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Finding a quality child care program that meets your child's and family's needs can be challenging.
Additionally, some preemies may have chronic health problems or developmental delays that make
finding quality child care more difficult.
Problems in
finding quality child care when working nontraditional hours aren't limited to parents who need to work more hours.
The following resources link families and service providers to organizations that supply information on types of child care and how to
find quality child care.
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• Some studies have
found «shared
care»
children exhibiting particularly positive outcomes (Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992), although this may be related to the
quality of the parents» relationship and other factors.
In addition, research has shown that men who
find infant
care books unappealing (as will be the case when they can not read them easily) miss out on important information about parenting and
child development, and that this lack of knowledge is likely to impact negatively on the level and
quality of their involvement with their
children (Lewis, 1986).
The
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Several studies
found that
quality child care programs have certain characteristics in common.
«We know that lots of families are not getting the help they need to
find affordable, high -
quality child care.»
Find the expertise your
child needs from top pediatric neurologists at Floating Hospital in Boston, offering
quality care for diseases of the nervous system.
Some of the many benefits a Postpartum Doula provides for you and your baby include: Better infant
care skills Positive newborn characteristics Breastfeeding skills improve A healthy set of coping skills and strategies Relief from postpartum depression More restful sleep duration and
quality Education and support services for a smooth transition home A more content baby Improved infant growth translates into increased confidence A content baby with an easier temperament Education for you to gain greater self - confidence Referrals to competent, appropriate professionals and support groups when necessary The benefits of skin to skin contact Breastfeeding success Lessen the severity and duration of postpartum depression Improved birth outcomes Decrease risk of abuse Families with disabilities can also benefit greatly by learning special skills specific to their situation Families experiencing loss often
find relief through our Doula services Improved bonding between parent and
child.
When it's time to go back to your job, one of the biggest challenges is to
find high
quality child care.
«As a national way of assessing and tracking hospital
quality, pediatric readmissions and revisits, at least for specific diagnoses, are not useful to families trying to
find a good hospital, nor to the hospitals trying to improve their pediatric
care,» said Naomi Bardach, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSF Benioff
Children's Hospital and lead author.
In the first multi-state study of
children's and non-
children's hospitals, assessing pediatric readmission and revisit rates — being admitted into the hospital again or visiting the emergency room within 30 days of discharge — for common pediatric conditions, UCSF researchers
found that diagnosis - specific readmission and revisit rates are limited in their usefulness as a
quality indicator for pediatric hospital
care.
A new study by the National Institute for
Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
finds that
children who were
cared for in high -
quality childcare settings outside the home have better vocabulary skills at fifth grade than
children who received early
care in lower -
quality settings.
«We
found that the effect of
quality child care on fifth grade reading and math achievement varies by family income.
It has been almost 30 years since the National Council of Jewish Women released «Windows on Day
Care,» alerting the country to a looming child - care crunch that would force working parents to struggle to find care that was affordable, much less high - qual
Care,» alerting the country to a looming
child -
care crunch that would force working parents to struggle to find care that was affordable, much less high - qual
care crunch that would force working parents to struggle to
find care that was affordable, much less high - qual
care that was affordable, much less high -
quality.
In addition, they
found that
children's behavior depended not just on the quantity of
care but, to a slight extent, also on the
quality.
State Policies and Practices Supporting
Child Care for Infants and Toddlers presents findings that highlight the relative importance of policies, practices, and regulations that state Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators use in their efforts to increase the supply and quality of early care and education for children from birth through age three, with an emphasis on children from low - income famil
Care for Infants and Toddlers presents
findings that highlight the relative importance of policies, practices, and regulations that state
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators use in their efforts to increase the supply and quality of early care and education for children from birth through age three, with an emphasis on children from low - income famil
Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators use in their efforts to increase the supply and
quality of early
care and education for children from birth through age three, with an emphasis on children from low - income famil
care and education for
children from birth through age three, with an emphasis on
children from low - income families.
To
find high -
quality child care spaces, you'll need to conduct your own research.
While some of the obstacles Namat and Wael face are specific to new immigrants in Canada, the dilemma of
finding affordable
quality child care seems to be a universal problem across the nation.
Whether searching for
quality child care or looking for professional development for early childhood educators, you will
find information below that links you to the information or services you may need.
Finding quality, convenient and affordable
child care is not an easy job.
A: The Ontario Coalition for Better
Child Care (OCBCC), founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high quality, not - for - profit, regulated child care in the province of Ont
Child Care (OCBCC), founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high quality, not - for - profit, regulated child care in the province of Onta
Care (OCBCC),
founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high
quality, not - for - profit, regulated
child care in the province of Ont
child care in the province of Onta
care in the province of Ontario.
Family
Child Care Today: A Report of the
Findings of the Massachusetts Cost /
Quality Study: Family
Child Care Homes (2003)
The challenges of
finding quality care are particularly difficult for the families whose incomes are too low to pay market rates for private
child care providers and who instead rely on a patchwork of publicly subsidized early
care and education (ECE) programs.
These programs include the Nurse Family Partnership, 16,17 Healthy Families America, 18,19 Healthy Start, 20,21 Early Head Start, 22,23 the Comprehensive
Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive sk
Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but
findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30
found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including
child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive sk
child abuse,
child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive sk
child health
care,
quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skills.
These
findings demonstrating enhanced
child and parent benefits associated with collaborative
care extend those reported in
quality improvement interventions for
child behavior problems, 13,14 ADHD, 6 — 8 adolescent depression, 10,11 and other problems.5 In the follow - up period, EUC showed significantly greater remission since posttreatment in behavior problems than DOCC, which may reflect DOCC patients having achieved greater remission by the end of treatment.
Despite contradictory earlier
findings about the effects of
child care on cognitive and linguistic development, more recent research has consistently documented the enduring and positive effects of high -
quality child care.
The HS
findings are consistent with the magnitude and direction of those observed at 30 to 33 months, when robust effects were observed for
quality of health
care services received and parenting practices related to discipline and perceptions of behavior.5 The persistence of these
findings is related to experiences seeking health
care in an intervention that offered the greatest intensity of services in the first 18 months, with completion of home visits particularly concentrated in the
child's first year.
She describes her struggle to
find child care that had the same
quality learning environment as the Head Start program:
Child development benefits were most often
found for
quality center
care, and further research is warranted on the effects of other types of
care.
Children who experience higher
quality early
child care characterized by better relationships with their
care providers have subsequently better relationships with their teachers in school.30 Positive teacher -
child relationships appear to persist over time, as shown by links
found between the
quality and style of early relationships with
child care providers, subsequent relationships with
care providers and preschool teachers, and relationships with kindergarten teachers.
Contrary to meta - analytic
findings of the earlier literature that focused only on the effects of the amount of
care provided without adequately controlling for selection effects, the NICHD Study
found that a number of features of
child care (the amount of
child care, age of entry into
care, and the
quality and stability of
child care) were unrelated to the security of infant — mother attachments or to an increased likelihood of avoidant attachments, except when mothers provided less sensitive parenting of their infant.11 For the
children who received less sensitive maternal
care, extended experience with
child care, lower -
quality child care, and more changes in
child care arrangements were each associated with an increased likelihood of developing an insecure attachment with their mothers.
Group size is a particularly important contributor to effectiveness in the broader education literature.16 Results are mixed regarding the extent to which the benefits derived from the
quality care (at least in some domains) may benefit disadvantaged
children more than other
children — but such
findings would be generally consistent with results from intervention and education studies.11, 16
There also is sufficient research to conclude that
child care does not pose a serious threat to
children's relationships with parents or to
children's emotional development.1, 2,9 A recent study of preschool centres in England produced somewhat similar results:
children who started earlier had somewhat higher levels of anti-social or worried behaviour — an effect reduced but not eliminated by higher
quality.17 In the same study, an earlier start in
care was not
found to affect other social measures (independence and concentration, cooperation and conformity, and peer sociability), but was
found to improve cognitive development.
Many families
find informal
child care settings of varying
quality or leave early childhood programs altogether.
The positive linkages between
child care quality and a variety of positive outcomes are among the most pervasive
findings in developmental science.
Tuition rates rival or exceed the cost of college, and high -
quality child care spaces are so limited that many families
find themselves in «
child care deserts.»
Studies show, however, that adoptive families face significant challenges in
finding quality mental health services provided by therapists who are knowledgeable about the effects of pre-adoption experiences on
children's intellectual and social functioning,
children's ability to form attachments to their adoptive families, and
children's overall development in light of early abuse and neglect and foster
care placements.
The national
child protection charity expressed concerns at the findings by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) of major non-compliances with national standards in foster care services operated by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, in the Dublin South Central, Dublin North City and Cavan / Monaghan a
child protection charity expressed concerns at the
findings by the Health Information and
Quality Authority (HIQA) of major non-compliances with national standards in foster
care services operated by the
Child and Family Agency, Tusla, in the Dublin South Central, Dublin North City and Cavan / Monaghan a
Child and Family Agency, Tusla, in the Dublin South Central, Dublin North City and Cavan / Monaghan areas.
The Better Beginnings website also has resources to help parents understand the importance of high -
quality child care and how best to
find it in their communities.
The team also
found that families on the subsidy waitlist are at a particular disadvantage as they have the greatest difficulty paying for
care, the least access, and the poorest
quality child care.
The researchers
found that, in Massachusetts, families receiving
child care subsidies report greater access to
child care, more affordable
child care, and higher
quality child care, than do similar families not receiving subsidies.
These
findings will inform a report developed later this year by the state's Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High -
Quality, Affordable
Child Care.
Their recent report Stalled at the Start
finds that nearly half of the state's infants and toddlers likely to need
child care lack access to regulated
care and the majority (79 %) lack access to high -
quality programs.
Family
Child Care Today: A Report of the
Findings of the Massachusetts Cost /
Quality Study: Family
Child Care Homes.
They also
found that maternal report of infant reactivity was linked with mother reports of lower
quality of paternal coparenting, less father involvement in
child care activities, and diminished maternal satisfaction with the division of parenting.
For example, new longitudinal research
found that
children who received high
quality early
care and education services are significantly more likely to be employed full - time and have more financial and personal assets by their early forties.