Todd Grindal
@grindato.bsky.social
Co-Director, Center for Learning & Development at SRI. Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Researching how policy and practice can better support young children and children with disabilities.
To help foster families better access care, we needed to understand what matters most for them in their child care decision-making.
They told us they prioritize:
✅ Full-day care
✅ Convenient location
✅ Trauma-informed staff
[6/🧵]
They told us they prioritize:
✅ Full-day care
✅ Convenient location
✅ Trauma-informed staff
[6/🧵]
March 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
To help foster families better access care, we needed to understand what matters most for them in their child care decision-making.
They told us they prioritize:
✅ Full-day care
✅ Convenient location
✅ Trauma-informed staff
[6/🧵]
They told us they prioritize:
✅ Full-day care
✅ Convenient location
✅ Trauma-informed staff
[6/🧵]
Foster families told us that they needed help in the child care search process.
Most said that rely on their own time, effort, and community networks—formal supports that are intended to help just aren’t reaching them. [5/🧵]
Most said that rely on their own time, effort, and community networks—formal supports that are intended to help just aren’t reaching them. [5/🧵]
March 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Foster families told us that they needed help in the child care search process.
Most said that rely on their own time, effort, and community networks—formal supports that are intended to help just aren’t reaching them. [5/🧵]
Most said that rely on their own time, effort, and community networks—formal supports that are intended to help just aren’t reaching them. [5/🧵]
We learned that high-quality child care represents essential infrastructure for the foster care system.
One illustrative finding was that more than a third of surveyed foster families said they’d declined placements—even when they had room in their home—because they couldn’t find child care. [4/🧵]
One illustrative finding was that more than a third of surveyed foster families said they’d declined placements—even when they had room in their home—because they couldn’t find child care. [4/🧵]
March 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We learned that high-quality child care represents essential infrastructure for the foster care system.
One illustrative finding was that more than a third of surveyed foster families said they’d declined placements—even when they had room in their home—because they couldn’t find child care. [4/🧵]
One illustrative finding was that more than a third of surveyed foster families said they’d declined placements—even when they had room in their home—because they couldn’t find child care. [4/🧵]