Are we meeting the child care needs of low-income families?
Layzer, Jean I., 2001
Paper presented at the Child Care Funding: How Much Is Needed and Is There Enough? Brookings Forum, Washington, DC.

A presentation based on a study of state child care expenditures that examines the adequacy of these resources in meeting the demand for child care subsidies among low-income families and looks at whether states are trying to serve a larger number of families by encouraging parents to use cheaper forms of care.

Other

Child Observation
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

Instruments

Early childhood programs: Adding a two-generation perspective
Layzer, Jean I., 1996
Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates.

An analysis of the reasons underlying two-generation intervention programs, the different program models, and issues related to program design, costs and implementation.

Other

Effectiveness of a comprehensive, five-year family support program for low-income children and their families: Findings from the Comprehensive Child Development Program
Goodson, Barbara D., 2000
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15(1), 5-39

A randomized experiment to evaluate the effects of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP), a two-generation program that includes case management and home visiting on the cognitive and socioemotional development of children and the socioeconomic status of their families, from 21 CCDP projects that tracked 4,410 families for five years

Reports & Papers

Environment Checklist
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

Instruments

Environment Snapshot
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

Instruments

Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Findings from an experimental test of three language/literacy interventions in child care centers in Miami-Dade County: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, January 2009
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings from a two-year experimental study of the impacts of three different language and literacy interventions on teacher behavior, classroom environment, and children's language development and early literacy skills in classrooms of 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Reports & Papers

Family Child Care Home Observation: Information Sheet, Physical Description of Setting, Roster of Children Enrolled and Present
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

Instruments

Follow-up Study of Issues Affecting the Duration of Child Care Subsidy Use
Layzer, Jean I., 2002
Abt Associates

A follow-up study on the unexpected and unexplained findings from the Study of Child Care Subsidy Duration conducted by members of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium under the leadership of Oregon State University, which found that low-income families in five states used child care subsidies for a surprisingly short period of time--between three and seven months on average. The follow-up study surveys families who have exited a State child care subsidy program, and examines administrative data, to explore the possible reasons for such short average participation rates.

Child Care Bureau/OPRE Projects

Kith and kin: Informal child care: Highlights from recent research
Brown-Lyons, Melanie, May 2001
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

An overview of research on kith and kin child care, including: the proportion of children using informal child care, characteristics of families, reasons for families’ use of informal child care, costs of care, quality, provider characteristics and experiences, and child and parent experiences

Other

National evaluation of family support programs: Final report Volume A: The meta-analysis
United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, April 2001
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

Findings from an analysis of the results of the mass of research studies and evaluations of family support interventions conducted within the last 25-30 years, including assessment of the collective outcomes of the primary research and of the effectiveness of the programs studied

Reports & Papers

National impact evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program: Final report
United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, 1997
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

The final report from the National Impact Evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP), which discusses the theoretical aims of the project, as well as the results of the project evaluation

Reports & Papers

National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children that use it: Executive summary
United States. Administration for Children and Families, September 2007
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

A summary of findings from the two-and-a-half-year In-Depth Study of Family Child Care, a component of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, focusing on parents and their employment and child care experience, family child care providers and their homes as child care environments, and children and their experiences in family child care

Executive Summary