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Assessing the New Federalism A multi-year, multi-pronged project that analyzes state policy choices, including policy development and implementation, and family well-being in the context of the significant devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states |
Major Research Projects
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Child care and our youngest children A review of national studies examining the current state of infant and toddler child care and how it affects children's development |
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Child care and welfare reform An overview the evolution of federal child care subsidy policy since 1996, a discussion of the use of subsidized child care among low-income populations, and an identification of possible themes in the debate over the reauthorization of federal funds for the subsidy, expansion, and improvement of child care and early education services |
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Child care centers, child care subsidies, and faith-based organizations: Preliminary findings on five counties in 2003 Preliminary findings about the role of faith-based organizations in child care provision, and their rates of participation in the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) voucher subsidy system |
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Child care centers, child care vouchers, and faith-based organizations An examination of the roles of faith-based organization in providing or supporting center-based child care, particularly for children from families receiving vouchers, in five counties in four states |
Reports & Papers
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Child care instability: Definitions, context, and policy implications An examination of child care instability, including its definition and characteristics, causes, relationship to child care subsidies, and policy implications |
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Child care instability: Definitions, context, and policy implications [Executive summary] A summary of an examination of child care instability, including its definition and characteristics, causes, relationship to child care subsidies, and policy implications |
Executive Summary
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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies The second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment |
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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies [Executive Summary] Summary of the second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment |
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Child care subsidies and TANF: A synthesis of three studies on systems, policies, and parents A summary of findings from a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect administrators and TANF parents, child care subsidy use by parents in transition to work, and the experiences of current and former TANF recipients with the subsidy system |
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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies First of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect TANF parents |
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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies [Executive Summary] Summary of the first of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect TANF parents |
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Child care subsidy policies and practices: Implications for child care providers A study of subsidy policies and practices that can shape the experiences of providers serving subsidized children, especially the way providers’ pay and their ability to navigate the subsidy system affect their participation in the system, the quality of child care, and their financial stability; based on interviews and site visits in 17 sites |
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Child care vouchers and unregulated family, friend, and neighbor care A study of providers of unregulated family, friend, and neighbor care who participate in the voucher system of subsidized care to determine their characteristics and their perceptions of policy, and a study of the voucher agencies’ experiences with family, friend, and neighbor caregivers, among samples of caregivers and voucher agency staff in five counties from four states |
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Child Care, Welfare and Families: The Nexus of Policies, Practices, and Systems An examination of the role of welfare policies and practices in shaping child care for low-income families, building on the Urban Institute's New Federalism Project. Key issues include: (1) how child care and welfare systems are organized at State and local levels; (2) the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches; and (3) how overlap and duplication are being addressed. |
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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Client-friendly strategies: What can CCDF learn from research on other systems? An examination of the implications for efforts to improve child care subsidy access and retention of research on strategies to make benefits systems more "client friendly" |
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Designing subsidy systems to meet the needs of families: An overview of policy research findings A synthesis of strategies used by state and local agencies to support parents through the process of accessing and retaining child care subsidies |
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Designing subsidy systems to meet the needs of families: An overview of policy research findings [Executive summary] A summary of a synthesis of strategies used by state and local agencies to support parents through the process of accessing and retaining child care subsidies |
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Early care and education for children in low-income families: Patterns of use, quality, and potential policy implications A review of research in four areas: 1) child care and early education usage patterns among children from low-income families, 2) child care and early education quality and its relation to child development, 3) child care and early education quality for children from low-income families, and 4) the policy context shaping child care and early education quality |
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Early care and education for children in low-income families: Patterns of use, quality, and potential policy implications [Executive summary] A summary of a review of research in four areas: 1) child care and early education usage patterns among children from low-income families, 2) child care and early education quality and its relation to child development, 3) child care and early education quality for children from low-income families, and 4) the policy context shaping child care and early education quality |
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Essential but Often Ignored: Child Care Providers and the Subsidy System An examination of the characteristics of subsidized and unsubsidized providers, exploring how subsidy policies affect their experiences. The study also describes the participation of faith-based organizations in the child care subsidy system and the occurrence of activities supporting children's early learning and literacy in diverse settings. |
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Essential but often ignored: Child care providers in the subsidy system An analysis of subsidy policies and practices that affect providers serving subsidized families, focusing on the amount providers are paid to care for subsidized children and how providers experience the subsidy system |
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Getting and retaining child care assistance: How policy and practice influence parents experiences A study of parents' interaction with the child care subsidy system and how state and local subsidy policies and practices affect parents' experiences. Particular attention is paid to the process of applying for and retaining subsidies. |
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How safe?: The status of state efforts to protect children in child care A critique of health and safety protections for children in child care and the way they differ across the United States |
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Is there a system supporting low-income working families? An investigation of the efficiency of the Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), food stamps, child care subsidies, and the earned income tax credit (EITC) programs in supporting low-income, working families |
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