What We’ve Learned So Far about the Thriving Providers Project in Los Angeles County
Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) providers occupy a unique and undervalued position in the child care landscape, caring for the youngest, most vulnerable children while facing some of the greatest financial instability of any caregiver type. The Los Angeles (LA) cohort experienced that instability in particularly acute form, navigating devastating wildfires and sustained immigration enforcement […]
Evaluation Report: What We Learned About the Thriving Providers Project in New York
A strong early care and education (ECE) system is foundational to both family stability and economic growth. Yet, the sector is under significant strain: many child care providers are facing financial insecurity and emotional hardship, making it difficult to sustain their work. In direct response to these nationwide experiences, Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers […]
Evaluation Report: What We Learned About the Thriving Providers Project in Philadelphia
A strong early care and education (ECE) system is foundational to both family stability and economic growth. Yet, the sector is under significant strain: many child care providers are facing financial insecurity and emotional hardship, making it difficult to sustain their work. In direct response to these nationwide experiences, Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers […]
Abundancia y Soluciones Políticas Intersectoriales
Autora: Alexandra R. Patterson En nuestra labor en Home Grown, buscamos constantemente oportunidades para aprender de otras disciplinas mientras colaboramos con líderes del sector de cuidado infantil en entornos domésticos (HBCC, por sus siglas en inglés) para impulsar soluciones políticas que ayuden a construir un sistema de cuidado infantil más inclusivo; un sistema que valore […]
Abundance and Cross-Sector Policy Solutions
Author: Alexandra R. Patterson In our work at Home Grown, we regularly seek opportunities to learn from other disciplines as we partner with home-based child care (HBCC) leaders to advance policy solutions that build a more inclusive child care system that values and supports HBCC as a quality option for families and children. So often, […]
What the Data Show: Direct Cash Transfers and the Home-Based Child Care Workforce
Author: Erica Vansteenis, Stanford Center on Early Childhood Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) in response to the stark realities facing home-based child care (HBCC) providers, who are central to how families across the United States access child care. HBCC providers operate under conditions of persistent financial instability: income that fluctuates with enrollment, […]
Lo que muestran los datos: Transferencias de Efectivo Directas y la fuerza laboral del Cuidado Infantil en el Hogar
Autora: Erica Vansteenis, Stanford Center on Early Childhood Home Grown lanzó el Thriving Providers Project (TPP) en respuesta a la dura realidad que enfrentan las proveedoras de cuidado infantil en el hogar (HBCC, por sus siglas en inglés), quienes desempeñan un papel fundamental en el acceso de las familias de todo Estados Unidos a servicios […]
Early Childhood: A Newsletter from The Hechinger Report
“In the last half of 2025, Gertrudis Espinal watched as, one by one, children left the child care program she runs out of her home in the Bronx. The city had run out of voucher money that her families needed to pay for care, and by February, she only had seven children enrolled – half […]
What We Learned About the Thriving Providers Project in New York City
In this final 18-month brief, we share what we’ve learned about providers’ experiences with TPP and the impacts of direct cash transfers in New York City.
What We Are Learning About the Thriving Providers Project Across Participating Cohorts
In this cross-site brief, we draw on data across the four pilot locations (Colorado, Philadelphia, New York City, and Los Angeles) to identify shared patterns and site-specific conditions shaping provider experiences.
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