Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) care refers to child care provided by unlicensed relatives, friends, or others in the community. FFN is often referred to as informal child care.

• To increase the quality of early learning services for children in informal child care settings so that they will enter school ready to learn.
• To increase parental involvement and effectiveness with their children’s early learning at home and at school.
• To facilitate the development and build the capacity of a community based training model for Informal Child Care (ICC) providers
  • with resource sharing, linkages
  • support
  • qualified personnel
  • and local planning

We partner with Weld County ECC for PASO. They are housed under United Way of Weld County. Our friends and colleagues at Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition sponsor a PASO cohort in the counties we serve. For more information please visit: http://coparentcoalition.org/paso/