April 24-26, 2006
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 Child Care Policy Research Consortium Annual Meeting was held on April 24-26, 2006, in Silver Spring, MD. Materials from the conference, listed below, include a summary of each session along with powerpoint presentations and relevant handouts. For a summary of the learning objectives of this year's meeting, see the Overview (PDF 144K).
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Most files are available in PDF format, and can be read using Acrobat Reader, a free product available from Adobe, Inc.
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To print large Powerpoint files, click on "print" and then select "scale to fit."
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Files are labelled as follows:
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PPT or XLS - Compressed Powerpoint or Excel files
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PDF - Adobe PDF files
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JPG - Image files in JPEG format
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Contents
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Overview (PDF 144K)
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Plenaries and Breakout Sessions
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Opening Session (Plenary)
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Summary (PDF 69K)
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Challenges of Conducting and Using Policy-Relevant Research (Plenary)
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Summary (PDF 76K)
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Pennsylvania STARS (PPT 1.3MB)
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Defining and Measuring Quality (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 181K)
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Four Perspectives on Quality (PDF 62K)
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Defining and Measuring Quality (PPT 27K)
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Children's Perceptions of their Child Care Experiences (PPT 60K)
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Defining and Measuring Subsidies (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 145K)
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Defining and Measuring Subsidies (PPT 10K)
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Defining and Measuring Early Childhood Professional Development: State and Systems Perspectives (Breakout)
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Defining and Measuring Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Child Care Costs (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 136K)
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Defining and Measuring Self Sufficiency: The role of Child Care Costs (PPT 90K)
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Changing Demographics and Research with Diverse Children and Families (Plenary)
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Employers and the Low-Wage Work Force (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 134K)
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Employers & the Low-Wage Workforce (PPT 134K)
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State Child Care Subsidy Rate Setting Policies (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 127K)
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Factors Associated with Obtaining Child Care Subsidies (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 220K)
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Key Policies That Affect Access to Child Care Subsidies (PPT 36K)
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Factors Associated with Obtaining Child Care Subsidies: Census and Administrative Data (PPT 59K)
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Predictors of Child Care Subsidy Use (PPT 10K)
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Predictors of Child Care Subsidy Use (PDF 696K)
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Predictors of Child Care Subsidy Use - Table of Methods and Findings (PDF 261K)
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Issues and Challenges: Measuring Quality in Quality Rating Systems (Breakout)
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Supporting School Readiness through High Quality Care (Plenary)
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Summary (PDF 79K)
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Supporting School Readiness through High-Quality Care (PPT 9.7MB)
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Understanding Child Care in the Regional Economy (Plenary)
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Research on Quality and School Readiness (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 147K)
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Research on Quality and School Readiness (PPT 3.1MB)
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Kentucky Kids Now, Short Version (PDF 314K)
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Kentucky Kids Now (PDF 583K)
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Louisiana Program for 4-year-olds (PPT 70K)
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North Carolina Draft Indicator Data (PPT 57K)
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North Carolina ECCS Program (PPT 54K)
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California DRDP Infant and Toddler Instruments (PDF 1.1MB)
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California DRDP Preschool Instruments (PDF 1.2MB)
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California DRDP School-age Instruments (PDF 1.1MB)
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Supporting Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 146K)
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Supporting Family, Friend and Neighbor Care (PPT 128K)
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Overview of Policy and Research Context for FFN Projects (PDF 138K)
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Web of Child Supports: Child Care Subsidies and the Use of Other Work Supports (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 170K)
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Coordination among CCDF, Head Start, and Pre-Kindergarten Programs (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 115K)
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Coordination among CCDF, Head Start, and Pre-Kindergarten Programs (PPT 661K)
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Interagency Update of Findings from Major Studies (Plenary)
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CCDF Subsidies and Parent Employment Patterns (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 79K)
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Impact of Professional Development Interventions (Breakout)
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Child Care Providers at the Intersection of Subsidy Policy, Quality, and Families' Needs (Breakout)
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Summary (PDF 127K)
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Massachusetts School Readiness and Early Education Study (PPT 126K)
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Welfare, Work and Child Care Among Single-Parent and Unmarried-Couple Families (Breakout)
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Discussion with the Associate Commissioner (Plenary)
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Summary (PDF 71K)
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