...And this helps me how?: Family child care providers discuss training
A discussion of the obstacles involved in establishing successful training programs for family child care providers
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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care
A report presenting findings from a study on informal child care with a focus on the use of this care by low income families in Connecticut
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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from a study regarding low income families' use of informal child care
Executive Summary
Child care: How do military and civilian center costs compare?
A comparison between the costs of providing early childhood education and care services through military programs and civilian programs
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Child care: Reducing employee absenteeism through sick child day care
A summary of the benefits for employers offering sick child care to its employees
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Children in self-care
A summary of findings from national surveys on the use of self-care, focusing on prevalence, age of the child, parental employment, family income, and risks of leaving children to care for themselves.
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The context of infant attachment in family child care
A study of family child care provider-infant attachment security and interactive involvement
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Curriculum comes from the child! A Head Start family child care program
A description of the implementation of the Arrowhead Head Start Family Child Care Program in Virginia, Minnesota
Other
Cytomegalovirus transmission in child care homes
An investigation of the rate that young children are exposed to cytomegalovirus in family child care homes as compared with the rate of exposure in child care centers
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The ecological context of in-home nonrelative child care
An examination of in-home nonrelative child caregivers, their work environment, quality of services provided and their employers,
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Effects of nonmaternal child care on inequality in cognitive skills
An examination of the relationship between non-maternal child care and children’s cognitive skills, emphasizing the type of care and mothers’ educational and income levels, based on an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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The epidemiology of injuries in 4 child care centers
A 2-year cohort study of 362 preschool-aged children comparing rates of injuries based on sex, age, and child care center, and examining the environmental and child factors related to injury severity
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Estimation of direct and indirect costs because of common infections in toddlers attending day care centers
A study examining the direct and indirect costs (e.g., medication, time off from work) of illnesses in toddlers attending Canadian child care centers
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Family child care homes and the CACFP: Participation after reimbursement tiering: An interim report of the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study
An inquiry into the participation rates of family child care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
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Family child care homes and the CACFP: Participation after reimbursement tiering: An interim report of the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study [Executive summary]
A study of the impact of reimbursement tiering on the number of family child care homes participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the number of sponsoring agencies, and the total number of licensed child care homes, independent of their participation
Executive Summary
Grandmothers' involvement in grandchildren's care: Attitudes, feelings, and emotions
A study conducted in Italy of the variety of psychological and relational aspects of mothers, grandmothers, and young children from the point of view of the grandmother, including their analysis of the meaning they assigned to grandmothering and the individual definitions they assigned to their role as grandmothers
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Grandmothers providing care for grandchildren: Consequences of various levels of caregiving
An examination of the differences between grandmothers who provide various levels of caregiving responsibilities for their grandchildren
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Health assessment in child care centers: Parent and staff perceptions
A study examining the health care needs of children in child care settings, using a Health Care Services Assessment completed by 55 parents and 13 staff members in four urban child care centers
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Home-based child care: Assessing the self-sufficiency potential (with special reference to refugees)
A report on the issues involved in starting and likely income from running a home-based child care business
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I love children, and four-pence a week is four-pence!: Contradictions of caring in family day care
An exploration of the beliefs of family child care providers on the difference between their provision of services and actual mothering, based on a survey of 225 family child care providers in Western Australia
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Inclusion in a childcare context: Experiences and attitudes of family childcare providers
A study of the relationship between the experiences and attitudes of family child care providers ability to care for a child with a disability and the supports necessary to include children with disabilities into their program
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The Kellogg Child Development Center: High-quality child care
An overview of the approach to the delivery of quality early childhood education and care services utilized by the Kellogg Child Development Center in Boulder, Colorado
Other
Nonparental child care
A summary of the association of non-parental child care on children’s development
Other
A profile of the Sacramento County child care workforce: Findings from the 1998 survey of child care centers and family child care homes
Two surveys describing characteristics of the Sacramento County, California, child care workforce, one focusing on child care workers and the other focusing on family child care providers
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Provider-reported illness and absence due to illness among children attending child-care homes and centers in San Diego, Calif
An examination of the rate of provider-reported absences due to illness for young children attending child care centers as compared with the rate of absences for attendees of family child care homes
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