{"id":4102,"date":"2021-06-28T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:22:12","slug":"resources-for-building-comprehensive-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/resources-for-building-comprehensive-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Building Comprehensive Networks","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated the need for child care as infrastructure. As families juggled work, job loss, and distance learning, all while taking care of children, we\u2019ve seen something grow in America: the reliance on, respect for, and recognition of home-based child care (HBCC). Yet HBCC remains woefully under-resourced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now as federal relief dollars begin to flow to the states and additional legislation is on the horizon, our country has the resources to build lasting infrastructure in the form of&nbsp;<strong>comprehensive networks<\/strong>&nbsp;to support HBCC providers and the families they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are comprehensive networks for home-based child care providers?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Comprehensive networks are the connective tissue that joins individual home-based providers to each other and to system infrastructure, including funding and policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/building-comprehensive-networks\/\">Learn more about comprehensive networks<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated the need for child care as infrastructure. As families juggled work, job loss, and distance learning, all while taking care of children, we\u2019ve seen something grow in America: the reliance on, respect for, and recognition of home-based child care (HBCC). Yet HBCC remains woefully under-resourced. Now as federal relief dollars begin &#8230; <a title=\"Resources for Building Comprehensive Networks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/resources-for-building-comprehensive-networks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Resources for Building Comprehensive Networks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[31,79],"resource-categories":[58,65,53,52,55,51],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-resources","tag-home-based-child-care","tag-networks","resource-categories-comprehensive-services","resource-categories-emergency-response","resource-categories-family-child-care-fcc","resource-categories-family-friend-and-neighbor-ffn","resource-categories-networks","resource-categories-policy"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"resource-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-categories?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}