The Institute for a Child Care Continuum is pleased to announce the release of Toni Porter's paper, Assessing Initiatives for Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care: An Overview of Models and Evaluations, which presents a description of current efforts to support and enhance home-based, regulation-exempt child care provided by family, friends, and/or neighbors, and of the documentation and evaluation of these efforts.  

The Institute for a Child Care Continuum at Bank Street College of Education supports quality care for children across the child care continuum through:

• Policy research and program evaluation
• Program development
• Staff training and technical assistance

Our work is guided by the notion that:

• All children need safe and healthy environments wherever they are
• Anyone who provides child care for children should have the knowledge and skills to support healthy development
• Child care quality is a cumulative measure of what children experience across all settings rather than an individual measure of children's experience in a single setting

We are a team of researchers and practitioners who use our combined experience and expertise to support:

• Child care policy makers
• National and community organizations that are concerned about child care issues
• Program staff
• Children and families