Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards?
A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
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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
Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group
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Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts
A study of the impact of family and child characteristics on low income parents' use of child care, child care quality and receipt of child care subsidies.
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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies
A report on state-level child care assistance policies and changes that have occurred between 1995 and 2001, examining the impact of policies on families' access to care and child care choices.
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Getting Ready: Final evaluation report
An evaluation of Parent Aware Getting Ready Project, a program to assist child care providers in preparing for entry into the Minnesota Parent Aware quality rating and improvement system, that examines child care provider characteristics, services received, quality improvement, and enrollment in Parent Aware, based on administrative data, project staff interviews and surveys, and provider self-assessments and surveys
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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families
A study on the demand for affordable quality childcare in the United States
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Minnesota Child Care Choices: Continuity of care and participation in the Child Care Assistance Program
A study of the characteristics, duration of continuous participation, and continuity of child care arrangements of participants in the child care subsidy program in Minnesota, based on child care subsidy voucher administrative data for 44,582 children from January 2009 through June 2010
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Mothers' views on child care under the JOBS program and implications for welfare reform
An account of a study on mother’s participating in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program, including program participation’s effects on their children and the factors that are creating substantive benefits for some children, based on two surveys of 357 JOBS participants in local sites in Minneapolis, New York, Oregon, and Texas
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Preliminary findings on the adequacy of child care funding from the child care case studies of the Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) Project
An inquiry into factors affecting the utilization of child care subsidies, based on interviews of and focus groups with parents, administrators, and policymakers at 17 sites in 12 states
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Private safety net: Childcare resources from the perspective of rural low-income families
A journal article on the strategies used by and challenges facing low-income rural families' in their attempts to access child care resources to meet their needs
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Trends in family child care home licensing requirements and policies for 2011
An analysis of state family child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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Trends in group child care home licensing regulations and policies for 2011
An analysis of state group child care home licensing requirements and policies, including those related to staffing, group size, health and nutrition, inspections, monitoring, and enforcement, based on a survey of state child care licensing agencies and a compilation of state licensing requirements
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