Estimating sustainability and comprehensiveness in the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Final report
An analysis of participating states' post-grant prospects for sustaining and broadening programs funded under the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce
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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report
A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits
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The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers
A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida’s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota’s Family Investment Program (MFIP)
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The California Child Care Workforce Study: 2001 preliminary results and future plans
Preliminary findings from an investigation of the licensed child care center and family child care workforce in Alameda, Kern, Monetery, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties, California
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English literacy levels of the early care and education workforce: A profile and associations with quality of care
A report examining the literacy levels of early childhood educators in Alameda County, California
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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States
A national study of child care resource and referral agencies, including services provided to parents and providers, sources and levels of agency funding, and agency data collecting activities, based on a survey of state child care resource and referral agencies
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Evaluation of the Local Investment in Child Care project: Final report
An evaluation of the Local Investment in Child Care (LINCC) project, an initiative to integrate the child care industry into communities’ economic infrastructure and to improve families’ access to high-quality child care services
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Report on the second round of the Quality Child Care Initiative (QCCI): Final report
A history of the history, implementation, and funding activities of the second round of the Quality Child Care Initiative, a Bay Area, California, collaborative of funders whose grantmaking efforts aimed to improve child care quality, based on document analysis and review and interviews with funders and grantees
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Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade
A study of the relationship between early child care experiences in a child's first 3 years of life and mother-child interaction through the child's transition to school
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The NICHD Study of Early Child Care: Contexts of development and developmental outcomes over the first seven years of life
A description of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care’s examination of the relationship between child care and children's development over the first seven years of life
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A case study of Alameda County Child Development Corps: Year 2 qualitative implementation study (QIS)
A report describing the perspectives and experiences of stakeholders during the second year of the implementation of Alameda County's Child Development Corps as a child care retention-incentive program
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A case study of San Francisco County CARES: Year 2 qualitative implementation study (QIS)
An account of the perspectives and experiences of stakeholders in San Francisco County's CARES child care retention-incentive program during the second year of implementation
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San Diego CARES: Program impact survey: Family child care homes: Evaluation report to the YMCA Childcare Resource Service
A study of the impact on participating family child care providers of CARES, a stipend-based program to reduce turnover and advance professional development of child care workers, in San Diego County, California, based on a survey of family child care providers and administrative data
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Assessing school readiness in Santa Mateo County 2002: Results from the 2002 School Readiness Assessment Project
A study of children's skills at kindergarten entry and family and early childhood education factors associated with those skills in San Mateo County, California, based on kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments
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