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Addressing behavioral outcomes in Connecticut's child care centers: An evaluation of the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP)
Fink, Dale Borman, December, 2003
Farmington, CT: University of Connecticut, A. J. Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.

Findings from an evaluation of the first year of the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP), a system of early childhood mental health consultation in Connecticut, with a focus on services provided to children and the training and development of early childhood professionals

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Child care health consultation: The Connecticut experience
Crowley, Angela A., March 2000
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 4(1), 67-75

A survey-based study of Connecticut child care center directors and their health consultants to determine the impact of the child care health consultation programs and the experiences of the child care centers with the programs

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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

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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

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Childhood social environment and Hodgkin's lymphoma: New findings from a population-based case-control study
Chang, Ellen T., 2004
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 13(8), 1361-1370

A study examining the potential relationship between childhood social environments and incidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma

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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

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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

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From policy to practice: Implementation of water policies in child care centers in Connecticut
Middleton, Ann E., March/April 2013
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 45(2), 119-125

A documentation of the availability and accessibility of water in early care and education centers and correspondence with state and federal policy and accreditation standards in child care centers, based on data from one-day observations conducted in a random sample of 40 Child and Adult Care Food Program-participating preschool classrooms in Connecticut

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Group day care and the risk of serious infectious illnesses
Berg, Anne T., 1991
American Journal of Epidemiology, 133(2), 154-163

A study of the association between child care attendance and infectious illnesses requiring hospitalization among 193 matched pairs of young children admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital between June 1984 and November 1986

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Health matters: The role of health and the health sector in place-based initiatives for young children
Fine, Amy, November 2008
Battle Creek, MI: W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

A study of the integration of health and health services within early childhood initiatives, based on case studies of 8 initiatives

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Linking child care and health: An exploratory study of child care directors' and health professionals' perceptions of consultation and collaboration
Crowley, Angela A., 1999
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs

An examination of the nature of health consultation between child care center directors and health professionals

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Mental health consultation services in community based early childhood settings: A survey of preschool teachers
Elias, Carlita F.R., 2004
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

A descriptive study of mental health consultation services in community-based child care settings, examining service availability, preschool teachers' definitions of problems that would elicit mental health referrals, and teachers' opinions regarding mental health issues related to early childhood

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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

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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

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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

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Validity of a measure to assess the child-care nutrition and physical activity environment
Henderson, Kathryn E., September, 2011
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 111(9), 1306-1313

A comparison of outsider observers' and center directors' ratings of nutrition and physical activity environments and policies in 200 Connecticut child care centers receiving Child and Adult Care Food Program subsidies

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What works?: A study of effective early childhood mental health consultation programs
Duran, Frances, August, 2009
Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Child and Human Development.

A study of the components of effective early childhood mental health consultation programs, based on case studies of 6 programs, an online scan of all state early childhood mental health consultation activities, and a meeting of experts

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