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			Investing in the child care industry: An economic development strategy for Louisiana Louisiana. Office of Family Support, 2005 Baton Rouge: Louisiana, Office of Family Support. An exploration of the economic impact of the child care industry in Louisiana	Reports & Papers
			Creating family support systems: In Head Start and beyond Gage, Jim A., 1994 Young Children, 50(1), 74-77 A discussion of the public policy interest in creating adequate family support systems through early childhood programs funded by state and federal initiative, such as the Family Services Center funded by the Head Start and Even Start programs and projects funded by the Child Care and Development Care Block Grant	Reports & Papers
			Family support in the home: Programs, policy and social change Roberts, Richard N., 1991 American Psychologist, 46(2), 131-137 A discussion of research and policy on home visiting parent support programs and their potential benefits for families	Reports & Papers
			Family support: The role of early years' centers Kirk, Rosalind, 2002 Children & Society, 17(2), 85-99 A longitudinal mixed quantitative and qualitative examination of changes in parents� support networks and family well-being among 85 families using child care services in 6 child care centers in a disadvantaged urban area in Scotland	Reports & Papers
			School breakfast clubs, children and family support Shemilt, Ian, 2002 Children & Society, 17(2), 100-112 A national evaluation of the introduction of school breakfast programs in the United Kingdom, using a multidisciplinary approach to examine the characteristics of the program, the experiences of participants and families, the effectiveness of the program in terms of a range of potential outcomes, and economic issues	Reports & Papers
			The price of a loaf of bread: Some conceptions of family support Penn, Helen, 2002 Children & Society, 16(1), 17-32 An investigation of the implementation the 1989 Children Act in one local authority in a northwest borough of Britain	Reports & Papers
			Can family-support policies explain differences in working hours across countries? Sila, Urban, October 2009 (CEP Discussion Paper No. 955). London, England, United Kingdom: London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance. An exploration of the role of public family-support programs in variations in mothers' working hours across countries, based on an analysis of household data from the European Household Panel (ECHP) and the United States Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1998 through 2001	Reports & Papers
			Preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders: The impact on families and the supports available to them Cassidy, Arlene, February 2008 Early Child Development and Care, 178(2), 115-128 A study of parents of children with autism regarding their perceptions of their childrens' difficulties and impact on family life, and the support programs available and potentially available to their families, based on a survey of 104 parents in Northern Ireland	Reports & Papers
			The work-family support roles of child care providers across settings Bromer, Juliet, Q3 2009 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24(3), 271-288 A qualitative investigation of provider perceptions of their supportive roles for families meeting work- and family-related needs, based on interviews and questionnaire responses of a sample of 29 child care providers serving low income families in the Chicago area	Reports & Papers
			Family child care, family support, and community development in low-income neighborhoods Bromer, Juliet, November 2002 Zero to Three, 23(2), 33-37 A study of the formal and informal support offered to families, children, and communities by a selection of family child care providers from low income neighborhoods, based on interviews with 7 African American providers and 14 parents from 2 neighboring Chicago communities	Reports & Papers
			Linking child care and family support: Three successful collaborations California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, 2005 San Francisco: California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. A paper describing how collaboration between professional groups impacted three California communities' child care supply and accessibility	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
			Cognitive and family-support mediators of preschool intervention: A confirmatory analysis Reynolds, Arthur J., 1996 Child Development, 67(3), 1119-1140 A study of the mediators of the effects of preschool intervention on 360 low-income children�s school achievement in the sixth grade	Reports & Papers
			Family support: An investigation of services preferred by families of young children enrolled in child-care centers Jones, Nancy N., 1996 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas Woman's University, Denton A dissertation focusing on the differences in preferred child care centers by families who were experiencing various levels of high stress and whose families included preschool children in North Texas	Reports & Papers
			Family support through childcare services: Meeting the needs of asylum-seeking and refugee families Dolan, Nicola, April 2010 Child Care in Practice, 16(2), 147-165 A qualitative study of the access to and participation of refugee and asylum seeking parents in local child care services from focus groups and interviews with 16 parents, 5 child care practitioners, and 2 support and development staff in a small county in the northwest of Ireland	Reports & Papers
			Family support: Fostering leadership and partnership to improve access and quality Thompson, Lisa, 2004 (Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 14). University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy. A discussion of the family support component of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative	Reports & Papers
			Prevention as cumulative protection: Effects of early family support and education on chronic delinquency and its risks Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, 1994 Psychological Bulletin, 115(1), 28-54 A study of the effects of early family support and education prevention in curbing chronic juvenile delinquency and crime	Reports & Papers
			National evaluation of family support programs: Final report Volume A: The meta-analysis United States. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, April 2001 Washington, DC: U.S. Administration on Children, Youth, and Families. Findings from an analysis of the results of the mass of research studies and evaluations of family support interventions conducted within the last 25-30 years, including assessment of the collective outcomes of the primary research and of the effectiveness of the programs studied	Reports & Papers
			Comparison of accredited and non-accredited family child care programs on program quality, provider professionalism, and family support Smith, Anita Payne, 1996 Child & Youth Care Forum, 25(6), 353-378 A 1996 examination of the differences between accredited and non-accredited family-based child care programs in program quality, job professionalism, spousal support, and family functioning through analysis of the Family Day Care Assessment Profile and questionnaire results obtained from 39 registered Georgia family child care providers	Reports & Papers
			Beyond child care: The informal family support and community roles of African-American child care providers Bromer, Juliet, August 2006 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois An examination of the social support and community-building roles of African-American non-parental child care providers serving low-income families, drawing information from carework literature and Black feminist scholarship	Reports & Papers
			Employer offered family support programs, gender and voluntary and involuntary part-time work Zeytinoglu, Isik U., Spring 2010 Relations Industrielles=Industrial Relations, 65(2), 177-195 A study of differences in the availability of employer-provided child care and elder care programs to male and female employees and to employees who work full-time, voluntarily part-time, or involuntarily part time, based on a secondary analysis of survey data collected from Canadian employers and employees in 2003	Reports & Papers
			An analysis of kin-provided child care in the context of intrafamily exchanges: Linking components of family support for parents raising young children Brandon, Peter D., 2000 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 59(2), 191-216 A study of the relationship between kin-provided child care and in-kind resource exchanges within extended families	Reports & Papers
			Sampling errors and confidence intervals for order statistics: Implementing the Family Support Act and welfare reform Horrace, William, 1998 Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 24(3-4), 181-207 A study of child care market rates across the state of Massachusetts in 1993 and 1994, including a statistical analysis of child care subsidy reimbursement percentiles and issues involved in calculating those percentiles	Reports & Papers
			Integrating early-childhood and family-support services with a school improvement process: The Comer-Zigler initiative Finn-Stevenson, Matia, 1997 Elementary School Journal, 98(1), 51-66 A description of the first implementation of two collaborative initiatives, School of the 21st Century and School Development Program (CoZi), in an urban southeastern school and plans for evaluation and wider dissemination	Reports & Papers
			Effectiveness of a comprehensive, five-year family support program for low-income children and their families: Findings from the Comprehensive Child Development Program Goodson, Barbara D., 2000 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15(1), 5-39 A randomized experiment to evaluate the effects of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP), a two-generation program that includes case management and home visiting on the cognitive and socioemotional development of children and the socioeconomic status of their families, from 21 CCDP projects that tracked 4,410 families for five years	Reports & Papers

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