In July of 1997, Bank Street College of Education's Center for Family Support initiated a collaborative project to provide support to family, friends, and neighbors who care for other people's children. Five agencies participated in the project: the Center, Child Care, Inc., Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCO), Aquinas Housing Corporation (Aquinas), and the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB). The three objectives of the project were to: (1) enhance the quality of care that children receive from kith and kin caregivers; (2) provide these caregivers with information about economic opportunities in the child care field; and (3) enhance community organizations' capacity to meet child care needs in their neighborhoods. In order to achieve project goals, a series of focus groups were conducted to gather information about caregivers. The findings were analyzed and developed into a curriculum to prepare staff of the community organizations to work with caregivers. The project served a total of 135 caregivers in three 6-month cycles. Registration and participation records from 37 caregivers and conversations with program staff provided data regarding caregiver characteristics in the following areas: (1) members of household; (2) marital status; (3) ethnicity, gender, and language spoken at home; (4) education; (5) paid jobs and income source; (6) training; (7) experience; (8) children in care; (9) duration of care; (10) relationship between duration of care and caregiver status; (11) attendance and discussion topics of support groups; and (12) outcomes of the program. In post-project interviews with six participants, the caregivers indicated that they had learned new information that affected the way they worked with children. (LBT)