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Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project This project involves both a cross-site national study and local longitudinal studies of low-income families with young children in Early Head Start sites in 17 communities in the United States. The project was funded in two waves: Birth to Three (1996-2001) and Pre-Kindergarten Follow-Up (2001-2004). The five major components of the project are: an implementation study, an impact evaluation, local research studies, policy studies, and efforts toward continuous program improvement. The implementation study assessed the level and quality of implementation of EHS at each site, as well as variations across sites, with regard to five program areas: child development and health care; family partnerships; community involvement and partnerships; staff development; and program management. Results include a profile of each of the 17 research programs, their services and expected outcomes. The information gathered was critical for the development of the impact evaluation analyses and the identification of pathways to full implementation. The impact evaluation followed a random assignment, longitudinal design to examine how child, parent and family outcomes were influenced by EHS programs, as well as by variations in program approaches and community contexts, program implementation and services, and the characteristics of children and their families. The third component involves 16 local research projects conducted by 15 university-based researchers who partnered with Early Head Start research programs. Designed to investigate the unique outcomes and program functions of each Early Head Start program, these longitudinal studies continue through the second phase of the project, Pre-Kindergarten Follow-up (2001-2004). The policy studies component focuses on issues related to welfare reform, health and disabilities, child-care and fatherhood. The component of continuous program improvement consists of reports and presentations disseminating new information that can help all Early Head Start programs to increase their ability to meet the needs of families. |
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Kansas and Missouri Early Head Start programs: Kansas City, Kansas, and Sedalia, Missouri An overview of two Early Head Start programs, Project EAGLE, in Kansas City, Kansas and the Children’s Therapy Center, in Sedalia, Missouri, by reviewing the programs’ partnerships with community child care providers, implementation successes and challenges of these partnerships, and lessons learned |
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Quality care for low-income infants and toddlers: A study of community strategies A summary of research on how Early Head Start-child care partnerships help low-income families overcome barriers to child care access. |
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Quality child care for infants and toddlers: Case studies of three community strategies A study of child care quality and it impact on infants and toddlers presenting a set of in-depth case studies of three types of collaborative infant-toddler child care initiatives located in four diverse communities, with findings collected during intensive three-day sight visits to the case study communities |
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Quality child care for infants and toddlers from families with low incomes: Lessons learned from three communities An examination of community-level strategies to improve child care quality and affordability, based on case studies of three communities with Head Start programs in El Paso County in Colorado, Buncombe County in North Carolina, and the program in Kansas City, Kansas and Sedalia, Missouri |
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