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Year three research report: New Brunswick early childhood centres

Description:
This report represents an overview of the three-year process evaluation of the integrated platform of services being demonstrated at the New Brunswick Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDCs). Chapter 1 provides a concise overview of the early childhood context internationally, nationally, and provincially; as well as a description of the research purpose, design and methodology. Chapter 2 examines key outcomes from Years 1 and 2 of the demonstration initiative, and presents findings related to the benefits of an integrated model of early childhood services; impacts on children, families, early childhood educators and partners; and challenges encountered at the community and provincial levels. Chapter 3 presents individual site profiles that can be extracted as independent documents for the use each demonstration site in reviewing practices to date, and in planning for sustainability in the years to come. Practices of integration as identified through the administration of the Indicators of Change instrument at each site are outlined in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 focuses on the findings resulting from a cross-case analysis of key informant interviews conducted at each site, as well as at provincial meetings of Early Intervention, Talk With Me/Parle-moi, Family Resource and VON Healthy Baby and Me. A cross case analysis of utilization and financial data is included in Chapter 6, while Chapter 7 presents key highlights of provincial policy changes in the context of the emerging restructuring of early childhood services announced in the June 2012 New Brunswick document, Putting Children First: Positioning Early Childhood for the Future, which outlines the elements and timelines related to the province's three-year action plan. The final chapter of the report is presented as an Executive Summary of research findings. (author abstract)
Resource Type:
Reports & Papers
Country:
Canada

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