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			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 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 among child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten: A telephone survey of selected southern states Campbell, Dottie, 2002 Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families. A survey of select southern states collaborative projects between child care, head start and prekindergarten	Reports & Papers
			Comprehensive school reform: An implementation study of preschool programs in elementary schools Desimone, Laura, 2004 Elementary School Journal, 104(5), 369-389 A discussion of the implementation of preschool programs in elementary schools, based on information gathered from focus group interviews with 42 preschool and kindergarten teachers and 53 parents from 10 schools in 5 states	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 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
			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
			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
			Generations unite for quality pre-k: Kentucky Generations United, June 2008 Washington, DC: Generations United. A proposal of a strategy for senior citizens to advocate for the expansion of high-quality early childhood education and prekindergarten programs in Kentucky	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
			Hours of opportunity: Vol. 2. The power of data to improve after-school programs citywide McCombs, Jennifer Sloan, 2010 (MG-1037/1-WF). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation. A study of the use of management information systems in out-of-school time systems in Denver, Colorado, Louisville, Kentucky, and San Francisco, and in initiatives in Boston, Chicago, New York City, Providence, Rhode Island, and Washington, DC	Reports & Papers
			Kentucky STARS for KIDS NOW process evaluation: Evaluation of Kentucky's child care resource & referral system Starr, Rebecca, January, 2012 (Evaluation Brief No. 7). Washington, DC: Child Trends. A study of the child care resource and referral system in Kentucky, including provider and parent services and community stakeholder collaboration, based on surveys of resource and referral training participants, interviews with resource and referral agency staff and stakeholders, and analyses of administrative and other secondary data	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
			Meaningful linkages between summer programs, schools, and community partners: Conditions and strategies for success McLaughlin, Brenda, 2009 Baltimore: National Summer Learning Association. An examination of strategies to develop partnerships among schools, community organizations, and out-of-school time summer programs, based on interviews with providers of 11 summer programs that have established successful partnerships	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
			Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States Smith, Linda K., June, 2003 Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012) 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	Reports & Papers
			Pre-kindergarten in the south: Preserving the region's comparative advantage in education Southern Education Foundation, 2010 Atlanta, GA: Southern Education Foundation. An examination of the provision of prekindergarten services in the Southern United States, and a discussion of early childhood education as the region's comparative educational advantage	Reports & Papers
			State policy as an influence on the participation of young children with medical needs in childcare Bruder, Mary Beth, 2004 Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 24(2), 68-75 An examination of state policies that affect the participation of children with complex medical needs in licensed child care, based on interviews with informants from a wide range of state departments and agencies	Reports & Papers
			Strategies for promoting prevention and improving oral health care delivery in Head Start: Findings from the Oral Health Initiative evaluation: Vol I. Final technical report United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October 01, 2008 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Final findings from a two-year implementation evaluation of the Head Start Oral Health Initiative, which provided grants to Head Start programs to design and implement oral health promotion strategies, based on interviews with program directors, a web-based record-keeping system for grantees, and site visits	Reports & Papers
			Technical assistance for quality child care: State administrators' perspectives United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. Office of Evaluation and Inspections, 1999 (OEI-07-97-00420). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. A report on state child care administrators' perceptions of the technical assistance provided under contract from the Administration for Children and Families	Reports & Papers
			Vaccination coverage among children enrolled in Head Start programs and licensed child care centers and entering school: United States and selected reporting areas, 1999-2000 school year Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), 2001 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 50(39), 847-855 A compilation of vaccination rates of children in early years settings, based on school-based surveys from 64 programs in the fifty states, eight territories, five cities, and the District of Columbia in the United States	Reports & Papers

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