Tele-Wellness Supported App for Family Child Care Home Providers and Families to Promote Health, Family Engagement, and School Readiness Amid COVID-19

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The investigators will adapt and deliver a tele-wellness supported digital toolkit via an app for Baltimore City's Family Child Care Home (FCCH) providers and the families the FCCH serve. Through this digital toolkit, the investigators aim to provide related self-care support, parent/parent engageme...

The investigators will adapt and deliver a tele-wellness supported digital toolkit via an app for Baltimore City's Family Child Care Home (FCCH) providers and the families the FCCH serve. Through this digital toolkit, the investigators aim to provide related self-care support, parent/parent engagement support for both Family Child Care Home providers and parents, and provide access to early literacy, math, social-emotional learning, and nutrition games for children (3-6 years old). Additionally, Family Child Care Home providers and parents will have access to a hotline and email to the Ask a Nurse program-a tele-wellness program run by community registered nurses at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Through Ask a Nurse, providers and parents will be able to receive wellness counseling from licensed registered nurses and care coordination to address specific social needs. The tele-wellness service is NOT intended to directly address health issues, diagnose, or prescribe. In summary, Family Child Care Home providers will have access to self-care and parent engagement resources and parents will have access to self-care and parenting resources in addition to the games for the child(ren). The first phase of this study is to tailor an existing app, Escribo Play that already has gamified early literacy and math tools, and expand its scope by including self-care and parenting/parent engagement support for Family Child Care Home Providers and the parents the FCCH serve. Additionally, the investigators are creating gamified social-emotional learning and nutrition games for the children. The second phase is a pre-post test where the investigator will recruit FCCH providers enrolled in the Essential Personnel Child Care or School-Aged program and the parents the FCCH serve to fill out health surveys before and 15 weeks post engagement with the app. The investigators hypothesize that engagement with the digital toolkit will improve provider and parental perceived level of stress, informational support, access to learning games, as well as social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in children.

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