Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report
A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives
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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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Early care and education in Chicago: Bringing families and resources together
An examination of early childhood education and care programs in Chicago, Illinois, and a discussion of challenges in the improvement of the delivery of services to the city’s families
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An early childhood program matrix: Pulling the pieces together for Illinois
A presentation of a matrix is to assist policy makers, early care and education professionals, and consumers to better understand the requirements and practices of 9 publicly funded programs in Illinois that provide services to young children and families that includes a description of program design and logistics, local community involvement with services, requirements for collaboration, personnel requirements, elements of quality assurance, and a description of processes to monitor outcomes and/or services
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Early effects of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program
An evaluation of the implementation and effects of The Healthy Steps for Young Children Program for children aged 2 to 4, focusing on services received, satisfaction with services, and parent practices
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Early Head Start and early intervention: A collaborative approach to serving infants and toddlers with disabilities in natural environments
An examination of the collaborations between Early Head Start programs and early intervention service providers for children with disabilities outlined by Part C of the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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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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Investments in building citywide out-of-school-time systems: A six-city study
An exploration of approaches to the structure of expenditures for a system of delivery of out of school time services, based on case studies of programs in Boston, Massachusetts, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, New York City, and Seattle, Washington
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Is there a difference between center and home care providers' training, perceptions, and practices related to obesity prevention?
A comparison of center and home care providers' training, practices, and written policies regarding obesity prevention, and their perceptions of both influences on children's health and factors determining food menu selection, based on data from 88 home care providers and 94 center providers who attended local child care training workshops in east central Illinois from March 2009 to August 2010
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Making quality child care affordable for Illinois’ working families
A presentation of a plan for the development and implementation of an affordable, high quality early child care system in Illinois
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Moving from welfare to work: A snapshot survey of Illinois families
An analysis of the difficulties facing families leaving the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Patterns of child care use among low-income families: Draft
A study of families' decisions regarding employment and child care arrangements, examining variations by child's age, mother's race, and other family characteristics, and assessing the impact of child care subsidies and other state policies on families' choices
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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States
A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies
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State-funded preschool and home-based child care: The Community Connections Model
A description of a mixed model service delivery system that provides children in home-based care with access to half-day, school-based preschool programs for 4 days a week and are visited by their teachers on the fifth day
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