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			The afterschool hours: A new focus for America's cities Ouellette, Mark, 2005 Washington, DC: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families. An overview of a project established by the National League of Cities' (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF) to assist local communities in improving and expanding their after school programming	Reports & Papers
			Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report United States. Office of Head Start, 12 December, 2011 Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Head Start. An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents	Reports & Papers
			The Build Initiative: Building early learning systems in the states: A report on the fourth year Bruner, Charles, June 2007 Cross Lanes, WV: Build Initiative. An examination of the contributions of the Build Initiative in its fourth year of fostering of state partnerships to develop comprehensive systems of early learning and care	Reports & Papers
			The Build Initiative: Building early learning systems in the states: A report on the third year Bruner, Charles, April, 2006 Cross Lanes, WV: Building Initiative. A report on the contributions of the Build Initiative in efforts to build statewide systems of early learning and care	Reports & Papers
			Child care arrangements for children under five: Variation across states Capizzano, Jeffrey, 2000 (Series B, No. B-7). Washington, DC: Urban Institute. A study of the primary child care arrangements of children under five whose mothers are employed, as well as of the variations in patterns of child care arrangements by state, by the child's age, and by the income status of the child's family.	Reports & Papers
			Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report United States. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, December, 2006 Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012) A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives	Reports & Papers
			Child care in rural areas: Top challenges Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states	Reports & Papers
			Child care: States increased spending on low-income families United States. General Accounting Office, 2001 (GAO-01-293). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. A study of how states spend child care funds made available through Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and how they provide child care subsidies to eligible families.	Reports & Papers
			Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund 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	Reports & Papers
			Collaboration of teacher education and child disability health care: Transdisciplinary approach to inclusive practice for early childhood pre-service teachers Silverman, Katie, April 2010 Early Childhood Education Journal, 37(6), 461-468 A description of collaborative efforts between an early childhood teacher education program and a child disability health care program to incorporate a transdisciplinary model in the preparation of early childhood teachers for practice in inclusive classrooms	Reports & Papers
			A descriptive study of the Head Start Health Component: Vol. II. Technical report United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, 1996 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families. Descriptive findings from a study of the Head Start Health Component, using child health records and standard data from the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR), plus observations and interviews with parents and staff, collected during the Spring of 1994 from a sample of 80 Head Start centers	Reports & Papers
			Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons Schilder, Diane, 2003 Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families. An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents� child care needs	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood mental health services: Four state case studies Sopko, Kimberly M., December 2009 Alexandria, VA: Project Forum at NASDSE. An exploration of state models to address the four components - consultation, professional development, collaboration, and financing - of comprehensive early childhood mental health (ECMH) systems, based on case studies of service delivery systems in Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood programs: Parent education and income best predict participation United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1994 (GAO/HEHS-95-47). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. A report on the demographic factors of children that best predict preschool participation	Reports & Papers
			The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers Gassman-Pines, Anna, 2003 (Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 19). New York: MDRC. A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida�s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota�s Family Investment Program (MFIP)	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of Head Start Family Child Care Demonstration: Final report United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families. Commissioner's Office of Research and Evaluation, 2000 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Commissioner's Office of Research and Evaluation. An evaluation of the Head Start Family Child Care Demonstration Project to examine the efficacy of providing Head Start services through the alternative delivery system of family child care homes	Reports & Papers
			An evidence based approach to estimating the national and state-by-state costs of an integrated prek-3rd education program Picus, Larry, January, 2009 North Hollywood, CA: Lawrence O. Picus and Associates. A study of the national and state costs of providing universal, high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education, derived from an evidence-based model for identifying the components and estimating the costs of high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education in a prototypical elementary school	Reports & Papers
			Expanding access to Early Head Start: State initiatives for infants & toddlers at risk Colvard, Jamie, September, 2012 Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy. A study of state efforts to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on interviews with Head Start-state collaboration administrators in 23 states	Reports & Papers
			A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies Schulman, Karen, 2001 Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund. (No longer accessible as of December 7, 2012). 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.	Reports & Papers
			A framework for describing variations in state early intervention systems Spiker, Donna, 2000 Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 20(4), 195-207 A description of a framework designed to describe variations in states' early intervention programs, focusing on domains such as interagency issues, eligibility criteria, extent of within-state variation, models of intake, and models of service coordination	Reports & Papers
			Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1998 (GAO/HEHS-98-65). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services	Reports & Papers
			Hygienic practices and acute respiratory illness in family and group day care homes Sauver, Jennifer St., November/December 1998 Public Health Reports, 113(6), 544-551 A study of hygene practices and their association with the prevalence of respiratory illnesses at child care centers and family child care sites	Reports & Papers
			Making quality count: Lessons from the Ready by 21 Quality Counts initiative Yohalem, Nicole, October, 2010 Washington, DC: Forum for Youth Investment. A description of the Ready by 21 Quality Counts initiative, a systems-building model for the improvement of the quality and capacity of out of school time programming, based on information from the implementation of the model at 7 community sites and 6 state sites	Reports & Papers
			Municipal leadership for afterschool: Citywide approaches spreading across the country Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, 2011 Washington, DC: Institute for Youth, Education, and Families. An examination and profiles of city-led efforts to build comprehensive out-of-school time systems, based on surveys and interviews with representatives from 27 cities	Reports & Papers
			National evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program: 1994-1997 final report United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 1998 Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service. The second national evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, examining what has changed and what has remained stable over its first eight years, specifically addressing who and what is served by the program, federal funding methods, participant's developmental and educational gains, best practices, and the success with which the program is reaching its target population	Reports & Papers

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