Family Child Care Partnerships

The FCCP Mentoring Approach

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A mentoring approach creates a sense of partnership that can facilitate new ways of perceiving and behaving in the child care setting and provide the impetus for change. Suggestions for quality improvements are more likely to be incorporated when given by an individual with whom the provider has developed a rapport and established a trusting relationship. Quality improvements are more likely to be relevant to a provider’s individual child care setting when given by a mentor who visits regularly and understands the strengths and constraints of the care giving context in which the provider works.

MENTORING OUTPUTS 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05    
Providers enrolled by the end of the year 214 207 232    
Full-time/Part-time Mentors employed 20 21 20    
Mentored training hours awarded to providers 4403.67 9635.17 10,2363.29    

Group training hours awarded to providers

959 2937 3150    

PROVIDER OUTCOME

Average provider FDCRS** score at the end of project year 4.25 4.50 5.03    
NAFCC Accredited providers 52 45 36    
Providers in NAFCC application process 22 18 21    
Providers in NAFCC self-study process data unavaliable data unavaliable data unavaliable    
    

MENTORING OUTPUTS

2003-04

2002-03 2001-02 2000-01  
Providers enrolled by the end of the year 207 161 198 155  
Full-time/Part-time Mentors employed 18 18 24 20  
Mentored training hours awarded to providers 6375 7203 7541 5869  

Group training hours awarded to providers

1031 2481 4726 1440  

PROVIDER OUTCOMES

Average provider FDCRS** score at the end of project year 4.89 5.31 4.93 4.65  
NAFCC Accredited providers 25 18 0 1  
Providers in NAFCC application process 36 34 5 0  
Providers in NAFCC self-study process data unavaliable 35 data unavaliable 0  

** Family Day Care Rating Scale is a 32-item standardized child care quality assessment assessing quality across a range of specific indicators. A score of 7 is the highest possible.