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Adopted August 2007 by National Association for Family Child Care |
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NAFCC’s Vision for Family Child Care
Every family child care provider has all the resources she/he needs to provide a high quality early learning experience for each child in her/his family child care program, including a developmentally appropriate curriculum and access to comprehensive services for the children and their families.
- Every family child care provider has access to professional development opportunities appropriate for family child care providers with diverse learning styles and abilities.
- Every family child care provider’s compensation is commensurate with her/his experience and professional development achievements and not limited by parents’ ability to pay.
- States and communities support family child care with resources to help providers meet licensing requirements, including requirements for safe and healthy family child care home environments.
The cultural, linguistic and economic diversity of our profession and of the children and families we serve is respected and celebrated by providers and other early childhood support agencies and by the policy makers whose decisions determine what resources are available to us.
Parents choose to have their infants and toddlers cared for in a high quality family child care home, and parents value the opportunities in family child care for long-term relationships with a consistent caregiver and for keeping siblings together in small, mixed age groups.
Family child care is valued as an essential component of the early childhood education delivery system. It is viewed as an asset to all communities where families live and is not prohibited by any state or local land use plans or any restrictive covenants.
National Association for Family Child Care Vision Statement Adopted August 2007