Our Mission:
Family child care providers will have individualized career paths and supports leading to increased recruitment and retention rates, respect within the field, and inclusion of Family Child Care within all aspects of the Early Care & Education system in order to protect this important choice for families.
How We Plan To Achieve It:
We provide a holistic data collection and analyzation process of family child care providers to give systems and networks the information they need to focus their time and dollars and have a significant impact on recruitment, retention and quality.
Find Out More About Patricia and Donna
Family Child Care Experts LLC® is dedicated to gathering detailed family child care data in order to inform the systems that support this important sector of the early childhood education field (ECE). In order to truly see how systems affect FCC, the proprietary FCCE Balance Survey© asks the experts—the FCC business owners. The survey includes questions no one else is asking, diving deeper into the wide spectrum of elements impacting their work, including motivations, strengths, challenges and the relationships between them that affect retention and quality of care in family child care. We assist systems and organizations that support family child care to going beyond the one-size-fits-all approach to reaching their goals, collecting data and analyzing results to identify the combination of initiatives where targeted funding and support will have the largest impact on outcomes.