The Family Child Care Toolkit Licensing Project

In this collaboration with Creating Kids/The Children's Museum, All Our Kin reaches out to unlicensed caregivers, offering a series of boxes that give them a clear guide for becoming state-licensed family child care providers. Each box contains the necessary paperwork for each step in the process, as well as health and safety supplies such as a smoke detector, cabinet safety locks, and a fire extinguisher; educational supplies such as quality children's books, blocks, and art materials; and vouchers for first aid training.

Through the Toolkit Project, All Our Kin helps unlicensed and illegal caregivers meet health and safety standards, complete state licensing requirements, and become part of our professional community of child care providers. In this way, both the availability and the quality of care for New Haven's most vulnerable infants and toddlers are expanded and improved. At the same time, we are helping professionalize the female-dominated field of child care, and help providers make better lives for themselves, through increased revenues, a decrease in fear, and opportunities to join the wider community of early childhood education professionals.