Our nation’s child care system is inadequate to meet the needs of working families, with affordable, quality care for infants and toddlers in short supply. All Our Kin has the solution: a highly successful, data-driven model for training, supporting and sustaining family child care educators as home-based providers who are most likely to care for children aged 0 to 3.
Today, we directly serve nearly 1,100 family child care providers, who in turn educate and care for over 6,000 children in Connecticut and New York City. We have also partnered with local organizations in 23 states across the U.S. and in Washington, D.C. to strengthen their engagement and practice with family child care providers.
All Our Kin transforms child care quality. Our providers score, on average, over 50 percent higher on research-based measures of quality than non-All Our Kin providers.
All Our Kin generates economic returns. For each dollar invested in our work, we see $15-$20 in economic benefits to the region.
All Our Kin builds income for FCC educators. Within one year of completing All Our Kin’s licensing or business programs, the majority of providers increase earnings by $5,000 or more, and 81 percent of providers say their quality of life has improved.
All Our Kin increases child care supply. Between 2000 and 2011, Connecticut lost nearly 34 percent of its family child care programs; in New Haven, thanks to All Our Kin, the number of licensed family child care programs increased by 74 percent.
All Our Kin improves child outcomes. Children in the care of All Our Kin providers demonstrate better social emotional development than both their non-All Our Kin peers and the national norm, and significantly outperform these groups on math and language assessments.
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This publication presents a framework for how state and local leaders can create the conditions for family child care to thrive in their communities, thereby increasing the supply, quality, and sustainability of child care options that meet the needs of all families. We offer concrete strategies--at the intersection of policy and practice--across six domains. By working across these six domains, we believe that we can build a comprehensive early child care and education system that values family child care and works for all children and families--including those that face the greatest barriers to accessing care.
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In 2017, All Our Kin partnered with researchers from Yale University to explore the relationship between staffed family child care networks and health and safety compliance in family child care programs. The research found that participation in All Our Kin’s staffed Family Child Care Network is associated with increased health and safety regulatory compliance in family child care programs. These findings indicate that investing in a strength-based, holistic approach to supporting quality through staffed family child care networks is an effective way to increase access to safe, healthy child care options for children and families.
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This AOK landscape report highlights opportunities and challenges around family child care in New Jersey. The report notes struggles faced by families and family child care programs and exciting efforts underway to strengthen family child care in the state. The report concludes with recommendations aimed at helping New Jersey create the conditions necessary for family child care, and the children and families it serves, to thrive.
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This study explores licensed family child care providers’ perspectives on the benefits and challenges of partnering with an agency to deliver Early Head Start services. Qualitative interviews revealed family child care providers believe that benefits of partnership with Early Head Start include: increased quality of care to children and families, stabilized income and strengthened business viability, and ongoing supervision.
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This report shares the findings of Phase Two of All Our Kin's evaluation by leading family child care researcher Toni Porter. The research shows that children enrolled with All Our Kin family child care providers performed significantly better on math and language assessments than children enrolled in non-All Our Kin programs. Additional research is needed to isolate All Our Kin as the key factor in improving child outcomes in these programs.
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A recent evaluation by researcher Toni Porter finds that family child care providers in All Our Kin's network score significantly higher on research-based measures of quality than similar providers who are unaffiliated with All Our Kin.
This research was also recently published in an article in the March 2016 edition of Zero to Three, the scholarly journal distributed by the national organization ZERO TO THREE.
If you've read the report and would like to know more about the analysis behind it, you can access the full technical version.
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This new report from Ascend at the Aspen Institute identifies All Our Kin’s efforts to train and support early childhood educators as one example of a “promising approach” that creates opportunities for parents and children to thrive.
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A new report from Morrison Downs Associates, Inc. commissioned by the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood underscores All Our Kin's impact while examining current efforts and future opportunities to support and enhance the quality of family child care across the state.
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Staffed family child care networks like All Our Kin are "uniquely positioned to strengthen and improve FCC programs in order for infants and toddlers to thrive in quality care," according to Zero to Three.
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The Family Child Care Tool Kit Licensing Program delivers significant economic benefits to both family child care providers and the New Haven region, according to a study conducted by the University of Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis.
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Yale University Art Gallery highlights All Our Kin in the latest issue of their Spring 2021 magazine. Through workshops on storytelling with art, visual literacy, play-based learning, and art making, Yale University Art Gallery and All Our Kin partner with family child care educators to infuse their teaching practices with new and creative ideas.
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