I-T CHILD: Building Babies Brains with the Power of Healthy Relationships 

Frequently Asked Questions by Parents

Our project aims to support families by:

  • Strengthening the caregiving practices of family day care providers by offering free one-on-one early childhood consultation to family day care providers.

  • Yale will study the effectiveness of consultation on young children’s healthy social, emotional, and holistic development.

 

Research Activities in your child’s family child care program:

  • One-on-one meetings between the provider and a consultant to help strengthen caregiving practices, which in turn will boost the healthy social and emotional development of infants and toddlers in the provider’s care!

  • Observations of the program will occur up to 3 times during the study.

  • Demographic and child behavior data reported by the provider will be collected by Yale researchers. 

  • Researchers will never work directly with the children they will only work with providers. 

  • We will be collecting data in programs for one year (Winter 2022-Fall 2022)

How am I involved?

  • If you are the parent of an infant or toddler, you can choose to allow your child care provider to share information about your child’s behavior with the Yale research team.

  • The Yale research team will look at the information without ever knowing your child’s full name or identity. 

  • If you don’t want to share data about your child, that is your right and you can choose not to participate.

  • Your child care provider can still participate in the program and receive helpful coaching from the consultant’s from this project. 

  • Either way, our hope is that the consultation will result in healthy interactions between providers and ALL children in their care. 

Meet the support team:

 Yale University- Yale is collecting the data from this study and helping to coordinate all of the partners.

Adelphi University, Committee for Hispanic Children & Families (CHCF), Docs for Tots

Consultants- Work for one of the agencies listed above. Consultants are the specially trained people who will work one on one with providers to provide weekly meetings (consultation). 

Do you have more questions?

Please email the project staff at: itchild@yale.edu