2005 report on child care in Cook County: Elements of child care supply and demand
An examination of the disconnect between child care supply and demand in Cook County, Illinois, with a focus on affordability and hours of care needed by parents
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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6
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Access to the Illinois Preschool for All initiative: Insights from five lower-incidence immigrant groups in northern Cook County
Findings from two studies of the barriers to and opportunities for accessing Preschool for All (PFA), Illinois' universal preschool program, faced by lower-incidence immigrant groups in the Chicago area, based on 9 focus groups with Nigerian, Pakistani, Vietnamese, Polish, and Haitian parents, and on 19 interviews with PFA providers
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The after-school needs and resources of a low-income urban community: Surveying youth and parents for community change
An assessment of after school programming needs, preferences, and barriers to both participation and enrollment, based on a survey of 416 pre- and young adolescents and 225 parents in a low-income urban community in a Midwestern city
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Assessing risk: Descriptive data related to risk factors experienced by young children and their families in Illinois
An examination of the geographic distribution in Illinois of child and family risk indicators and of early childhood program availability, based on analyses of secondary and administrative data
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Child Care and Development Fund: Undercover tests show five state programs that are vulnerable to fraud and abuse
Findings from an undercover investigation of the vulnerabilities of states' fraud prevention controls for child care assistance eligibility and billing in 5 states, and an inquiry into the influence of a lack of child care on the ability of parents to maintain employment
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Child care and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
A study examining access to, participation in, and efforts to assist with child care for families with limited English proficiency, based on analysis of national data sets, focus groups with parents, state and county site visits, and interviews with officials and experts
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The child care and educational planning of African-American and Latina adolescent mothers
A study of the influence of cultural factors on the educational expectations and decisions of teenage Latina and African American mothers
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Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families
A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families
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Child care & early education in Illinois: The choices parents make
A study of the child care arrangements of families in Illinois, including the association of arrangement type with family characteristics and parent-child reading practices, based on data from the 2003-2004 National Survey of Children's Health
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Child care experiences in low-income communities: Developmental quality and maternal views
A study of child care quality in low-income urban communities, including types of child care used and degree to which settings met children’s and mothers’ needs, based on data from a longitudinal welfare study: Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
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Child care in Cook County: Elements of child care supply and demand: FY 2006 (July 1, 2005-June 30, 2006)
An investigation into the child care options available to parents in Cook County, Illinois, with a focus on affordability, unfilled slots, and hours of care needed
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states
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Child care: States exercise flexibility in setting reimbursement rates and providing access for low-income children
A survey of variations in state-level practices for the use and reimbursement of Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) subsidies, based on the questionnaire responses of 49 state child care officials and case studies of nine rural, urban and suburban communities in Illinois, Maryland, and Oregon
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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group
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Child care utilization by disadvantaged teenage mothers
A study of employment related child care needs of welfare-dependent teenage mothers
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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence
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Choices in the real world: The use of family, friend and neighbor child care by single Chicago mothers working nontraditional schedules
A study of the family, friend, and neighbor child care arrangements and quality of family life of employed single mothers using nontraditional hours child care in Chicago, Illinois, based on interviews with 50 single mothers
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Cognitive and family-support mediators of preschool intervention: A confirmatory analysis
A study of the mediators of the effects of preschool intervention on 360 low-income children’s school achievement in the sixth grade
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Cost-effectiveness of childcare discounts on parent participation in preventive parent training in low-income communities
A study of the effectiveness of child care discounts on parent participation in the Chicago Parent Program, a preventive Parent Training (PT) program, with an examination of parents' motivations for enrolling in preventive PT, and an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the discount incentives for increasing parent enrollment and attendance, based on data from 174 parents in 8 child care centers
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Cultural differences and attitudes towards parental involvement: A case study of preschool parents
An investigation of the attitudes toward minority (Native American, Hispanic, Mayan) parents' involvement in their children's early education, specifically looking at the parents' perceptions of their roles and the impact of cultural differences on effective parent involvement
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Cultural lessons: Comparing an African-centered with a more traditional Head Start program
A study of the effects of an African-centered early education classroom on young children's cognitive and self-esteem development as well as its impact on parental involvement and satisfaction as compared with the effects of a Head Start preschool classroom
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Custodial grandmothers' physical, mental, and economic well-being: Comparisons of primary caregivers from low-income neighborhoods
A study of the implications of custodial grandparent care by comparing the material hardship, mental health, and physical well-being of custodial grandmothers and biological mothers using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
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Does maternal employment following childbirth support or inhibit low-income children's long-term development?
An analysis of the relationship between maternal employment in the two years after childbearing and children's cognitive and behavioral functioning at age 7, with additional analyses of the moderating roles of race/ethnicity and child care type on that relationship, based on data from 444 urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families from the Three-City Study, a longitudinal, multi-method analysis of the well-being of low income children and families in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago following welfare reform
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Early impacts of the Teenage Parent Demonstration on child care needs and utilization
A study of the early impact of Teenage Parent Demonstration project studies designed increase the employment and economic self-sufficiency of teenage mothers and to increase the level of child support by absent fathers
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