My Family Child Care

Welcome to My Family Child Care, an app tailored for Family Child Care Providers and the families they serve! Family Child Care Home providers, also known as home-based day care providers, care for nearly 2 million children in the United States. This multicomponent app will deliver much needed self-care, parenting, and parent engagement content for providers and parents and early literacy, math, and social emotional learning games for 3-6 year old children. Finally, users will have access to the Ask a Nurse Program, a tele-wellness service provided by registered nurses housed at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Features Self Care Tips for Providers and Parents Parenting Tips for Parents Parent Engagement Tips for Providers Interactive, Adaptive Early Literacy, Math, Social Emotional Learning Games for Children Hotline and Email provided for a Tele-Wellness Service where licensed community health nurses will provide counseling in the following areas 1. Wellness Counseling 2. Protecting Your Health in the Midst of Uncertainty 3. Addressing Parental Stress 4. Optimizing Parental Engagement 5. Care Coordination/Addressing Social Needs 6. What To Do If You Don’t Feel Safe This app is the first version developed and part of the formative phase of an ongoing project. The app’s main goal is to create a health and learning infrastructure for Family Child Care Home Providers, parents and children. The content in this app was developed in partnership with Escribo Play. Copyright 2020 Johns Hopkins University (content)/Escribo Inovacao EIRELI (software) Once downloaded, the content can be used without being connected to the internet.