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America's homeless children 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 |
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Barriers and opportunities: Helping smaller immigrant communities access the Illinois Preschool for All program: Summary findings from three studies 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 |
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Breaking down barriers: Immigrant families and early childhood education in New York City A discussion of the barriers to child care and early education services access facing immigrant families in New York City |
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Caregiver well-being affects academic achievement 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 |
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Caregiver well-being affects academic achievement 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 |
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Characteristics of an exit cohort of AFDC recipients that affect use of child care subsidies A report on characteristics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) leavers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that predict child care subsidy use |
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Child Care and Development Block Grant participation in 2005 An overview of the characteristics of children and families who received child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant in 2005 |
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Child care assistance and child care use: Fundamental facts from the 2004 Minnesota child care survey Results from a 2004 survey on child care assistance and center-based child care use among low-income families in Minnesota |
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Child care assistance policies 2001-2004: Families struggling to move forward, states going backward A discussion of the increased barriers to child care assistance programs that low-income families face |
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Child care for families with low incomes: Fundamental facts from the 2004 Minnesota child care survey A fact sheet highlighting child care arrangements and issues encountered by low-income families |
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Child care for welfare participants in rural areas A brief on the child care arrangements of the rural population. |
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Child care in the postwelfare reform era: Analysis and strategies for advocates 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 |
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Child care use by low-income families: Variations across states 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 |
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Children in low-income families are less likely to be in center-based child care A brief comparing the child care arrangements of children under five from high- and low-income families. |
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Children of current and former welfare recipients: Similarly at risk A brief comparing the children of welfare recipients and welfare leavers on indicators of health, social behavior, and school engagement |
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Communication in any language: Policy solutions for children and families in Massachusetts A summary of a study of challenges to accessing child care for families with limited English proficiency |
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Creating paths to father involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start 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 |
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Depressed moms & child development 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 |
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Early childhood care and education experiences of low-income immigrant families 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 |
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Early Head Start and teen parent families: Partnerships for success A description of Early Head Start services that address the specific needs of teenage parents |
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Early language development: Fragile Families in urban Essex research brief 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 |
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Encouraging work through child care subsidies 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 |
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Families and children 2001: Living standards and the children 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 |
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Families and children in Britain: Findings from the 2002 Families and Children Study (FACS) A 2002 survey of the effectiveness of work incentive measures for families and children in the United Kingdom |
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Families experiencing multiple disadvantage: Their use of and views on childcare provision 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 |
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