"Kids-on-Campus" provides before and after school child care services in partnership with seven school districts in Sacramento and Yolo Counties (CA). It is the ideal solution to the latchkey children problem with the program taking responsibility for all the development and administration of in-school child care programs. (MD)

In response to the number of young children taking care of themselves after school, the state of California has developed "Safety Pals," a program that teaches children how to take care of themselves when they do not have adult supervision. (MD)

Traces the development of day care from the early 1800's to the present. Focuses on California, a national leader in publicly supported childcare, preschool, parenting education, and afterschool care programs. Describes 1985 legislation, including a welfare reform act and a latchkey program providing significant funding for school age childcare.…