- Comment from a Family Child Care Home Provider:
- "I loved the training on creativity. We all shared – it was awesome. We could express ourselves and didn’t have to do it their way.”
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Getting Started with Al's Caring Pals
- Bringing Al's Caring Pals to Your Community
- Wingspan Technical Assistance and Support
- Wide Range of Funding Resources
Bringing Al’s Caring Pals to Your Community
Al’s Caring Pals is typically sponsored by agencies or organizations committed to supporting quality home-based child care services in their community. Organizations likely to assume leadership in an Al’s Caring Pals initiative include:
- Child Care Resource and Referral Organizations
- Social Services Agencies
- Prevention Programs
- Family Involvement/Support Agencies
- Cooperative Extension Offices
- Early Childhood Education and Care Coalitions
- Community-building Organizations
A “sponsor” coalition or organization for Al’s Caring Pals may assume responsibility for:
- Bringing together a group of interested home-based child care providers
- Securing or providing funding for Al’s Caring Pals training and materials
- Designating local facilitators to complete Wingspan’s required training on effective implementation of Al’s Caring Pals
- Coordinating and hosting training sessions for home-based child care providers
- Providing monitoring phone calls or visits to support provider skills
- Coordinating evaluation of the Al’s Caring Pals initiative
Wingspan Technical Assistance and Support
National Outreach Specialists offer free consultation services to facilitate bringing Al’s Caring Pals to the home-based child care providers in your community and supporting ongoing successful implementation. Wingspan staff is prepared to help:
- Identify local partners
- Educate others about Al’s Caring Pals
- Identify potential funding
- Develop an implementation plan that fits your setting
- Strengthen grant proposals
- Troubleshoot implementation challenges
- Conduct local evaluation
- Answer questions
Wide Range of Funding Resources
Al’s Caring Pals qualifies for funding in a variety of categories for both public and private grants including:
- Child care quality enhancement
- School readiness
- Social and emotional learning
- Substance abuse prevention
- Violence prevention
- Child abuse prevention
- Life skills development
- Workforce development
- Character education
Contact a National Outreach Specialist to discuss how Al’s Caring Pals can meet your community's needs and explore funding possibilites.