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. through an equity lens.
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 equitable access to and stability of high-quality early care and education for families and children.
The PKFCC project is a collaboration between Erikson Institute’s Home-Based Child Care Research group, University of Delaware’s Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Equity Research Action Coalition. The work is generously funded by the Foundation for Child Development and Home Grown.
Mixed-delivery PreK systems that authentically include FCC programs:
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Including family child care (FCC) educators in mixed-delivery PreK systems is essential to achieving equity for children, families, educators, and communities.
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 will 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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Rapid-response data collection with PreK administrators will result in a series of briefs focused on strategies and approaches to equitable design and implementation of PreK in FCC.
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Two briefs will be focused on FCC educator perspectives, including who they are and their experiences delivering public PreK.
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Project resources, implementation tools, and other information will be prepared to facilitate national learning about PreK in FCC.
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Examples: See real-life examples of strategies, approaches, and tools used to implement PreK in FCC around the country.