Family child care providers care for 3 to 12 children in their own homes, often with an assistant. Since 2005, providers in Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Maryland and Maine have united in SEIU and won quality improvements by having an official voice with their state’s governments.
Parents often choose family child care because of the small size and home-like setting, or for cultural reasons. Family child cares operate under standards set by individual states.
November 16, 2012 - Every day, tens of thousands of working families rely on family child care providers to care for and to educate their young children in a...
February 10, 2012 - Eighty local child care providers, parents and children lined the sidewalks and chanted with picket signs to protest mismanagement at the Center for Community and...
December 2, 2010 - Nancy Rios and Ramon Salazar, who both work at a Panda Express restaurant, used to have a hard time coming up with the $250-300 a week that it costs to have a babysitter watch their three children in Oxnard, CA.