Unmet childcare needs are pervasive issue on family farms
but guidance largely absent from farm programming
This 2023 research brief summarizes findings from interviews with 36 farm service providers and reviews of 92 outreach and education materials about coverage of children and childcare in farmer education.
The study found that while raising children on farms can be challenging and has direct implications on both farm safety and the farm business, children and childcare topics are largely invisible in many current farmer education programs. Service providers across a range of organizations express the need for more programming and support.
The research was conducted by Florence Becot, Shoshanah Inwood and Andrea Rissing with contributions by Sarah Ruszkowski with funding from CDC NIOSH grant U54 OH009568-10. For more information, contact Florence Becot (florence.becot@psu.edu) or visit the project page.