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 […]
Apoyando a las personas cuidadoras que sostienen a nuestras comunidades
Visión y Compromiso, en colaboración con Home Grown y First 5 LA, lanzó a principios de 2025 la primera demostración en la Costa Oeste del proyecto Thriving Providers Project (TPP), que entrega transferencias directas de efectivo a las personas cuidadoras familiar, amistad y vecino (FFN, Family, Friend and Neighbor en inglés). Este año, en apoyo directo a las comunidades afectadas por los incendios de enero del 2025, TPP anunció la Cohorte II con un total de 25 cuidadoras FFN.
Supporting the Caregivers Who Support Our Communities
Visión y Compromiso, in collaboration with national funder collective Home Grown and First 5 LA, launched in early 2025 the first West Coast demonstration of the Thriving Providers Project (TPP), which gives direct cash payments to Friend, Family, and Neighbor (FFN) caregivers. Today, in direct support of fire-impacted communities, TTP announced Cohort II with a total of 25 FFN caregivers.
Keeping the Doors Open: How a Wage Boost Is Changing Life for Family Child Care Providers
Author: Anne Vilen “Family child care providers are undervalued all over the nation, even though our work is in great demand,” says Bhavini Patel, who cares for up to 12 children in her Kirkland, Washington, home. Families can’t afford child care, and child care providers can’t afford to stay in business. King County administrators are […]
Proyecto Proveedores Prósperos: Fortalecimiento del cuidado infantil ante las amenazas de las políticas federales
Author: Alexandra R. Patterson The Thriving Providers Project (TPP) pilot program was designed to demonstrate how direct cash transfers can impact the economic stability and emotional well-being of home-based child care (HBCC) providers — ultimately strengthening their ability to deliver quality care. To date, TPP data has empowered pilot sites to collaborate with local policymakers […]
Lo que hemos aprendido sobre las transferencias directas de efectivo en Nueva York y Filadelfia después de seis meses
In this update, we share what we’ve learned so far about providers’ experiences with the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) in New York and Philadelphia. We share early findings from the first six months of data collected from these sites between May and December 2024. These data are from a range of voices: the majority of […]
TPP Data Update: Philadelphia and New York City
For the data corner in this quarter’s newsletter, we share early findings from the first few months of data collected from the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) replication sites in New York City and Philadelphia, which were added in 2024. First, to provide some context, the 36 TPP participants in our evaluation sample in Philadelphia identify […]
Direct Cash Payments to Child Care Providers Help Them Keep Their Doors Open, So Philadelphia Kids Get Care, and Families Can Go to Work
Author: Anne Vilen Child care businesses, especially the licensed family child care homes that hundreds of Philadelphia families depend on for regular child care so that they can go to work, operate on the thinnest of financial margins. From month to month, after the expenses of mortgage or rent, insurance, utilities, quality learning materials, cleaning […]
Request For Proposals: Implementation Partner for the Thriving Providers Project in Los Angeles County, CA
Home Grown, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Children and Families First – Proposition 10 Commission (aka First 5 LA), is soliciting proposals from organizations to implement the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) in Los Angeles (LA) County, California. Learn more.
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