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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report [Executive summary]
United States. Employment and Training Administration. Office of Apprenticeship, Training, Employer and Labor Services, 30 April, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.

A summary of 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

Executive Summary


New hope for children and families: Five-year results of a program to reduce poverty and reform welfare: Executive summary
Huston, Aletha C., 2003
New York: MDRC.

A summary of research findings evaluating a program designed to assist low income people secure employment and reduce poverty

Executive Summary


Preserving the gains, rethinking the losses: Welfare in Illinois five years after reform: Summary of third annual report
University Consortium on Welfare Reform, 2003
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research.

A summary of the third in a series of reports using measures of the employment outcomes and family well-being of a sample of 1998 TANF grantees to assess the ongoing value of Illinois' 1997 welfare reforms

Executive Summary


Child care programs in Vermont: A survey of market rates and capacity [Executive summary]
Learning Partners, Inc., 2003
Waterbury: Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Child Care Services Division.

A summary of findings from a study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Vermont in 2002, including information on enrollment, capacity, accreditation, nonstandard hour care, additional fees, impact of subsidy rates, and differences between subsidies and program fees

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Child care meets health care: What other states can teach us about insuring the child care workforce in Illinois [Executive summary]
Day Care Action Council of Illinois, July, 2003
Chicago: Day Care Action Council of Illinois.

A summary of an exploration of program models for the provision of health insurance to early childhood workers, and recommendations for the development of a framework to provide health care coverage to early childhood workers in Illinois, based on case studies of programs currently implemented in California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and North Carolina

Executive Summary


The economic impact of the child care industry in Maine: Executive summary
Hildebrand, Alex, 2003
Portland, ME: People's Regional Opportunity Program.

A summary of a discussion of the role of the child care industry in Maine's economic health

Executive Summary


The child care industry: Supporting jobs and economic development in Minneapolis [Executive summary]
Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association, 2003
Minneapolis, MN: Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association.

A summary of an analysis of child care in Minneapolis as a service for working parents and their children and as a component of the local economy

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Poised for shaping results-based early learning systems: A report on child care resource and referral in the United States [Executive summary]
Smith, Linda K., June, 2003
Washington, DC: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

A summary of 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

Executive Summary


Families and children 2001: Work and childcare [Executive summary]
Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions, 2003
(Research Report No. 191). Leeds, United Kingdom: Corporate Document Services.

A summary of a 2001 survey of balancing work and child care among families with dependent children in the United Kingdom

Executive Summary


''Reaching for the stars'' center validation study: Executive summary
Norris, Deborah J., November, 2003
Norman, OK: Early Childhood Collaborative of Oklahoma.

A summary of an evaluation of the Reaching for the Stars program which rates the quality of licensed child care centers in Oklahoma

Executive Summary


Moving towards a system: Tools, benchmarks, and standards: Preview
Illinois Facilities Fund, 2003
Chicago: Illinois Facilities Fund.

A summary of an early childhood program needs assessment conducted for the highest-need Illinois counties and municipalities

Executive Summary


Report on the second round of the Quality Child Care Initiative (QCCI): Executive summary
Quality Child Care Initiative, October 01, 2003
Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.

A summary of the 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

Executive Summary


2002 census of child care services: Summary booklet
Australia. Department of Family and Community Services, 2003
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia, Department of Family and Community Services.

A summary of findings from the 2002 Australian Government census of all child care providers receiving government funding, which provided information on services offered, children served, and child care staff

Executive Summary


Early childhood care and education sector study: Prior learning assessment and recognition early childhood education: Executive summary
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, 2003
Saskatchewan, Canada: Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology.

An executive summary of a pilot study of a professional training model to help Saskatchewan child care workers meet new certification standards

Executive Summary


Experiences of lone parents from minority ethnic communities [Executive summary]
Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions, 2003
(Research Report No. 187). Leeds, United Kingdom: Corporate Document Services.

A summary of a survey of the reluctance of ethnic minority lone parents to join the New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP) job program

Executive Summary


Characteristics of Sure Start local programme areas: Rounds 1 to 4: Profiles of Rounds 1 to 4 Sure Start local programme areas and a sample of Round 5, to-be-Sure Start local programme areas [Executive summary]
Sure Start (Programme), June, 2003
(Report No. 03). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A summary of a study of the changes in the Sure Start local programs for disadvantaged children under five years of age in the United Kingdom

Executive Summary


Financing strategies to support a coherent early care and education system in Hawai'i [Executive summary]
Vast, Teresa, 2003
Honolulu, HI: Good Beginnings Alliance.

A summary of an exploration of strategies to develop and fund an early childhood education and care system in Hawaii

Executive Summary


Go where they are: Working with child care programs to reach California's uninsured children [Executive summary]
100% Campaign: Health Insurance for Every California Child, 2003
Oakland, CA: 100% Campaign: Health Insurance for Every California Child.

A summary of a study of the association between child care and health insurance providers to improve health coverage among children in California

Executive Summary


Iowa family child care providers' survey: Executive summary
Iowa Early Care and Education Professional Development, January, 2003
(CD-DIAL No. 146). Ames: Iowa State University, Community Development-Data Information & Analysis Laboratory.

A summary of a study of the characteristics of family child care providers in Iowa, including education, qualifications, wages, benefits, and turnover, based on surveys and focus groups

Executive Summary


Zoom: The impact of early childhood leadership training on role perceptions, job performance, and career decisions [Executive summary]
Bella, Jill, 2003
Wheeling, IL: National-Louis University, Center for Early Childhood Leadership.

A summary of a study regarding the effects of two leadership-training programs on child care center directors' role perceptions, job performance, and career decisions

Executive Summary


Healthy Steps: The first three years: Executive Summary
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Women's and Children's Health Policy Center, 2003
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. Bloomberg School of Public Health, Women's and Children's Health Policy Center.

A summary of an evaluation of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program, a pediatric primary care intervention, based on a cohort of children from birth to age 3 at 15 evaluation sites located throughout the United States, including a cost/benefit analysis of the program and an assessment of its sustainability

Executive Summary


Critical hours: Afterschool programs and educational success: Executive summary
Miller, Beth M., 2003
Quincy, MA: Nellie Mae Education Foundation.

A summary of a larger report that reviews the links between out-of-school time, after school programs and the positive development of early adolescents

Executive Summary


Louisiana child care market rate survey 2003 [Executive summary]
Louisiana. Department of Social Services, 2003
Atlanta, GA: Care Solutions.

The summary of findings from a study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Louisiana in 2003, including information on special services offered and fees charged, length of time providing child care, accreditation, pay rates, and credentials and educational attainment

Executive Summary


Systems of service delivery: A synthesis of evidence relevant to young children at risk of or who have challenging behavior [Executive summary]
Smith, Barbara J., 2003
Tampa, FL: Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior.

A summary of a compilation of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of services or systems that support or promote positive outcomes for children who have or are at risk of having behavior that interferes with or is at risk of interfering with optimal learning or engagement in pro-social interactions with peers and adults

Executive Summary


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