About Home-Based Child Care (HBCC)
What is Home-Based Child Care?
Home-based child care (HBCC) is child care provided in a home, as an alternative to an institutional or outdoor setting. We further define our focus on care that most typically takes place in the provider’s home and is by someone other than the legal guardians of the child being cared for.
Why is it important?
Home-Based Child Care is essential because it meets the unique needs of certain families not met in other care settings. Home-Based Child Care services are often preferred by:
Rural communities
Families working nontraditional hours
Families with babies and toddlers
Black and Latinx families
Children with special needs
Learn more about the importance of Home-Based Child Care here.
What is an HBCC Network?
Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) Networks are the connective tissue that joins individual home-based providers to each other and to system infrastructure, including funding and policy. The image below shows the strategy surrounding the unique support role that a HBCC Network can offer HBCC Providers. Learn more about the value and strategy of HBCC Networks here. Each member of our Community of Practice is a HBCC Network.
