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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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