Providing home-based child care providers with high-quality learning opportunities
Family child care and family, friend, and neighbor providers are a critical source of support for working families. The Family Child Care at Its Best program delivers high-quality, research-based workshops that help home-based caregivers improve their knowledge, skills, and quality of care for working with mixed-age groups of children.
Partner Facilitator Training
NEW! Family Child Care at Its Best (FCCB) is now offering training for partner facilitators. Trainers, coaches, and community leaders who provide support to family child care or family, friend, and neighbor providers can learn how to facilitate FCCB workshops and gain access to all necessary curriculum to offer FCCB workshops.
Partner Facilitator Training is for you if…
- You are an individual or program that supports family child care or family, friend, and neighbor providers, AND
- You have prior experience leading professional development or supporting adult learners.
Direct-Service Workshops
FCCB is pleased to offer direct-service workshops at no cost to the host agency. Simply complete the request form to choose from the available topics, languages, and date(s) you are looking for. You conduct outreach, and FCCB does the rest! We will provide you with a flyer, all needed materials, and an instructor to lead your selected workshop. Availability is based on current funding.
Direct-service workshops are for you if…
- You are an individual or program that supports family child care or family, friend, and neighbor providers, AND
- You do not have the capacity to send staff to facilitator training, OR
- You do not have staff fluent in all languages needed to serve your community.
Sample Topics
Workshops are available in English, and many workshops are also available in Spanish. We are working on translating the remaining topics in Spanish, as well as translating into Chinese, and Russian. The Topics page will indicate which languages are currently available for each workshop topic.
We currently offer 21 workshops in eight different focus areas.
