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			America's homeless children National Center on Family Homelessness, Newton, MA: National Center on Family Homelessness. A summary of a study of homeless families with children, focusing on the causes of homelessness and its influence on children�s health, education, and the delivery of services	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Barriers and opportunities: Helping smaller immigrant communities access the Illinois Preschool for All program: Summary findings from three studies Adams, Gina, Washington, DC: Urban Institute. A summary of 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; and a summary of a study of strategies to support access to PFA for lower-incidence immigrant groups in the Chicago area, based on interviews and focus groups with organizations serving immigrant communities	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Breaking down barriers: Immigrant families and early childhood education in New York City Kirmani, Rasmia, May, 2008 New York: Coalition for Asian American Children and Families. A discussion of the barriers to child care and early education services access facing immigrant families in New York City	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Caregiver well-being affects academic achievement FPG Child Development Institute, August, 2007 (FPG Snapshot No. 48). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. A summary of 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	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Caregiver well-being affects academic achievement FPG Child Development Institute, April, 2007 (FPG Snapshot No. 43). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute. A summary of 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	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Characteristics of an exit cohort of AFDC recipients that affect use of child care subsidies Pearlmutter, Sue, 1999 (Briefing Report No. 9902). Cleveland, OH: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (Case Western Reserve University), Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change. A report on characteristics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) leavers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that predict child care subsidy use	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child Care and Development Block Grant participation in 2005 Center for Law and Social Policy, 2006 Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy. An overview of the characteristics of children and families who received child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant in 2005	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care assistance and child care use: Fundamental facts from the 2004 Minnesota child care survey Minnesota. Department of Human Services, 2006 (DHS-4822). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Human Services. Results from a 2004 survey on child care assistance and center-based child care use among low-income families in Minnesota	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care assistance policies 2001-2004: Families struggling to move forward, states going backward Schulman, Karen, 2004 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. A discussion of the increased barriers to child care assistance programs that low-income families face	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care for families with low incomes: Fundamental facts from the 2004 Minnesota child care survey Minnesota. Department of Human Services, 2006 (DHS-4819). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Human Services. A fact sheet highlighting child care arrangements and issues encountered by low-income families	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care for welfare participants in rural areas United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2000 (Rural Welfare Issue Brief). Washington, DC: Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. A brief on the child care arrangements of the rural population.	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care in the postwelfare reform era: Analysis and strategies for advocates Gong, Jo Ann, 1999 (1999, January-February) Clearinghouse Review An overview of changes to welfare reform under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, with recommendations of strategies for advocates working with families receiving welfare	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care use by low-income families: Variations across states Lippman, Laura, June, 2008 (Publication No. 2008-23). Washington, DC: Child Trends. A state-by-state and national analysis of features of the child care arrangements of low-income families, including child care type and parents' experiences with child care problems, based on the state and nationally representative 2003 National Survey of Children's Health	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Children in low-income families are less likely to be in center-based child care Capizzano, Jeffrey, 2004 (Snapshot of America's Families III No. 16). Washington, DC: Urban Institute. A brief comparing the child care arrangements of children under five from high- and low-income families.	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Children of current and former welfare recipients: Similarly at risk Tout, Kathryn, 2002 Washington, DC: Child Trends. A brief comparing the children of welfare recipients and welfare leavers on indicators of health, social behavior, and school engagement	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Communication in any language: Policy solutions for children and families in Massachusetts Bessie Tartt Wilson Children's Foundation, 2008 Boston: Bessie Tartt Wilson Children's Foundation. A summary of a study of challenges to accessing child care for families with limited English proficiency	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Creating paths to father involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start Burwick, Andrew, 2005 (Issue Brief No. 1). Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. An overview of lessons learned from the design, implementation, and operation of 21 programs intended to involve low-income fathers in intervention programs for young children	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Depressed moms & child development National Center for Early Development & Learning (U.S.), November 1999 (NCEDL Spotlights No. 16). Chapel Hill, NC: National Center for Early Development and Learning. Key findings from a longitudinal study on the correlation between maternal depression and children's development and school readiness, based on data on 1,215 mothers and their children assessed regularly from 1 to 36 months	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early childhood care and education experiences of low-income immigrant families Vesely, Colleen K., 2011 Unpublished research brief A summary of a study of immigrant parents' early childhood care and education preferences, search processes, and experiences, based on semi-structured interviews with 40 immigrant mothers with children enrolled in early childhood programs in the Washington, DC, area	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success Center for Law and Social Policy, February 26, 2007 Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy. A description of Early Head Start services that address the specific needs of teenage parents	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Early language development: Fragile Families in urban Essex research brief Deklyen, Michelle, September 2006 Princeton, NJ: Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. A discussion of early language development in children and the way it is affected by several commingling factors: the mothers� educational level, income, ethnicity, and the gender of the child	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Encouraging work through child care subsidies Blau, David M., JCPR Policy Briefs, 3(8). Highlights from a study on the correlation between the receipt of child care subsidies and recipients� employment rates, based on a subsample of 4,029 families from the 1997 National Survey of America�s Families	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Families and children 2001: Living standards and the children Vegeris, Sandra, 2003 London: Great Britain, Department for Work and Pensions. A summary of findings from the 2001 Families and Children Study in England, with a focus on the impact of standards of living on children	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Families and children in Britain: Findings from the 2002 Families and Children Study (FACS) Barnes, Matt, 2004 London: Great Britain, Department for Work and Pensions. A 2002 survey of the effectiveness of work incentive measures for families and children in the United Kingdom	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Families experiencing multiple disadvantage: Their use of and views on childcare provision Speight, Svetlana, January 2010 (Research Brief No. DCSF-RB191). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Children, Schools and Families. Highlights of an exploration of parents' use of child care services and perspectives on their quality and availability, and an examination of the influence of the availability of child care services on maternal employment decisions, based on data for more than 7,000 parents of children aged birth through fourteen years old in the United Kingdom who participated in the Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2008	Fact Sheets & Briefs

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