The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Children, Families and Communities program is investing in exploratory projects to learn more about informal care settings. The overall goal of this work is to test strategies to provide information to family, friends, and neighbors (FFN), or informal caregivers, connect them with resources as well as each other, and support them in providing quality care for young children. Harder+Company Community Research, in partnership with the Center for Evaluation Innovation, conducted an evaluation of four informal care grants with an emphasis on learning from and with grantees, and using evaluation tools to support and strengthen the projects
Seventeen grandparent caregivers, who have primary responsibility for one or more grandchildren and ...
Significant research has been conducted both locally and nationally documenting the tasks completed ...
Informal kinship caregivers take on the responsibility of raising a relative\u27s children in situat...
Although the field of informal/FFN child care is emergent (compared to research and work that has be...
Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care is a widely used form of care for young children in th...
This paper presents an overview of current efforts to document or evaluate initiatives for family, f...
According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, an informal or family caregiver is “an unpaid in...
Introduces a series of essays that explore family, friend, and neighbor child care. This form of chi...
Currently, more than 60 percent of children in the United States under the age of 5 are in some type...
A review of research on the characteristics of users and providers of family, friend, and neighbor c...
This chapter describes two studies examining quality of care in family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) c...
Most children cannot imagine living without their parents; for some though, because of social instab...
Reports on a subset of findings from a study that explored the support roles of African American chi...
Many family, friend and neighbor caregivers are “hidden” and receive little support and limited moni...
With advances in medicine and nutrition resulting in longevity comes increased risk of debilitating ...
Seventeen grandparent caregivers, who have primary responsibility for one or more grandchildren and ...
Significant research has been conducted both locally and nationally documenting the tasks completed ...
Informal kinship caregivers take on the responsibility of raising a relative\u27s children in situat...
Although the field of informal/FFN child care is emergent (compared to research and work that has be...
Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care is a widely used form of care for young children in th...
This paper presents an overview of current efforts to document or evaluate initiatives for family, f...
According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, an informal or family caregiver is “an unpaid in...
Introduces a series of essays that explore family, friend, and neighbor child care. This form of chi...
Currently, more than 60 percent of children in the United States under the age of 5 are in some type...
A review of research on the characteristics of users and providers of family, friend, and neighbor c...
This chapter describes two studies examining quality of care in family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) c...
Most children cannot imagine living without their parents; for some though, because of social instab...
Reports on a subset of findings from a study that explored the support roles of African American chi...
Many family, friend and neighbor caregivers are “hidden” and receive little support and limited moni...
With advances in medicine and nutrition resulting in longevity comes increased risk of debilitating ...
Seventeen grandparent caregivers, who have primary responsibility for one or more grandchildren and ...
Significant research has been conducted both locally and nationally documenting the tasks completed ...
Informal kinship caregivers take on the responsibility of raising a relative\u27s children in situat...