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PreK in Family Child Care Project (PKFCC)

The PKFCC project examines strategies for implementation of public pre-kindergarten (PreK) in family child care (FCC) settings across states and localities in the U.S.

 

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Contributors
  • Juliet Bromer , Principal Investigator, Erikson Institute
  • Rena Hallam , Co-PI, University of Delaware
  • Jason Hustedt , Co-PI, University of Delaware
  • Iheoma Iruka , Co-PI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Samantha Melvin , Co-Investigator, Erikson Institute
  • Patricia Molloy , Research Manager, Erikson Institute
  • Leanett Reinoso , Research Assistant, Erikson Institute
  • Jenille Morgan , Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Annette Pic , Limited Term Researcher, University of Delaware
  • Susan Lewis , Graduate Research Assistant, University of Delaware
  • Adrienne Briggs , PKFCC Educator, Lil’ Bits Family Child Care Home, PHLpreK (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Anny Gonzalez , PKFCC Educator, Casa Maky Montessori, ASPIRE PreK Program (Maryland)
  • Kissha Ballard , PKFCC Educator, Kissha’s Little Ones Child Care LLC, Voluntary Prekindergarten (Florida)

PreK in Family Child Care Project

Summary

The PKFCC project uses a rapid response approach designed to both disseminate study findings about implementation strategies and facilitate cross-state learning and sharing about successes and challenges of implementing PreK in FCC.

Long-term goals for the study include increasing the numbers of states and localities that include FCC as part of their mixed delivery child care systems and current/future PreK implementation plans. Expansion of PreK to meaningfully include FCC is a promising strategy for supporting the FCC workforce and for increasing access to and stability of high-quality early care and education for families and children.

The PKFCC project is a collaboration between Erikson Institute, University of Delaware, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The work is generously funded by the Foundation for Child Development and Home Grown

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Products and Resources

 

Focus groups and interviews with PreK site administrators and staff, document review of current PreK initiatives, and a survey of FCC professionals who offer PreK yield a quarterly series of rapid response policy briefs and a web-based depository of implementation tools for PreK administrators seeking to implement a mixed-delivery approach to PreK expansion that includes FCC settings.

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Policy Implementation Strategies

Rapid-response data collection with PreK administrators resulting in a series of four briefs focused on strategies and approaches to design and implementation of PreK in FCC.

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FCC Educator Perspectives

This brief focuses on FCC educator perspectives, including who they are and their experiences delivering public PreK.

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Resources and Tools

Project resources, implementation tools, and other information to facilitate national learning about PreK in FCC.

 

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State, County, and City Examples

Examples: See real-life examples of strategies, approaches, and tools used to implement PreK in FCC around the country. Updating regularly!

PKFCC Partner logo ; Erikson Institute Home-Based Child Care Research , University of Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood, Equity Research Action Coalition | UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

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