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The ABCD Story: A model for learning
BTW Informing Change, January, 2009
(Report to the Community Issue VII). San Francisco: Low Income Investment Fund.

A description of the Affordable Buildings for Children?s Development (ABCD) Initiative and its influence on the promotion of the structural quality of child care and early education facilities in California, with a focus on the financing, capacity building, development assistance, and advocacy program components of the initiative

Reports & Papers

Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality
Porter, Toni, 2002
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of August 16, 2012)

A catalog, directory, and report on the evaluations of 104 local and state child care quality improvement initiatives funded through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

Reports & Papers

Child care: States have undertaken a variety of quality improvement initiatives, but more evaluations of effectiveness are needed
United States. General Accounting Office, 2002
(GA0-02-897). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

An examination of the types and effectiveness of quality improvement initiatives implemented by states with 4 percent set-aside and other funds, based on surveys from Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies in 42 states, supplemented by case studies from 5 states selected to represent variations in geographic location, population density, child care quality improvement initiatives, state income distribution, licensing caseloads, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) fund usage, and state licensing requirements

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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.

A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits

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Evaluation of Preschool for All implementation in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties: Year 4 San Francisco report
American Institutes for Research, July, 2009
San Francisco: First 5 San Francisco.

A process evaluation of the fourth year and a review of earlier years of implementation of Preschool for All, an initiative to make high-quality child care available to all four-year-old children, in San Francisco County, California, based on interviews with 4 family child care providers, 18 site supervisors, and 7 program directors, and a review of previous evaluation activities

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Lessons from CARES and other early care and education workforce initiatives in California, 1999-2004: A review of evaluations completed by fall 2004
Whitebook, Marcy,
University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

A discussion of the implementation of Compensation and Recognition Encourage Stability (CARES) program and other child care workforce initiatives in California

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The QUINCE-PFI study: An evaluation of a promising model for child care provider training: Final report
Bryant, Donna M., September 2009
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute.

An examination of the efficacy of an individualized, assessment-based, on-site consultation model of professional development for the quality improvement of early childhood programs, based on 108 child care classrooms and 263 family child care homes from twenty-four agencies in five states assigned to a group to receive a professional development intervention or to a control group

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Report on the second round of the Quality Child Care Initiative (QCCI): Final report
Quality Child Care Initiative, 01 October, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.

A history of the history, implementation, and funding activities of the second round of the Quality Child Care Initiative, a Bay Area, California, collaborative of funders whose grantmaking efforts aimed to improve child care quality, based on document analysis and review and interviews with funders and grantees

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