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America After 3PM A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households |
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Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents |
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CHELLO: The Child/Home Environmental Language and Literacy Observation An account of the design and field-testing of an instrument for measuring the quality of the language and literacy environment in home-based child care settings |
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The child care arrangements of preschool-age children in immigrant families in the United States A comparison of the use of child care arrangements among immigrant families to non-immigrant families |
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Child care for children in poverty: Opportunity or inequality? A study of child care quality in child care centers serving children from low-income families, its relationship to type of center-based programming, and its comparability to child care quality in centers serving upper- and middle-income families, based on data from the nationally representative Profile of Child Care Settings study and the National Child Care Staffing Study, which collected observational data on child care quality in 227 child care centers in five cities |
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A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care |
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The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start programs are reaching out to kith and kin caregivers: Final interim report A preliminary descriptive evaluation of the Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, analyzing participant characteristics and program design as they affect the extension of home visitation services to relatives and non-relatives caring for infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs |
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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, friends & neighbors: Year 1 evaluation report An evaluation of Family, Friends and Neighbor Care, a program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to improve the quality of home-based child care providers through home visits and play groups, that examines program implementation and changes in caregiving quality, children's vocabulary, and provider access to community resources, based on program data, surveys from 15 parents, stakeholder interviews and focus groups, pre- and post-program observations of 33 providers, and pre- and post-program assessments of 29 children |
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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers An examination of statewide efforts to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions |
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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers: 2010 update An examination of statewide efforts between February 2007 and March 2010 to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions |
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The impact of professional development in family child care: A practice-based approach An investigation into the effect of family child care providers’ participation in a language and literacy professional development program on their early literacy practices, based on a sample of 128 family child care providers receiving a language and literacy college course, a language and literacy college course plus ongoing mentoring, or no professional development activities in low-income, urban areas of Michigan |
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Maternal grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement An examination of the positive and challenging aspects of grandmothers providing child care for their grandchildren, investigating the experiences of the grandmothers as well as the effects on the sample of low income mothers from rural communities |
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Minimizing risks to children in licensed child care settings: A literature review and state survey A multistate study of the relationship between child care licensing requirements and risks of care-related injuries to children, with recommendations for strengthening licensing rules in Washington State |
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Physical activity and beverages in home- and center-based child care programs A comparison of physical activity, space, and beverage provision related to obesity prevention among a group of home- and center-based child care programs and in comparison to select elements of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) best-practice guidelines, based on data from 168 licensed home- and center-based child care programs in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Washington surveyed between October and December 2008 |
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Preschool-aged children’s television viewing in child care settings A comparison of television use in home- and center-based child care settings, and a study of the relationship between television use and the educational levels of personnel, based on data collected from a random sample of 168 directors of licensed child care programs in four states |
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Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role of child care resource and referral agencies A study of child care center obesity prevention practices and child care resource and referral agency health-related training and technical assistance offerings, based on a survey of 113 agencies from 29 states |
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Situational stressors among African-American women living in low-lncome urban areas: The role of social support An examination of the relationship between social support, inlcuding family, freind, or neighbor child care support, and stress from interviews with 736 African-American women caring for young children in a high-poverty context in Detroit |
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Stable prevalence but changing risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome in child care settings in 2001 A retrospective study of all cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) occurring in one year, comparing the deaths that occurred in child care environments with the deaths that occurred during parental care |
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Supporting family, friend and neighbor caregivers: Findings from a survey of state policies An examination of state regulatory policies for kith and kin child care providers receiving government subsidies |
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