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
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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Navigating the "perfect storm": Moving from plan to action during an economic downturn: The experiences of four Discovery communities that received 2008-2009 partnership planning grants
An examination of the role of Discovery, a Connecticut initiative to build the capacity of communities and state advocacy organizations to influence early childhood policy and practice, in the development and implementation of community early childhood planning efforts, based on group interviews held in the Connecticut communities of Meriden, New Britain, Torrington, and Waterbury
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The state of preschool 2011: State preschool yearbook
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
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The Discovery Initiative: 2004-2009: Final summative evaluation report
An evaluation of Discovery, a Connecticut initiative to build the capacity of communities and state advocacy organizations to influence early childhood policy and practice, that examines initiative outcomes related to community and state collaborative infrastructure and to parent and stakeholder engagement, and that also explores initiative contributions to community and state policies and practices and to public support for early childhood issues, based on data from multiple sources, including Discovery staff, grantees, and stakeholders, as well as initiative documents, events, and activities
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Welfare policies and adolescents: Exploring the roles of sibling care, maternal work schedules, and economic resources
A study of the relationship between adolescent school performance and participation and maternal employment and changes in families' reliance on sibling care due to welfare reform, based on data from three longitudinal experimental evaluations of: (1) the Jobs First Evaluation conducted in New Haven and Manchester, Connecticut; (2) the Family Transition Program conducted in Escambia County, Florida; and (3) the statewide Indiana Welfare Reform Program
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Municipal leadership for afterschool: Citywide approaches spreading across the country
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
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