FAMILY FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR CARE
New! State Policies for Supporting Family, Friend, & Neighbor Care 
Richard Chase from Wilder Research and Minnesota BUILD’s state evaluation partner wrote this brief on how state policy can support family, friend and neighbor caregivers. It provides a case study of Minnesota’s 2007 legislative victory, which made it the first state to provide explicit state financing focused on strengthening FFN care through broad-based community actions.
FFN Resource List for Extended Reading 
This resource listing, developed for BUILD's National Meeting on Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care in Minneapolis in September 2009 is a compilation of national and state FFN resources and documents. September 2009
State Policies for Supporting Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care 
This policy brief, written for BUILD by Richard Chase of Wilder Research, outlines groundbreaking FFN policies in Minnesota and highlights smart strategies in Hawaii, Washington state, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.
System Building Family, Friend and Neighbor Care Planning Template
The BUILD Initiative designed this planning template and set of next step questions to help states move forward with plans for supporting the learning needs of young children cared for primarily in family, friend and neighbor care settings.
System Building Family, Friend and Neighbor Care Planning Template
The Build Initiative designed this planning template and set of next step questions to help states move forward with plans for supporting the learning needs of young children cared for primarily in family, friend and neighbor care settings.
Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care: Resources and Organizations
This National Child Care Information Center document provides a list of resources with information about family, friend and neighbor care.
Resource Guide for Family, Friends and Neighbors Who Care for Children
This information booklet is a resource guide for FFN care providers.
Sparking Connections Phase II: A Multi-Site Evaluation of Community-Based Strategies to Support Family, Friend
and Neighbor Caregivers of Children
This report presents an overview of Phase II of the Sparking Connections initiative of the Families and Work Institute. It focuses on lessons learned and recommendations that will promote positive child development and learning.
Toward a National Strategy to Improve Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care
Thirty-three experts from a range of research, policy, and practice organizations came together for a symposium on Family, Friend and Neighbor Care hosted by the National Center for Children in Poverty in November 2005. This symposium report outlines the picture of current FFN research, practice, and policy that emerged and identifies next steps to strengthen all three areas.
Family, Friend and Neighbor Care Best Practices: A Report to Ready 4K - How Culturally Diverse Families
Teach Their Children to Succeed and How Their Early Education Systems Can Learn From Them
Many cultural communities prefer FFN care because it enables them, to transfer cultural values, language and traditions to their children. This report from Minnesota's Ready 4K focuses on best practices within FFN care in five cultural communities: African American, Hmong, Latino-Mexican-Chicano, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and Somali. It includes the experiences of families whose children have done well and from the observations of community members, caregivers and educators.
Family Place Libraries: From One Long Island Library to the Nation
Family Place Libraries are specially designed spaces in public libraries for parents and their young children. They work to build connections among neighbors, support the role of parents as children's first teachers, increase chances for successful early intervention and foster a lifelong love of reading and learning. This article describes the beginnings of the now nationwide Family Place Libraries movement, beginning in the Middle County Public Library in Centereach, NY.
Family Place Libraries: Transforming Public Libraries to Serve Very Young Children and Their Families
Public libraries are well suited to link families to information and education resources within the library, and to other community services and programs. The future success of public libraries may lie in their ability to serve young children and families. This article from ZERO TO THREE describes the Family Place Library, a model for providing comprehensive, community-based early childhood education and family support.
