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1997 census of child care services and 1996 census of child care services
Australia. Department of Family and Community Services, 1999
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia, Department of Family and Community Services.

A report of findings from the 1996 and 1997 Australian Government censuses of all child care providers receiving government funding, which provided information on services offered, children served, and child care staff

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1997 census of child care services and 1996 census of child care services: Summary booklet
Australia. Department of Family and Community Services, 1999
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia, Department of Family and Community Services.

A summary of findings from the 1996 and 1997 Australian Government censuses of all child care providers receiving government funding, which provided information on services offered, children served, and child care staff

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Almost a million children in school before kindergarten: Who is responsible for early childhood services?
Clifford, Richard M., 1999
Young Children, 54(5), 48-51

An exploration into the public early childhood education services provided by local and state education agencies

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An analysis of the child and adult care food program in child care centers
Kapur, Kanika, 1999
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

An analysis of the characteristics of three types of child care centers: centers that choose to participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), centers that are eligible for CACFP but do not participate, and centers that are not eligible for CACFP, focusing on a center’s propensity to participate in CACFP conditional on being eligible

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Availability of day care services for preschool children with special health care needs
Markos-Capps, Gina, 1999
Infants and Young Children, 11(3), 62-78

A survey-based study examining the availability and factors affecting child care services for preschool children with special needs, focusing on types of interventions provided, center directors' perceptions of inclusion, staff-child ratios, and requirements for admission of preschool children with special needs

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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care
Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, 1999
Farmington: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut.

A report presenting findings from a study on informal child care with a focus on the use of this care by low income families in Connecticut

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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care [Executive summary]
Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, 1999
Farmington: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut.

A summary of findings from a study regarding low income families' use of informal child care

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Characteristics of an exit cohort of AFDC recipients that affect use of child care subsidies
Pearlmutter, Sue, 1999
(Briefing Report No. 9902). Cleveland, OH: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (Case Western Reserve University), Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change.

A report on characteristics of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) leavers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that predict child care subsidy use

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Child care in King County: 1999
Child Care Resources, June 1999
Bellevue, WA: Child Care Resources.

A profile of child care in King County, Washington that analyzes the availability, affordability, and quality of child care available to families from the 1996 welfare reform to 1999

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Child care in King County: 1999 [Executive summary]
Child Care Resources, June 1999
Bellevue, WA: Child Care Resources.

A summary of a profile of child care in King County, Washington that analyzes the availability, affordability, and quality of child care available to families from the 1996 welfare reform to 1999

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Children's Home Society of Minnesota client focus group project: Parents' views on child care and child care assistance in the first year of statewide welfare reform
Minnesota. Department of Children, Families & Learning, 1999
St. Paul, MN: Wilder Research Center.

An exploration of parents’ views on the accessibility and quality of child care services under the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), a statewide welfare reform policy, based on interviews with parents of children in Children’s Home Society child care centers

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Colorado child care assessment: Need for nurse consultation services: 1999
Grimm, Susan, 1999
Denver: Colorado, Department of Public Health and Environment.

A statewide survey of the nurse health care and consultation service needs of child care centers in Colorado

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CPSC staff study of safety hazards in child care settings
U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1999
Washington, DC: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

An investigation into the safety hazards present in licensed child care settings, based on a visits to 220 child care centers by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

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Can ready-to-eat cereal solve common nutritional problems in child-care menus?
Briley, Margaret E., 1999
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 99(3), 341-343

A summary of a study on the potential benefit and plausibility of increasing the amount of whole grain cereal in child care facility menus

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Early childhood education and care policy in Sweden
Sweden. Utbildningsdepartementet (Sweden. Ministry of Education and Sciences/Sweden Ministry of Education and Research), 1999
Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

An examination of Sweden’s child care and early education policies, funding, quality, equity, availability, workforce, family roles, and environmental influences, which is part of an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) cross-national review to improve child care and early education in all OECD countries

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Early intervention: What's next?
Bailey, Jr., Donald B., October 1999
(NCEDL Spotlights No. 15). Chapel Hill, NC: National Center for Early Development and Learning.

A discussion of goals for the improvement and development of early childhood intervention services

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Effects of first aid training using small group instruction with young children with disabilities
Timko, Tamara C., 1999
Journal of Early Intervention, 22(4), 323-336

An examination of a first aid training procedure on the acquisition, maintenance and generalization of children with disabilities seeking adult assistance in response to simulated injuries

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Epidemiology and assessment of mental health in poverty populations: Implications for Head Start
Randolph, Suzanne M., 1999
NHSA Dialog, 2(2), 204-231

A panel discussion assessing the mental health services of Head Start programs, focusing on identification, screening, interventions, and teacher and parent roles

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Estimating the unmet need for child care: A practical approach using a child care illustration
Queralt, Magaly, 1999
(Wellesley College Working Paper 99-05). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics

A description and illustration of a method for locating and estimating unmet demand for child care services in Massachusetts neighborhoods, redesigned for social agency interpretation and practical application

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Estimating the unmet need for services: A middling approach
Queralt, Magaly, 1999
Social Service Review, 73(4), 524-559

A description of the method and results of an unmet demand estimate for child care services in neighborhoods in Hampden County, Massachusetts

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An evaluation of the special needs referral process for low-income preschool children with emotional and behavioral problems
Fantuzzo, John W., 1999
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14(4), 465-482

Two separate evaluations of a Head Start program's referral process of recommending children for comprehensive evaluations of their needs when emotional and behavioral problems are displayed

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Executive summary: Colorado child care assessment
Colorado. Department of Public Health and Environment, August 1999
Denver: Colorado, Department of Public Health and Environment.

A summary of a statewide survey of the nurse health care and consultation service needs of child care centers in Colorado

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Family support in Romania and the UK: Different circumstances, similar challenges
Dickens, Jonathan, 1999
Children & Society, 13(3), 155-166

An overview of the challenges of refocusing family social work services towards family support in Romania and the United Kingdom

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Getting a "Head Start" in collaborative partnerships
Peart, Norman A., 1999
NHSA Dialog, 2(3), 389-404

An examination of the collaboration between Head Start and North Carolina’s Smart Start Initiative, focusing on factors that enhance or diminish collaborative relationships, issues that arise during collaboration’s implementation, and the structures that need to be built to increase the success and length of collaborations, based on data collected over a 2-year period through interviews with parents, Smart Start leaders and planners, and local and state Head Start agency representatives

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A guide to successful public-private partnerships for child care
Child Care Partnership Project (U.S.), 1999
Fairfax, VA: National Child Care Information Center.

A discussion of how to create and maintain public-private partnerships in order to increase and improve child care throughout the United States.

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