role of quality child care for vulnerable children, most has focused on center-based child care rather than home-based child care (HBC). Of the approximately 1.6 million children receiving federal subsidies for child care each month in 2011, 33% were in HBC (ACF 2011 Final Data Tables). Thus, HBC is an important, but understudied context. Research on the unique characteristics of HBC settings and providers could inform quality improvement initiatives such as state Quality Rating and Improvement Systems aimed at improving outcomes for low-income children. In this symposium, we bring together researchers who have been studying HBC across multiple levels. Three posters examine providers’ capacities to negotiate the complexities of their work and support children’s development. Two posters examine the quality of children’s experiences in HBC: one examines the language and literacy environments in relation to a QRIS, and another examines the efficacy of an intervention to improve quality among HBC providers. The final poster presents a new conceptual model for developing a measure of relationship-based quality improvement to support HBC providers. Each study’s results have clear policy implications and help articulate the complexities of HBC with implications for how to better support caregivers and the children in their care. The proposed symposium would provide a venue for the dissemination of these related studies with rich material appropriate for the interactivity possible during the integrative discussion that is part of a poster symposium.

Sub Unit

• School Readiness/Childcare

Chair

• Holli Ann Tonyan, California State University, Northridge

Individual Presentations

• 1. The Sustainability of Daily Routines in Family Child Care as Resilience in the Face of Difficult Working Conditions - Presenting Author: Holli Ann Tonyan, California State University, Northridge

• 2. Provider psychosocial wellbeing and use of supportive resources - Presenting Author: Rebecca A Swartz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Angela Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 3. Predicting caregiving sensitivity and responsiveness from a family child care provider’s attachment representations - Presenting Author: Diana D Schaack, San Diego State University; Jon Korfmacher, Erikson Institute

• 4. The Language and Literacy Environments of Family Child Care Programs Participating in a Quality Rating and Improvement System - Presenting Author: Martha J Buell, University of Delaware; Rena Hallam, Univ of Delaware; Myae Han, Univ of Delaware; Kaitlin Bargreen, Univ of Delaware; Alison Hooper, University of Delaware

• 5. Improving Quality with Mexican Immigrant Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care Providers - Presenting Author: Eva Marie Shivers, Indigo Cultural Center; Flora Farago, Arizona State University

• 6. Measuring relationship-based support to family child care providers: A conceptual model - Presenting Author: Juliet Sara Bromer, Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam; Jon Korfmacher, Erikson Institute