4Children children's centres interim impact report: What impact do our centres have on the lives and outcomes of children and families?
An examination of service provision in and outcomes for communities served by 4 children's centers, which offer integrated, comprehensive early childhood and family services in England, based on analyses of administrative data and inspection reports
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Adopting innovation in early childhood education: The Child-Parent Center Program
An overview of the Chicago Child-Parent Center model, with arguments for the national adoption of a similar program
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Age 21 cost-benefit analysis of the Title I Chicago child-parent centers
A cost benefit analysis of the federally funded Chicago Child-Parent Center program using data from the Chicago Longitudinal Study from a cohort of children born in 1980.
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Alterable predictors of child well-being in the Chicago Longitudinal Study
An overview of the major findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study, including summaries of child well-being indicators and estimated effects of participation in preschool programs
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Anchors away! Implementing program-wide positive behavior supports at the Visiting Nurses Association Child Care and Family Resource Center
An account of the implementation of the use of positive behavior support (PBS) by early childhood workers in a child care and preschool setting that provides integrated health and education services to children of low- to moderate-income families in New Hampshire, including a discussion of challenges of program development and teacher training
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Annual evaluation report: Clayton Educare: 2009-10 school year
A study of classroom quality, parenting experiences, and children's cognitive, language, and socioemotional development in Clayton Educare, a program in Denver, Colorado, offering center-based and home visiting services to children and families from pregnancy to age 5, based on classroom observations, direct child assessments, and parent and teacher surveys
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The application of a family-based multi-tiered system of support
An account of the implementation of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) to promote the use of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) by families with young children, and a study of the feasibility of such an intervention system
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Assessing the impact of pediatric-based developmental services on infants, families, and clinicians: challenges to evaluating the Healthy Steps program
A description of the design, site characteristics, and sample used in the Healthy Steps program evaluation
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Barriers to addressing family mediators of literacy, employability, and substance abuse: How Head Start programs collaborate to meet their families' needs
An analysis of data collected from a national survey, examining the barriers to helping Head Start families receive services and the success of collaborations between Head Start and service providers in meeting family needs
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Buildings in Sure Start local programmes
A description of the physical infrastructure utilized by Sure Start Local Programs (SSLPs), based on a survey of 60 SSLPs randomly selected from each Government Office Region
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Changing cognitions in parents of two-year-olds attending Scottish Sure Start centres
A study of a preschool intervention's effect on disadvantaged parents' expectations of their children, perception of their role as parents, and parental redefinition, based on the perceptions of 88 intervention parent participants, a comparison group of 55 parents, and 30 interviews with parents from 20 centers
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The Chicago Child-Parent Centers: A longitudinal study of extended early childhood intervention
An evaluation of the implementation of the early childhood intervention program, Chicago-Parent Center (CPCs), and the Chicago Longitudinal Study among eight-grade students between 1983 and 1989
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Child care resource and referral programs and parents' search for quality child care
A survey of 107 parents and discussion of the correlation between their child care decisions and use of child care resource and referral programs
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Childminder networks census
A study of the characteristics of networks for family child care providers run by local governments in the United Kingdom, based on surveys of local officials
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Children at risk: Effects of a four-year Head Start transition program on special education identification
A study of special need identification rates for former Head Start children by the third grade, comparing the difference in identification rates for children with and without a systematic Head Start transition experience, using the National Head Start Early Childhood Transition Study
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Children, families and communities: Developing integrated services
An account of the history and innovative practices of the Sheffield Children's Centre, a non-traditional provider of child care, family services, advocacy, and employment in a low income community
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Children, families and nursery provision
A study of the use of ecological theory and integrated nurseries to stabilize the perceptions that vulnerable families held of traditional and integrated provision in the United Kingdom and the United States
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Child support, child care and Head Start collaboration: Innovations & ideas
A description of the efforts of six states to promote collaboration between Head Start, Child Support, and subsidized child care programs, subsequent to receiving demonstration grants from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
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Cognitive and school outcomes for high-risk African-American students at middle adolescence: Positive effects of early intervention
A study of the long-term positive cognitive and social outcomes of low-income, primarily African American, adolescents in an early childhood educational intervention program
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Collaboration and community change in the Children's Futures initiative
An implementation evaluation of Children's Futures, an early childhood initiative to improve the health, well-being, and school readiness of infants and toddlers in Trenton, New Jersey, by providing health services and parenting education, improving the quality of available child care, increasing father involvement, and supporting collaboration among Trenton social, health, and child services agencies and organizations
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Community centred child care: A new answer to ''Who benefits?''
A discussion of community oriented approaches to early childhood education and care, using information on the Families First initiative in New South Wales
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Creating family support systems: In Head Start and beyond
A discussion of the public policy interest in creating adequate family support systems through early childhood programs funded by state and federal initiative, such as the Family Services Center funded by the Head Start and Even Start programs and projects funded by the Child Care and Development Care Block Grant
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Cuyahoga County Early Childhood Initiative: Evaluation and research project interim report
An overview of the Early Childhood Initiative and its impact of the state of early childhood care and education in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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December 2003 progress report: Toronto First Duty
A progress report from the evaluation of Toronto First Duty, a multi-site program that integrates child care, early education, and family support services, based on site progress reports, child assessments, staff and parent interviews, and site observations and case studies
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The diffusion of a pediatric care innovation in a large urban nonprofit health care system
An evaluation documenting and analyzing the diffusion of an innovation in pediatric primary care, the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, in a large health care system, Advocate Health Care in Chicago, using Everett Rogers’ model
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