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			Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010 National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (U.S.), January, 2011 Aurora, CO: National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care. A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity	Reports & Papers
			A comparative analysis of subsidized and non-subsidized relative child care homes in Kansas Curry, Susan Willard, 2011 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Kansas State University, Manhattan A comparison of the quality of care provided by family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in Kansas who do or do not receive child care subsidies, based on observations of and interviews with 22 caregivers and on focus groups with 5 caregivers	Reports & Papers
			Double Jeopardy: Poorer social-emotional outcomes for children in the NICHD SECCYD experiencing home and child-care environments that confer risk Watamura, Sarah, January/February 2011 Child Development, 82(1), 48-65 A study of the relationships between both home and child care quality and the socioemotional adjustment of groups of children in five different environments at ages 24, 36, and 54 months, based on a secondary analysis of data from 771 children	Reports & Papers
			Early care and education state budget actions FY 2011 National Conference of State Legislatures, August, 2011 Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures. A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2011, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories	Reports & Papers
			Evaluation of the 40-Hour Initial Pre-Service Training for Entry-Level Child Care Providers Thorman, Abigail E., July, 2011 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. An evaluation of the 40-Hour Initial Pre-Service Training for Entry-Level Child Care Providers, an interactive online training, that examines participant experiences of and knowledge gains from the training and changes to resource and referral agency training and technical assistance offerings, based on pre- and posttest participant knowledge assessments, individual lesson analyses, participant focus groups, and resource and referral agency staff interviews	Reports & Papers
			Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality Torquati, Julia C., Q4 2011 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26(4), 453-464 A study of the relationship between differences in observed program quality and parent perceived program quality among parents with various family income, parents' education, parents' perceived constraints in selecting child care, and type of selected child care, based on data from 1,313 parents by children in poor, low-income, and non-low-income families in 4 Midwestern state	Reports & Papers
			Neighborhood community influences on preschool children's development and school readiness Hanson, Marci, January-March 2011 Infants and Young Children, 24(1), 87-100 An examination of the influence of socioeconomic disadvantage and language isolation on children's social skills and academic outcomes, based on a sample of 1,006 four-year-old children, including 195 English language learners (ELLs) and 164 children with disabilities	Reports & Papers
			A nutrition and physical activity intervention for family child care homes Trost, Stewart G., October, 2011 American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 41(4), 392-398 A study of the effect of the Healthy Kansas Kids workshops for family child care providers on the self-reported measures of nutrition and physical activity at family child care homes across Kansas	Reports & Papers
			Parents and the high cost of child care: 2011 report National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, August, 2011 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, preschool-age children, and school-age children in 2010, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies	Reports & Papers
			Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role of child care resource and referral agencies National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, August, 2011 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. A study of child care center obesity prevention practices and child care resource and referral agency health-related training and technical assistance offerings, based on a survey of 113 agencies from 29 states	Reports & Papers
			State child care assistance policies 2011: Reduced support for families in challenging times Schulman, Karen, October, 2011 Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center. A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2010 and February 2011 and between 2001 and February 2011, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of state child care administrators	Reports & Papers
			State early childhood advisory councils: An overview of implementation across the states National Governors' Association. Center for Best Practices, 2011 Washington, DC: National Governors' Association, Center for Best Practices. An examination of developments and variation among state early childhood advisory councils, based on a review of state applications for grants provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as updates provided by council leadership	Reports & Papers
			State-level indicators for social-emotional development: Building better systems Isakson, Elizabeth A., February 2011 New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty. A discussion of systems of child socioemotional wellbeing indicators and an examination of state efforts to develop such systems, based on a survey of state early childhood comprehensive systems coordinators	Reports & Papers
			The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook Barnett, W. Steven, 2011 New Brunswick, NJ: National Institute for Early Education Research. An annual review of access to, quality in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2010-2011 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs	Reports & Papers
			A two-generational child-focused program enhanced with employment services: Eighteen-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project United States. Administration for Children and Families, March, 2011 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families. Interim findings on the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri	Reports & Papers
			We can do better: 2011 update: NACCRRA's ranking of state child care center regulations and oversight National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, March 2011 Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. A ranking of state regulation and oversight of child care centers, based on an analysis of state child care licensing regulations	Reports & Papers

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