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Professional Development Opportunities

The Institute for a Child Care Continuum at Bank Street College offers training for agency staff in working with kith and kin caregivers. The following modules are currently available:
  • Introduction to Informal Care
  • Understanding the Adult Learner
  • Effective Group Facilitation
  • Caregiver/Parent Communication
  • Child Development
  • Language and Literacy
      Bilingual Language Development
  • Discipline
  • Caregiver-made Materials
  • Caregiver/Child Interaction Activities
  • Health, Safety, and Nutrition
  • Community Resources
  • Opportunities In The Child Care Professions
  • Design, Implementation and Assessment of Programs for Informal Caregivers
We will also custom-design training, at Bank Street College or on-site, to meet the needs of individual organizations.

If your organization provides professional development opportunities that you would like to list on this website, please contact Toni Porter at tporter@bnkst.edu.

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Resources for Group Facilitators

  1. Brazelton, T. Berry. What Every Baby Knows and Touchpoints.

  2. Brookfield, Stephen. Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning.

  3. Calkins, Lucy. Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide.

  4. Cohen, Dorothy, Stern, Virginia, and Balaban, Nancy. Observing and Recording the Behavior of Young Children.

  5. Coles, Robert. The Moral Intelligence of Children.

  6. Comer, James and Poussaint, Alvin. Raising Black Children.

  7. Cryer, Debby, Harms, Thelma, and Bourland, Beth. Addison-Wesley Active Learning Series (Active Learning for Infants, Active Learning for Ones, etc.).

  8. Curran, Dolores. Working With Parents.

  9. Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine. Siblings Without Rivalry; How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.

  10. Featherstone, Helen. A Difference in the Family: Life With a Disabled Child.

  11. Galinsky, Ellen and David, Judy. The Preschool Years.

  12. Honig, Alice Sterling, and Brophy, Holly Elisabeth. Talking With Your Baby: Family as the First School.

  13. Kranowitz, Carol S. The Out-of-Sync Child.

  14. Martin, April. The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook.

  15. Mitchell, Ann and David Judy. Explorations With Young Children: A Curriculum Guide From the Bank Street College of Education.

  16. Rothenberg, Annye. Parentmaking.

  17. Smith, S. L. No Easy Answers: The Learning Disabled Child at Home and at School.

  18. Weinstein, Matt, and Goodman, Joel. Playfair: Everybody's Guide to Noncompetitive Play (warm-ups and ice-breakers).

  19. White, Burton L. The First Three Years of Life.

Ordering information

The above books are available from the Bank Street College Bookstore, 610 West 112 St, New York, NY 10025. Phone: (212) 678-1654. Toll-Free, New York State: (800) 439-1486. Toll-Free, outside New York State: (800) 724-1486. Fax: (212) 316-7026.

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Data Sources for Kith and Kin Care Research

    Use of Kith and Kin Child Care

    Current Population Reports. (Fall, 1996). Who's minding our preschoolers?(P-70,no.62). Washington, DC:US Government Printing Office.
    Analysis of child care arrangements of working parents with children under six.

    Anderson, F. (1998). All in the family: Supporting kith and kin caregivers. Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
    Available for purchase at http://www.naccrra.net.

    Fuller, B., Holloway, S.D., & Liang, X. (1996). Family selection of child care centers: The influence of household support, ethnicity, and parental practice. Child Development, December,1996.

    Eggers-Pierola, C. (1996). How do mothers choose child care? Alternative cultural models in poor neighborhoods. Sociology Education, 69 (April), pp.83-104.
    Study of 14 low-income mothers child care use and choices in Boston.

    Porter, T. (1991).Just Like Any Parent: The child care choices of welfare mothers in New Jersey. New York: Bank Street College of Education.
    Available on-line from the Institute for a Child Care Continuum at Bank Street College.
    Findings from six focus groups with welfare recipients about their child care preferences and use.

    Schweiters, M. (1997). Legal unlicensed child care: A report on the use of informal and relative care in Olmstead, Minnesota. University of Minnesota-Duluth, MN
    A study of 40 low-income mothers child care arrangements and definitions of quality child care.

    Siegel, G.L., & Loman, L.A. (1991,September). Child care and AFDC recipients in Illinois: Patterns, problems and needs. St. Louis, MO: Institute of Applied Research.
    A study of welfare receipients' choice and use of child care.

    Zinsser, C. (1991). Raised in East Urban: Child care changes in a working class community. New York: Teachers College Press.
    Ethnographic study of working class families' child care preferences and child care, use, especially of "babysitters."

    Phillips, D.A. (Ed.). (1995). Child care for low-income families: Summary of two workshops. Washington, DC: Author.
    Proceedings of two discussions by experts of families' choice and use of child care.

    Characteristics of Kith and Kin Caregivers

    Butler, J.,Brigham, N., & Shultheiss, S. (1992). No place like home: A study of subsidized in-home and relative child day care. Providence, RI: Rosenblum and Associates.
    Interviews and home observations with 50 participants (38 relatives and 12 in-home providers) in the state's Food Vendor program.

    Galinsky, E., Howes, C., Kontos, S.,& Shinn, M. (1994). The study of children in family child care and relative care: Highlights of findings. New York: Families and Work Institute.
    Available for purchase through the Families and Work Institute (A HREF="http://www.familiesandwork.org">http://www.familiesandwork.org)
    Interviews and home observations with 226 providers (112 regulated providers, 54 non-regulated family child care providers, and 60 non-regulated relatives).

    Malaske-Samu, K. (1996). Highlights from the 1996 license-exempt child care provider survey. Los Angeles, CA: County of Los Angeles Department of Human Services.
    Responses of 192 license-exempt providers to a mail survey.

    State of New Jersey Department of Human Services Division of Economic Assistance.(April,1991).Report on REACH/JOBS participants "approved home" child care survey. November 1990. Trenton, NJ: Author.
    Interviews and home observations of 200 self-arranged providers who cared for welfare recipients' children.

    Quality of Kith and Kin Child Care

    Galinsky, E., Howes, C., Kontos, S. & Shinn, M.(1996). The study of children in family child care and relative care: Highlights of findings. New York: Families and Work Institute. (Available for purchase through http://www.familiesandwork.org.
    Analysis of the child care quality of 226 caregivers, including 60 non-regulated relatives using measures of global quality, sensitivity, and responsiveness.

Some of these articles are available in full text directly through the National Child Care Information Center (http://www.nccic.org) or through its links to the Education Resources information Center (ERIC) clearinghouses (http://www.accesseric.org:81).

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