{"id":4104,"date":"2024-12-09T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:37:03","slug":"building-belonging-valuing-family-child-care-via-state-licensing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/building-belonging-valuing-family-child-care-via-state-licensing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Belonging: Valuing Family Child Care via State Licensing Systems","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Licensing is critical infrastructure in the child care system: Through licensing, family child care providers are publicly recognized as child care professionals. In recognition of the important impact of state licensing policy and practice on family child care, Home Grown brought together its first-ever Family Child Care Licensing Work Group. The Work Group consisted of family child care professionals who convened regularly to develop Home Grown\u2019s understanding of state licensing for family child care and develop recommendations for these systems. This report represents their work.<a href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/_resources\/building-belonging-valuing-family-child-care-via-state-licensing-systems\/\"><\/a><\/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\/licensing\/\">Learn more about the Work Group&#8217;s recommendations<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Licensing is critical infrastructure in the child care system: Through licensing, family child care providers are publicly recognized as child care professionals. In recognition of the important impact of state licensing policy and practice on family child care, Home Grown brought together its first-ever Family Child Care Licensing Work Group. The Work Group consisted of &#8230; <a title=\"Building Belonging: Valuing Family Child Care via State Licensing Systems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/building-belonging-valuing-family-child-care-via-state-licensing-systems\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Building Belonging: Valuing Family Child Care via State Licensing Systems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":3688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31,79,68],"resource-categories":[53,55,51,54,22],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-home-based-child-care","tag-networks","tag-policy","resource-categories-family-child-care-fcc","resource-categories-networks","resource-categories-policy","resource-categories-provider-resources","resource-categories-publication"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","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=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"resource-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-categories?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}