What does FCC stand for?

A day care facility is required to be licensed with the Employment Department - as either a Registered Family Child Care Home or a Certified Child Care Center - if it provides care for more than three children.

As such, we conducted focus group interviews with early childhood educators from three types of early learning settings--private center-based programs, public center-based programs, and family child care centers--and asked them to tell us about the types of early learning experiences they believe children should experience prior to entering kindergarten.

The family child care home Lichtenstein uses, for instance, only has two other children.

The law entitled 6-year-old children to receive 525 hours of preschool, either at a child care center, nursery, or family child care home.

Only those children enrolled in the Family Child Care Network, General Alternative Payment and State CalWorks State 3 programs would be affected by the cuts.

In Montana, there are 21 child care centers that are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC).

Findings from Head Start and child care administrators and staff include the positive aspects of full-day Head Start services, differences in philosophy between Head Start and family- and center-based child care, the fiscal component of center and family child care partnerships, communication and support between Head Start and child care partners, and quality of care.

THE Army Family Child Care program now offers a Web-based information and referral tool for parents considering home-based care for infants, toddlers and school-age children.