April 13-16, 2004
The Child Care Policy Research Consortium is a national alliance of research projects sponsored by the Child Care Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Consortium's purpose is to help the Child Care Bureau increase the national capacity for sound child care research, identify and respond to critical issues, and link child care research with policy and practice.
The annual Child Care Policy Research Consortium Meeting was held on April 13-16, 2004, in Washington, DC. Materials from the conference, including summaries of sessions, PowerPoint presentations, posters and handouts are now available. To view a description of each session and relevant materials click on the links below.
Notes
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Contents
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Agenda (PDF 117K)
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Plenaries
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Breakout Sessions (PDF 110K)
Plenary: Subsidy Policies and Their Effects on Families and Children (Theme I)
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Summary (PDF 43K)
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Weber, Bobbie, Davis, Elizabeth, and Divine, Pia. Families and Subsidy (PPT 1.8MB)
Plenary: Child Care Policies and Their Effects on the Workforce (Theme II)
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Summary (PDF 46K)
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Porter, Toni. Handout (PDF 60K)
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Thornburg, Kathy. Provider Characteristics and Quality (PPT 29K)
Plenary: What Kind of Research Can Better Inform System-Level Policy Decisions?
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Summary (PDF 58K)
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Brandon, Richard. Presentation Note (PDF 17K)
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Edie, David. Challenges for a State Planner (PPT 118K)
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Warner, Mildred. Understanding the Impact of Child Care on Local Economies (PPT 841K)
Plenary: Child Characteristics, Environments, Well-Being, and School Readiness (Theme III)
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Summary (PDF 62K)
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Capizzano, Jeffrey. An Overview of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) (PPT 43K)
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Lippman, Laura. What can we learn from the National Household Education Survey? (PPT 58K)
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Manship, Karen. Child Care Statistics from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (PPT 67K)
Sessions 1-6
In Sessions 1-6 of the meeting, participants were asked to identify questions that need to be answered in order to address the larger question, What do policymakers need to know about their child care populations, services, systems, and markets in order to make informed decisions? The questions identified were then grouped to correspond generally to the three conference themes -- family, workforce, child -- and to a fourth cross-cutting category, financing and systems (click on the categories to see the questions):
Theme I: Family and Subsidy (PDF 91K)
Theme II: Workforce (PDF 83K)
Theme III: Child (PDF 103K)
Cross-Theme Category: Financing and Systems (PDF 77K)
Session 7: What do we know about the dynamics of child care selection among low-income families, especially those who use subsidies?
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Summary (PDF 105K)
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Elicker, James. Child Care for Low Income Working Families (Handout 1) (PDF 172K)
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Elicker, James. Child Care for Low Income Working Families (Handout 2) (PDF 130K)
Session 8: How do we promote school readiness in children?
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Summary (PDF 55K)
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Robeson, Wendy, and Roberts, Joanne. Quality of Infant Child Care and Infant Outcomes (PPT 33K)
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Yates, Tweety. How Do We Promote School Readiness in Children? (PPT 76K)
Session 9: Parents' choices and children's child care experiences among ethnic and language minority families and families whose child has a disability or special needs
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Summary (PDF 58K)
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Ward, Helen. Child Care and Children with Special Needs (PDF 98K)
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Weinraub, Marsha. Child Care Preferences and Child Care Choices (PDF 58K)
Session 10: What are the issues and next steps in developing common definitions and measuring professional development, training, and experiences in formal education of the early care and education workforce?
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Summary (PDF 110K)
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Brandon, Richard. Child Care Workforce Data (PPT 8K)
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Weber, Bobbie. Families and Subsidy (PDF 57K)
Session 11: How do child care subsidy and TANF policies intersect to affect child care markets and outcomes for low-income families and children?>
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Summary (PDF 56K)
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Adams, Gina. Child Care Providers and the Subsidy System (PPT 11K)
Session 12: Administrative Data: Putting it together, using it, and framing new initiatives
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Summary (PDF 71K)
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Duran, Frances. Reshaping Administrative Databases Into Tools for Policy-Relevant Research (PDF 398K)
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Southwick, Rod. Massachusetts Early Care and Education Data Warehouse (JPG 648K)
Session 13: How do subsidies affect employment options and outcomes for low-income families?
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Summary (PDF 95K)
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Jefferys, Marcie. Working in Minnesota Report (PPT 1.5MB)
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Press, Julie. Taking Pressure off of Families (PDF 258K)
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Reidy, Mairead. Child Care Subsidy Use and Employment Outcomes of TANF Mothers During the Early Years of Welfare Reform (PPT 76K)
Session 14: Unpacking process quality: What constructs do we need for measures to get at the relationship between process quality and positive child outcomes?
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Summary (PDF 61K)
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Porter, Toni. Upacking Process Quality (PDF 49K)
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Ramey, Sharon. Measuring "Quality" in Child Care and Early Education (PPT 14K)
Session 15: What are we learning about home-based child care -- care provided by regulated and unregulated family child care providers and by family members, friends, and neighbors who are legally exempt from regulation?
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Summary (PDF 889K)
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Crowell, Nancy. Two Years in Early Care and Education (PDF 55K)
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Ramsburg, Dawn. Illinois Study of License-Exempt Child Care (PDF 70K)
Session 16: What can we say about the effectiveness of efforts to improve child care market functioning by providing comparative information on child care facilities to parents?
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Summary (PDF 117K)
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Weber, Bobbie. Providing Comparative Findings on Child Care Facilities (PPT 14K)
Session 17: How can states improve their tracking of children's well-being? What indicators are available or needed for large-scale monitoring?
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Summary (PDF 66K)
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Southwick, Rod. The Massachusetts Experience (PPT 195K)
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Wilson, Sue. Keeping Children on the Path to School Success (PPT 114K)
Sessions 18-20
The final three sessions addressed the following question, What should the next generation of research look like from the perspective of
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Family needs, choices, and outcomes? -- Session 18
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Market structure, professional development, and provider outcomes? -- Session 19
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Children's experiences in care, their overall development, and their success in school? -- Session 20
Session 18
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Summary (PDF 83K)
Session 19
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Summary (PDF 104K)
Session 20
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Summary (PDF 80K)
Posters
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Adams, Gina. Child Care Providers and the Subsidy System (PPT 11K)
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Elicker, James. Child Care for Low Income Families (PDF 162K)
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Elicker, James. The Relation between Quality and Child Outcomes (PDF 89K)
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Grymes, Joanna. The Arkansas Early Childhood Professional Development System (PDF 44K)
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Knoche, Lisa. Child Care for Children with Disabilities in 4 Midwest States (PPT 157K)
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Knoche, Lisa. Child Care in 4 Midwest States-Handout (PDF 92K)
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Laughlin, Lynda. Race, Class, Neighborhood and Child Care Decisions (PPT 827K)
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Peisner and Yazejian. The Relation of Preschool Child Care Quality to Children's Longitudinal School Success -- Handout (PDF 144K)
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Press, Julie. Child Care, Work and Depression Among Low Income Mothers (PPT 24K)
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Press, Julie. Work-Family Conflict and Child Care (PPT 20K)
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Rigby, Elizabeth. Understanding State Early Care and Education Policy Choices (PPT 535K)
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Schexnayder, Deanna. Prospects For Devolution (PPT 613K)
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Schilder, Diane. Head Start Child Care Partnerships (PPT 57K)
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Todd, Christine, McGraw, Lori, and Robinson, Virginia. Informal Caregivers in Georgia (PPT 10K)
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Ward, Helen. Child Care and Children with Special Needs -- Insert (PDF 40K)
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Ward, Helen. Child Care and Children with Special Needs (PPT 51K)
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Warner, Mildred. Comparing Child Care Multipliers in the Regional Economy (PPT 2.5MB)
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Weber, Bobbie. Improving Child Care: Providing Comparative Information on Child Care Facilities to Parents and the Community (PPT 13K)
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Weber, Bobbie, and Grobe, Deana. Strengths and Weaknesses of Conducting a Child Care Market Rate Study Using CCR&R Data (PPT 274K)
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Weinraub, Marsha, and Shlay, Anne. Do Subsidies Affect the Child Care of Low-Income African American Families? (PPT 35K)
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Wilson, Sue. An Inventory and Analysis of State Databases on Early Childhood (PDF 400K)
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Wilson, Sue. Keeping Children on the Path to School Success (PDF 848K)
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Witte, Anne. Child Care Choices of Families Receiving Child Care Subsidies (PDF 448K)
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Witte, Anne. What Happens When Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet? (PDF 484K)
Additional files will be posted as they become available.