Although family child care (FCC) programs have been increasingly targeted by quality improvement efforts such as Quality Improvement Rating Systems, research suggests that these efforts often fail to align QRIS supports with the unique needs and interests of this population. The aim of this study was to examine the aspirations, strengths, challenges, and professional development needs of FCC providers who identify as immigrants or refugees living in a low-income, multi-ethnic urban community in California in order to design a professional development program that meets the criteria of our county’s QRIS while at the same time honoring the community context. Results from focus groups indicate that providers described their work in terms that reflected cultural models of care that were often incongruent with definitions of quality embodied by our county’s QRIS. Data provides empirical support for the continued examination of cultural models of care as a way to define quality in FCC settings and findings are presented via a multi-level theoretical frame that draws attention to the macrosystemic contexts of racism, poverty, the immigrant and refugee experience, and the universal standards of quality embodied by QRIS.

尽管诸如质量改进评级系统之类的质量改进工作越来越将家庭儿童保育（FCC）计划作为目标，但研究表明，这些努力通常无法使QRIS支持与该人群的独特需求和利益保持一致。这项研究的目的是检验FCC提供者的抱负，优势，挑战和专业发展需求，他们将其识别为生活在加利福尼亚州低收入，多种族城市社区中的移民或难民，以设计专业发展计划符合我们县QRIS的标准，同时尊重社区环境。焦点小组的结果表明，提供者以反映文化护理模式的术语来描述他们的工作，这种文化模式通常与我县QRIS所体现的质量定义不一致。数据为继续检查文化护理模式提供了经验支持，以此作为定义FCC场所质量的一种方式，并通过一个多层次的理论框架来介绍研究结果，该框架提请人们关注种族主义，贫困，移民和难民经历的宏观背景，以及QRIS体现的通用质量标准。