{"id":5494,"date":"2023-09-11T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:28:24","slug":"celebrate-national-family-friend-and-neighbor-appreciation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/celebrate-national-family-friend-and-neighbor-appreciation-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Family, Friend and Neighbor Appreciation Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week (Sept. 10-14) is National Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) Appreciation Week! Family, friend and neighbor child care is the most widely used form of child care in America \u2014 FFN caregivers care for nearly 7 million children under age 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/\">Home Grown<\/a>, a national collaborative of funders dedicated to improving access and quality in home-based child care, is shining a light on FFN care each day this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Sunday, Sept. 10&nbsp;<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/finding-child-care-is-still-impossible-for-many-parents\/\">Celebrating Grandparents as FFN Caregivers<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Monday, Sept. 11<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Home-Grown-Child-Care-Fact-Sheet-final.pdf\">Are You an FFN Caregiver? Who Are the FFN Caregivers All Around Us?<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Tuesday, Sept. 12<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qh9cpZbKtt8&amp;feature=youtu.be\">FFN Care Meets the Developmental Needs of Children<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Wednesday, Sept. 13<\/strong>: &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/executive-summary-what-child-care-arrangements-do-parents-want-during\">FFN Care is a First Choice, for Many Reasons!<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Thursday, Sept 14<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/HomeGrown-Supporting-Diverse-Families-Thriving-Economies-final-6.2.22.pdf\">Supporting FFN Caregivers With Policy Efforts<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1jYj4O5dEX8DMJYyj-rVbRARZ0ho1RvVC6o32PyPzZEc\/edit\" style=\"background-color:#84a740\">Access Home Grown&#8217;s FFN Appreciation Week toolkit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can celebrate FFN Appreciation Week by thanking your FFN caregivers and by raising awareness of FNN care. Use the hashtags #FFNCareisAlwaysThere and #FFNAppreciationWeek to share your appreciation on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week (Sept. 10-14) is National Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) Appreciation Week! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13588,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[207],"initiatives":[117],"audiences":[],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}