Insights From Hispanic Family Child Care Providers

Research BriefHispanic Children & FamiliesOct 1, 2025

This brief focuses on regulated home-based family child care (FCC) programs, as opposed to unregulated home-based providers; see “Home-based Care Context” for more information. Specifically, we examine how Hispanic FCC providers who cared for children in 2019 experienced the first year of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) COVID-19 Longitudinal Follow-Up Study (2020–2022), which followed child care providers from the 2019 NSECE to document their experiences during the pandemic. Our analysis focuses on Hispanic providers—who represented approximately 1 in 5 FCC providers nationally in 2019—and on those who were still operating during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider provider well-being from a holistic lens, which includes physical health, mental health, and financial well-being, as well as exposure to potential stressors and access to supports. In particular, we examine the potential support that federal and state pandemic assistance provided to Hispanic FCC programs.

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