Comprehensive child care programs can play a significant role in strengthening and supporting children and families in out-of-home care. Increasingly, subsidized child care is seen as a means to help recruit and retain foster and adoptive parents as well as kinship caregivers.
This 22-page document, produced in 2001, will assist policy makers, child care administrators, social workers, and others in developing, funding, and expanding child care services that meet the needs of families and children in out-of-home care