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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

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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 [Executive summary]
United States. Office of Head Start, 12 December, 2011
Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Head Start.

A summary of 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

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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (CCDF) [United States]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Child Care . Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2008 [Computer file]. ICPSR30423-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR30423

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.

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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (CCDF) [United States]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Child Care . Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2009. ICPSR33502-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-06-22. doi:10.3886/ICPSR33502.v1

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.

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The Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Profiles of the partnership teams: Final report
United States. Office of Head Start, 22 November, 2011
Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Head Start.

Profiles of 22 partnership teams participating in Early Head Start for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers

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Foster children and placement stability: The role of child care assistance
Meloy, Mary Elizabeth Corrington, September-October 2012
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 33(6), 252-259

A study of the relationship between child care assistance receipt and placement disruptions among foster children under the age of 5, based on data from 18,944 children in foster care for at least three months in Illinois

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Quality in family, friend, and neighbor child care settings
Susman-Stillman, Amy R., May 2011
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

A review of research on issues related to the quality of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care, including structural and process quality in FFN child care settings, parental perceptions of FFN care, and the relationship between FFN care and child outcomes

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State and territory afterschool profiles: National profile
Afterschool Investments Project, 2011
Washington, DC: Afterschool Investments Project.

An overview of the characteristics of out-of-school time policies, funding sources, and service delivery in the United States

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Understanding parents' child care decision-making: A foundation for child care policy making
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, February 2011
(Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief OPRE 2011-12). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

An elaboration of a chart of the factors that influence the parental child care decisionmaking process

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'You have to choose your childcare to fit your work': Childcare decision-making among low-income working families
Sandstrom, Heather, September, 2012
Journal of Children & Poverty, 18(2), 89-119

Findings from a three-year study of child care preferences among low income working families and the factors that can influence their child care decisions, including parental employment contexts, early care and education supply, and related program policies, based on data from 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and White Center/Seattle, Washington

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