Home Grown – Home Grown Child Care

Where the Climate Crisis Meets Child Care: HBCC Provider Experiences Amid Natural Disasters

Home Grown — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:49:22 +0000

In recent years, severe climate and weather disasters in the U.S. have become more frequent. In July 2025, heat waves, wildfires, and the onset of hurricane season are once again top of mind, particularly as the start of 2025 has been one of the hottest on record. Our thoughts are also with the communities in Texas affected by the recent devastating flash flooding. Climate disasters can have…

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Partnering for Resilience: Child Care Support Amid LA’s Flames

Home Grown — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:19:17 +0000

On the morning of Jan. 7, the Palisades Fire ignited in Los Angeles, burning over a thousand acres of land within hours. Later that evening, the Eaton Fire ignited in the communities of Altadena and Pasadena. These were the first of 10 fires that blazed in January in Los Angeles County, with the Eaton and Palisades fires ranking as the first and second most destructive wildfires, respectively…

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Every Day Is Father’s Day at Carleigh’s Place Child Care

Home Grown — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 01:39:22 +0000

Stephen Cutty, like many home-based child care providers, started his business, Carleigh’s Place Child Care, in part so that he could care for his own child at home while also earning an income. Prior to 2018, he’d been working as a union organizer and dating a woman who, he later learned, was struggling with substance abuse disorder. When his daughter, Carleigh, was born, he intervened to ensure…

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The Case for Home-Based: Why States Should Consider Inclusion of Family Child Care Homes in Mixed Delivery Pre-K Systems

Home Grown — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:42:50 +0000

It’s a typical winter morning, and I’m scrambling to pack up the amount of pureed foods and bottles I estimate my 8-month-old will eat during the next nine hours, while simultaneously soothing my 3-year-old’s outburst over the outfit choice for the day. Amidst the usual chaos, we manage to get out the door and arrive at the preschool, miraculously only five minutes late. Once there…

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Healthy-Me Practices for Mental Wellness

Home Grown — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:54:25 +0000

Taking care of infants and toddlers while simultaneously managing a small business requires compassion, an accountant’s shrewd business sense, creativity, and frugality in equal measure—not to mention, expertise in child development and infant nutrition. That’s the plate-spinning-while-riding-a-skateboard talent family child care providers must master in order to thrive. Add to these requirements…

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Making Sense of This Moment: How Is Home-Based Child Care Doing 100 Days Into the Trump Administration?

Home Grown — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:14:10 +0000

In the first 100 days of the Trump Administration, we saw sweeping changes to many aspects of American policy and many more have been proposed. This is a time of major change and great uncertainty. We know that many home-based child care providers, families, advocates, researchers, and others in the field are feeling the direct impacts of these actions and fear the forthcoming actions.

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A Love letter and a Wake-Up Call’: Documentary Films About Child Care Warm Hearts and Spark Action

Home Grown — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:46:16 +0000

Two recent documentaries are changing the narrative about child care work and inspiring policy and regulatory reform to improve wages for providers and access for families who need child care. One scene in Make a Circle, a documentary about California child care workers from directors Jen Bradwell and Todd Boekelheide, features three little girls engaged in imaginary play.

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Supporting HBCC With Tax Policy

Home Grown — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:43:57 +0000

Throughout the United States, there’s an emphasis on taxes right now, not just because it’s currently income tax season, but also because of the opportunity to rewrite federal tax policy. This year, President Donald Trump’s 2018 major tax code overhaul is set to expire and conversations and advocacy will be taking place to ensure that the most vulnerable populations can benefit most from new…

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Home Grown Values Sustain Positive Change in the Years Ahead

Home Grown — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:04:48 +0000

“In times of incredible uncertainty,” says Home Grown Executive Director Natalie Renew, “it is reassuring to have values that can guide you.” For just that purpose, Home Grown’s new values statement underscores the organization’s commitment to reimagining child care policies and systems through collaboration with home-based providers and the communities they serve. “The hardest thing in a moment…

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Uplifting Community Cultural Wealth in Black Communities

Home Grown — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:35:05 +0000

Throughout the history of the U.S., Black and brown communities have relied on community cultural wealth to survive and even thrive in the face of systemic oppression. Community cultural wealth describes the knowledge and care shared within communities. This is often represented by how members of the community affirm one another and pull together resources when facing obstacles or challenges.

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