November 15-17, 2011

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, identify and respond to critical issues, and link child care research with policy and practice.

The combined 2011 State and Territory Administrators Meeting (STAM) and Annual Meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium (CCPRC)—The Intersection of Research and Practice: Meeting Child Care Goals in Challenging Times—was held from November 15 to 17, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland. Materials for the STAM-CCPRC 2011 plenary sessions and workshops are available through the links below. All files are in PDF form.

Plenaries and Workshops

Annual Meeting Overview

• Opening and Welcome from Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Leadership

  • Summary 

• Plenary Session 1: Building Pathways and Partnerships To Support Children's Development

  • Summary 

  • Minnesota School Readiness Connections (SRC) Pilot Project

  • Community Connections: Home-Based Child Care and State-Funded Preschool

  • Illinois Action for Children Community Connections Preschool Program Evaluation Highlights

  • Child Care Assistance Program: School Readiness Connections Pilot Project Overview

  • Taking a QRIS to the Next Level

  • Building Pathways and Partnerships to Support Children's Development

• Workshop Session A1: Meeting Parents' Needs and Supporting Children's Development: Cross-Systems Initiatives

  • Summary

  • Linking Home-Based Child Care and State-Funded Preschool: The Community Connections Preschool Program (Illinois Action for Children)

  • What Do These Partnerships Look Like?

  • The Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project

• Workshop Session A2: Child Care Subsidy Dynamics: Recent Research Findings From Ongoing Studies on Subsidy Stability and Arrangement Continuity (Poster Symposium)

  • Summary

  • Stability of Subsidy Use in Oregon 

• Workshop Session A3: Quality Improvement Strategies and Innovations: What Do We Know From Research, and Where Are the Gaps?

  • Summary

  • Quality Improvement Strategies and Innovations: What Do We Know from Research and Where are the Gaps?

• Workshop Session A4: Assessing the Supply of ECE and Understanding the Workforce

  • Summary

  • National Survey of Early Care and Education ? Provider Sampling, Density and Availability

  • The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report

  • National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) Handout 

• Workshop Session A5: Emerging Findings From the Center for Early Care and Education (ECE) Research: Dual-Language Learners

  • Summary

  • Emerging Findings from Critical Reviews of Literature and Secondary Data Analysis

• Workshop Session B1: Research Findings at the Intersection of Early Care and Education and Child Welfare (Poster Symposium)

  • Summary

  • The Effects of Center-Based Care Accreditation on the Development of Children in the Child Welfare System

  • Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness

  • Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness Handout

  • Research Findings at the Intersection of Early Care & Education and Child Welfare

• Workshop Session B2: Tradeoff of Subsidy Access and Quality

  • Summary

  • Child Care and Development Fund: State Policy Decisions

• Workshop Session B3: Compensation in Quality Improvement Initiatives

  • Summary

  • Compensation and ECE Quality Improvement

  • Modeling ECE Cost: Tools, Resources, Opportunities

  • Child Care Compensation

• Workshop Session B4: Integrating Professional Development With Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)

  • Summary

  • Delaware Early Childhood Career Lattice

• Workshop Session B5: Measuring Quality: New Findings on Thresholds and Implications

  • Summary

  • Thresholds of Quality: What does it mean in the trenches?

  • Testing Thresholds of Quality on Child Outcomes Globally and in Subgroups

  • Factor Analyses of Quality Measures

• Plenary Session 2: Applying the Implementation Science Lens to Early Care and Education Research

  • Summary

  • Applying the Implementation Science Lens to Early Care and Education Research and Evaluation

• Workshop Session C1: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Special Populations: Research With Families at the Intersection of ECE, Child Welfare, and Early Intervention Services

  • Summary

  • Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Special Populations: A conversation about research with families at the intersection of Early Care and Education, Child Welfare, and Early Intervention/ Preschool Special Education

• Workshop Session C2: Parental Perception of Child Care Subsidies (Poster Symposium)

  • Summary

  • Child Care Subsidy Use in Low-Wealth, Rural Settings

  • Understanding the Relationship between the Context of Child Care Decision Making, Parental Perceptions of Subsidies, and Outcomes

  • The Massachusetts Child Care Study: Child Care Subsidies, Child Care Needs & Utilization,& Choice of Care Among Low-Income Working Families

  • Parental Perception of Child Care Subsidies in Oregon

• Workshop Session C3: Policy Implications of Systems and Data Integration Efforts

  • Summary 

  • Integrating Systems: Improving Access to Better Serve Families

  • ECDC 2010 State Analysis of Early Care and Education

  • 10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems

  • New Mexico's Young Children: Their Needs, Our Future

• Workshop Session C4: Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Through the Implementation Science Lens

  • Summary

  • QRIS Through an Implementation Science Lens

  • Illustrative Questions for Each State of Implementation, by QRIS Component

• Workshop Session C5: Providers, the Recession, and CCDF: Research Insights for Policy

  • Summary

  • Urban Institute Research on Child Care Providers and CCDF: Insights Relevant for the Recession

  • Factors Shaping Provider Willingness to Serve Families with Child Care Vouchers, and How Many

  • ECE Employment Through the Great Recession

  • Understanding Quality in Context: Child Care Centers, Communities, Markets, and Public Policies

• Plenary Session 3: Findings From the QRIS Assessment Project

  • Summary

  • Findings from the QRIS Assessment Project: Project Overview

  • Findings from the QRIS Assessment Project: In-Depth Study of Quality Measurement

  • QRS Assessment Plenary Discussion Handout

• Plenary Session 4: Preview of Cross-Cutting Child Care Research Design and Measurement Issues

  • Summary

• Workshop Session D1: Methodological Considerations for Research on Participants Receiving Integrated Service

  • Summary

  • Methodological Considerations for Studies Conducting Research with Participants Receiving Integrated or Linked Services: Evaluation of Project LAUNCH

  • Methodological Considerations for Studies Conducting Research with Participants Receiving Integrated or Linked Services: National Early Childhood Transition Research and Training Center

  • Early Care and Education Collaboration: Methodological Issues

• Workshop Session D2: Child Care Decisionmaking Among Immigrant Families (Poster Symposium)

  • Summary

  • Choice of Care among Low Income Working Families: A Study of Latino Families in the New South

  • Child Care Choices of Low-Income Working Families: Immigrants in Washington and Rhode Island

  • Child Care Choices of Low-Income Working Families: Immigrants in Washington and Rhode Island Handout

  • New Americans: The Child Care Choices of Parents of English Language Learners

  • New Americans: The Child Care Choices of Parents of English Language Learners Handout

  • Choice of Care Among Language Minority Families: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study ? Birth Cohort Presentation

  • Choice of Care Among Language Minority Families: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study ? Birth Cohort Poster

  • Choice of Care Among Immigrant Families: Symposium Synergies

  • Low-income Latina and African Immigrant Mothers' Experiences Selecting and Securing ECCE

  • Low-income Latina and African Immigrant Mothers' Experiences Selecting and Securing ECCE Handout

• Workshop Session D3: Parent Engagement With QRIS

  • Summary

  • Parents and QRIS: Cross-State Findings

• Workshop Session D4: Child Care Subsidies and Family Well-Being

  • Summary

  • Subsidized Care Arrangements and Pre-Kindergarten: An Examination of Combined Arrangements and Children's Readiness for School upon Kindergarten Entry

  • Child Care Subsidies and Child and Family Outcomes Panel

  • When Mothers take Child Care Subsidies and Go to Work: Are they Harming their Children? Evidence from Administrative Data

• Workshop Session D5: Methods for Examining the Associations Between Quality of Early Care and Education and Child Outcomes

  • Summary

  • Methods for Testing for Threshold in Associations between Child Care Quality and Child Outcomes

  • Identifying Thresholds of Quality in Early Child Care and Education: A Non-Parametric Approach

• Plenary Session 5: Indicators of ECE Quality for Multiple Purposes

  • Summary

  • Indicators of ECE Quality for Multiple Purposes

  • Getting the Most Out of Quality Data: QRIS Efforts to Meet Multiple Purposes

  • Successful Recipes for QRIS Data

• Workshop Session E1: Studying the Collaboration Process: Early Learning Challenge Grants

  • Summary

  • Studying the Collaboration Process: Early Learning Challenge Grants

  • What Are the Functions of a Comprehensive Early Childhood System?

  • Early Care and Education Collaboration Handout

• Workshop Session E2: Perspectives on Family-Provider Relationships and Family Engagement 

  • Summary

  • Ages & Stages Questionnaire Online: A Pilot Project to Support Quality Improvement and Child Care Provider/Family Communication

  • Defining and Measuring Engagement to Inform a Performance-Based Contract

  • The Family-Provider Relationship Quality (FPRQ) Project

  • Family-Provider Relationship Quality Conceptual Model

  • The Types of Relationships Parents and Center-Based Providers Form and How They Are Negotiated

• Workshop Session E3: QRIS Validation: A Focus on Program Standards

  • Summary

  • QRIS Validation: Findings from Indiana's Paths to QUALITY Evaluation Study

  • Validating Standards in Child Care QRIS: Multi-State Case Study

  • Validation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Care and Education and School-age Care

• Workshop Session E4: Measurement Issues Related to Research on Subsidies

  • Summary

  • Collecting Survey Data on Subsidy Receipt

  • Measurement Issues Related to Research on Subsidies: Common Challenges in the Study of Continuity of Subsidy Participation

  • Measurement Issues Related to Research on Subsidies

  • Can We Trust Parental Reports of Child Care Subsidy Receipt?

• Workshop Session E5: Analytic Approach to Studying the Implementation of ECE Programs and Systems

  • Summary

  • Analytic Approaches to Studying Implementation of Early Childhood Programs and Systems

• Plenary Session 6: What We Have Learned and Emerging Issues

  • Summary

• CCDF Policies Database Project: Discussion and Demonstration Session

  • The CCDF Policies Database: Comparing States' Child Care Subsidy Choices