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The Role of Early Head Start Programs in Addressing the Child Care Needs of Low-Income Families with Infants and Toddlers: Influences on Child Care Use and Quality

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TITLE PAGE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I CHILD CARE AND EARLY HEAD START: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

A. THE CHILD CARE CONTEXT FOR EARLY HEAD START

B. EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM STANDARDS AND CHILD CARE OPTIONS

C. THE EARLY HEAD START NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EVALUATION PROJECT

D. THE EMBEDDED CHILD CARE STUDY

II PATTERNS OF CHILD CARE USE AND EARLY HEAD START’S IMPACTS ON FAMILIES’ CHILD CARE USE

A. MEASURING CHILD CARE USE IN THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE

B. PATTERNS OF CHILD CARE USE BY EARLY HEAD START FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

1. Proportion of All Early Head Start Families Who Used Child Care
2. Characteristics of Early Head Start Families Who Used Child Care
3. Types of Primary Child Care Arrangements Used
4. Intensity of Child Care Service Use
5. Number of Regular Child Care Arrangements Used
6. Early Head Start Families’ Satisfaction with Child Care Arrangements
7. Summary of Child Care Use Findings

C. IMPACTS OF EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM PARTICIPATION ON FAMILIES’ CHILD CARE USE

1. Approach to Analyzing Impacts on Child Care Use
2. Early Head Start Program Impacts on the Percentage of Families Using Child Care and on the Amount of Care Used

III. QUALITY OF CHILD CARE USED BY EARLY HEAD START FAMILIES AND PROGRAM IMPACTS ON THE QUALITY OF CHILD CARE FAMILIES USED

A. MEASURING CHILD CARE QUALITY IN THE EARLY HEAD START EVALUATION

1. Child Care Settings Included in this Study
2. Response Rates
3. Procedures and Instruments Used

B. QUALITY OF CHILD CARE USED BY EARLY HEAD START FAMILIES

1. Quality of Child Care Used (Global Measures)
2. Quality of Child-Caregiver Interactions (as Measured by the C-COS)
3. Quality Experienced by Early Head Start Children in Early Head Start and Community Centers

C. SUMMARY OF EARLY HEAD START QUALITY OF CHILD CARE

D. EARLY HEAD START PROGRAMS’ IMPACTS ON CHILD CARE QUALITY

1. Approach to the Analyses of Impacts on Child Care Quality
2. Early Head Start’s Impact on the Percentage of Families in Good- Quality Center Child Care—Global Measures
3. Early Head Start’s Impact on the Percentage of Families in Good-Quality Center Child Care—Child-Caregiver Interactions (C-COS Scores)
4. Summary of Program Impacts on Percentages of Children Receiving Good-Quality Center Child Care
5. Differences in the Average Quality of Care for Children Observed in Care
6. Summary of Program-Control Differences in Quality of Center Care Received

E. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHILD CARE QUALITY AND INTENSITY AND CHILD OUTCOMES AMONG EARLY HEAD START CHILDREN

IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A: SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES

APPENDIX B: PROCEDURES FOR TRAINING AND ESTABLISHING RELIABILITY ON THE CLASSROOM OBSERVATION QUALITY MEASURES

 

 

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