October 23-25, 2012
The Child Care Policy Research Consortium is a national alliance of research projects sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Consortium's purpose is to help ACF increase the national capacity for sound child care research, explore the latest in research findings, questions and methods, engage in problemsolving around challenging issues and questions, and identify future research needs.
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium (CCPRC) was held from October 23 to 25, 2012, in Bethesda, Maryland. Materials for the CCPRC 2012 plenary sessions and workshops and the methodology presession are available through the links below. All files are in PDF form.
Plenaries and Workshops
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Plenary 1: Opening and Welcome from ACF Leadership/Policy Context and Priorities
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Plenary 2: Overview of Conceptual Issues, Policy Levers and Administrative Practices to Promote the Use of High Quality Programs
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Workshop Session A1: Child Care Subsidies, Access and Choice: Emerging Insights and Unanswered Questions
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Workshop Session A2: Learning Together about the Provider Perspective on Child Care Subsidies
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Workshop Session A3: Strengthening the Workforce through Professional Development and Quality Improvement Systems
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Workshop Session A4: Building a Research Agenda on Effective Monitoring and Quality Assurance in Early Childhood Systems
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Plenary 3: Post-Data Collection Updates from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE)
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Plenary 4: Building the Conceptual Framework for Quality Improvement Initiatives: Child Outcomes Supported by System Outcomes
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Workshop Session B1: Supporting Successful Participation of Home-Based Providers within QRIS
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Workshop Session B2: Subsidies and Continuity: Fostering Consistency through Policies and Practice
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Workshop Session B3: Methodological Lessons from Implementation of the National Survey of Early Care and Education
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Workshop Session B4: Challenges and Options for Studying Child Outcomes in the Context of Quality Improvement Initiatives/QRIS
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Challenges and Options for Studying Child Outcomes in the Context of QRIS
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Child Care Quality and Child Outcomes in Indiana's Child Care Quality Rating System
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Issues in Studying Child Outcomes in Quality Improvement Initiatives
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Key Considerations for Examining Child Outcomes within Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
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Plenary 5: Sharing of Cross-Cutting Insights across Sessions and Topics
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Plenary 6: QRIS Participation and Movement Patterns (State Examples) and Innovative Methodologies for Tracking Movement in QRIS
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Workshop Session C1: Linking and Using Data to Support Quality Improvement Initiatives/QRIS Policy Decisions
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Workshop Session C2: Child Care in the Lives of Low-Income Families: Findings from the Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants
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Workshop Session C3: Using the CCDF Policies Database in Child Care Research
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Plenary 7: A Framework for Future Child Care Subsidy Research
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Closing Plenary: Highlights Across Themes and Reflections for ACF Leadership
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Methodology Presession Workshop