Description:
The purpose of the Study of Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-child care) Partnerships is to improve our understanding of how EHS?child care partnerships support quality improvement, child development, and family well?being in early childhood settings serving infants and toddlers. The project includes a review of the literature to summarize the current knowledge base around EHS-child care partnerships; development of a theory of change model to articulate relations among key features, characteristics, and expected outcomes of partnerships; development of approaches to measuring partnerships for existing and new data collection efforts; and a national descriptive study of the new discretionary EHS-child care partnership grantees aimed at identifying the purposes, goals, and key characteristics of partnerships, supports necessary for their success, and challenges or barriers they face in implementation. A final report of the study's findings was released in March 2019. Additionally, in the fall of 2018, OPRE funded a new study of EHS-child care partnerships as a special add-on to the Baby FACES study. The design for that study is under development.
Resource Type:
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Grantee(s)/Contrator(s):
Contact(s):