In selecting our participants, we seek out a very specific population: intelligent, creative, loving women who have been and continue to be the backbone of their families; women who began having babies in their teens and for that reason lack educational credentials and work history; women who have been unwilling or unable to take jobs that will interfere with their commitments to their children, grandchildren, and members of their extended families.

This is the population many experts regard as the "hardest to serve." All Our Kin takes a different view: we believe that these women have the capacity to be truly extraordinary day care providers and that this occupation will allow them to meet their obligations to their families--that our training will, in fact, make them better parents while freeing them to participate in the workforce.