Key Learnings From the First Complete TPP Implementation: Announcing the 18-Month Colorado TPP Report (English)
By: Lamisa Mustafa, MPP and Callie Silver, PhD, Stanford Center on Early Childhood Two years ago, Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) to uplift home-based child care (HBCC) providers and engender policy shifts around stable, increased compensation for this essential, yet underpaid workforce. We are thrilled that the first pilot of this direct […]
Thriving Providers Project Final 18-Month Evaluation Report
The Thriving Providers Project (TPP) 18-month Evaluation Report produced in collaboration with Stanford Center on Early Childhood (SCEC), Impact Charitable and Home Grown, provides information on the background and origin of TPP, the initiative’s Theory of Impact, methodology including research design and participant details, quantitative and qualitative findings organized by the Theory of Impact for […]
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.
REPORT: Celebrating One Year of Thriving Providers Project Learnings in Colorado
The Stanford Center on Early Childhood (SCEC), the home of RAPID, partnered with Home Grown to evaluate and continuously learn about Thriving Providers Project and the experiences of home-based child care participants. The SCEC used a longitudinal, mixed-methods, rapid-cycle approach to evaluate TPP, gathering data from TPP participants, parents/caregivers, and community-based organization staff and comparing […]
Thriving Providers Project Benefits Protection Toolkit
Home Grown, in partnership with Impact Charitable and KD Strategic Advocacy & Consulting, has developed a detailed toolkit to help users develop a benefits protection strategy for their Direct Cash Transfer programs. This toolkit will be best used at the early stages of the program design process for any new pilot or program, as the timelines to […]
Understanding and Expanding Benefits as a Strategy to Improve Home-based Child Care Workforce Compensation
The expiration of child care stabilization funds at the end of September has dominated news cycles for weeks and recently the Biden administration has requested $16 billion in additional funding for child care from Congress. The issue at the forefront of Home Grown’s concern is: How do we maintain access to child care for families […]
A Look at the Data – October 2023 (English and Spanish)
For the data corner in this quarter’s newsletter, we wanted to focus on survey data* from TPP participants that gives insight into the ways that TPP has been beneficial, and may continue to be, beyond the direct cash transfers. At the outset of the project, we theorized that direct cash transfers to home-based child care […]
Thriving Providers Project: What We Have Learned So Far
Innovative programs require innovative evaluation approaches. Stanford Center on Early Childhood’s (SCEC) belief in that is why we are so excited to work with Home Grown on the Thriving Providers Project (TPP). Given that this is the first direct cash transfer program in the United States focused exclusively on home-based child care providers, the primary […]
Early Learning Nation: Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No ‘Strings Attached
“She puts in long hours, starting at 5 in the morning and working until 3 every day. One parent works on a farm an hour away, another works an early shift at a tamale factory and another works an early shift at a meat processor. Lerrga makes so little, however, that she has to work […]
EdSurge: What Happens When You Give Child Care Providers Money — With No Strings Attached?
“Hernandez, a 47-year-old in Greeley, Colorado, a mid-sized city about 60 miles north of Denver, was preparing to leave the child care sector when something unbelievable happened. She learned about an opportunity to begin receiving predictable, unconditional direct cash payments, for a total of $500 per month, through a pilot program aimed at stabilizing the […]
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