What’s New
May 2012:
Career Pathways as a Framework for Program Design and Evaluation: A Working Paper from The Innovative Strategies for Increasing Self-Sufficiency (ISIS) Project
2012 Report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
Increasing Employment Stability and Earnings for Low-Wage Workers: Lessons from the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project
NSCAW II Child Well-Being Spotlight: Children with Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Reports of Child Maltreatment are at Similar Risk for Poor Outcomes
NSCAW II Child Well-Being Spotlight: Children Placed Outside the Home and Children Who Remain In-Home after a Maltreatment Investigation Have Similar and Extensive Service Needs
National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, No. 17: Psychotropic Medication Use by Children in Child Welfare
What Strategies Work for the Hard-to-Employ? Final Results of the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project and Selected Sites from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
April 2012:
Identifying Profiles of Quality in Home-Based Child Care
What Can CCDF Learn from the Research on Children's Health and Safety in Child Care?
A Summary of Research on How CCDF Policies Affect Providers
How Has the TANF Caseload Changed over Time?
Facilitating Postsecondary Education and Training for TANF Recipients
HHMI Grantee Implementation Evaluation: Marketing, Recruitment and Retention Strategies
March 2012:
TANF Work Requirements and State Strategies to Fulfill Them
Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients
The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: Early Impacts on Low-Income Families
Enhanced Early Head Start with Employment Services: 42-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
Coaching as a Key Component in Teachers' Professional Development, Improving Classroom Practices in Head Start Settings
February 2012:
NSCAW II Baseline Report: Local Agency
Investigating Depression Severity in the Working toward Wellness Study
Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES
Data Tables for FACES 2009 Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES
More Than a Job: Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program
January 2012:
TANF and the Broader Safety Net
TANF Child-Only Cases
Client-Friendly Strategies: What Can CCDF Learn from Research on Other Systems?
Using TANF Funds to Support Subsidized Youth Employment: The 2010 Summer Youth Employment Initiative, Final Report
Alternative Employment Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients, Final Results from a Test of Transitional Jobs and Preemployment Services in Philadelphia
December 2011:
Working toward Wellness Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Thirty-Six Months After Random Assignment
Disconnected Families and TANF
Presentations & Papers from the September 21-22, 2011 Advisory Committee Meeting for Head Start Research and Evaluation
An Introduction to the Tribal Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) and Evaluation
Subsidizing Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Families: A Review of State Employment Programs Created Through the TANF Emergency Fund
NSCAW II Baseline Report: Children’s Services
November 2011:
Building Non-Profit Capacity and Community Partnerships: Findings from the Communities Empowering Youth (CEY) Evaluation, Final Report
Building Non-Profit Capacity and Community Partnerships: Findings from the Communities Empowering Youth (CEY) Evaluation, Technical Report
Understanding and Choosing Assessments and Developmental Screeners for Young Children Ages 3-5: Profiles of Selected Measures, Final Report
October 2011:
TANF Recipients with Barriers to Employment
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and Family-Sensitive Caregiving in Early Care and Education Arrangements: Promising Directions and Challenges
Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review of High Quality Practices and Associations with Family, Child, and Provider Outcomes
Family Engagement and Family-Sensitive Caregiving: Identifying Common Core Elements and Issues Related to Measurement
September 2011:
Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Approaches to Integrating Programs for Young Children in Two States
Defining and Measuring Quality: An In-Depth Study of Five Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
Measuring Quality Across Three Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Findings from Secondary Analyses
The Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Evaluation Toolkit
Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies, Follow-up Study of the Participants in Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade
The CCDF Policies Database Book of Tables: Key Cross-State Variations in CCDF Policies as of October 1, 2009
NSCAW II Baseline Report: Caseworker Characteristics, Child Welfare Services, and Experiences of Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care, Final Report
NSCAW II Baseline Report: Caregiver Health and Services, Final Report
Quality of Caregiver-Child Interaction for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT): A Review of the Literature
Welfare Rules Databook: State TANF Policies as of July 2010
August 2011:
NSCAW II Baseline Reports
Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis and Technical Expertise Project: Executive Summary Research Briefs
Early Care and Education Quality and Child Outcomes
Evaluating, Developing, and Enhancing Domain-Specific Measures of Child Care Quality
What We Know and Don't Know About Measuring Quality in Early Childhood and School-Age Care and Education Settings
Multiple Purposes for Measuring Quality in Early Childhood Settings: Implications for Collecting and Communicating Information on Quality
Issues for the Next Decade of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
July 2011:
Synthesis of Research and Resources to Support at-Risk Youth
Evaluation of the Independent Living - Employment Services Program Kern County, California: Final Report
Evaluation of the Massachusetts Adolescent Outreach Program for Youths in Intensive Foster Care: Final Report
FACES 2009 Study Design
June 2011:
Providing Earnings Supplements to Encourage and Sustain Employment: Lessons from Research and Practice
Baby FACES 2009: Learning As We Go: A First Snapshot of Early Head Start Programs, Staff, Families, and Children, Volume I: First Report
Baby FACES 2009: Learning As We Go: A First Snapshot of Early Head Start Programs, Staff, Families, and Children, Volume II: Technical Appendices
Catalog of Research: Programs for Low-Income Fathers
Best Practices for Conducting Program Observations as Part of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief
Effective Evaluation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Care and Education and School-Age Care, Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief
Evaluation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Childhood Programs and School-Age Care: Measuring Children's Development, Research-to-Policy, Research-to-Practice Brief
BSF's Effects on Couples Who Attended Group Relationship Skills Sessions: A Special Analysis of 15-Month Data
May 2011:
Presentations & Papers from the April 12-13, 2011 Advisory Committee Meeting for Head Start Research and Evaluation
Design for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Survey: Final Design Report
April 2011:
A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services: Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
March 2011:
Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis and Technical Expertise Project Research-to-Practice Briefs
ACF Annual Performance Plans and Reports for FY 2012
Early Head Start Children in Grade 5: Long-Term Followup of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project Study Sample, Final Report
Evaluation of Community Healthy Marriage Initiatives Reports
February 2011:
Understanding Parents' Childcare Decision-Making: A Foundation for Child Care Policy Making
Quality Features, Dosages and Thresholds and Child Outcomes: Study Design Reports
Employment Retention and Advancement Project Reports
Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies Reports
Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation Presentations and Papers
Head Start Children Go to Kindergarten
Data Tables for FACES 2006: Head Start Children Go to Kindergarten Report
A Second Year in Head Start: Characteristics and Outcomes of Children Who Entered the Program at Age Three
Data Tables for FACES 2006: A Second Year in Head Start Report
January 2011:
Issue Brief: Exploring the Role of Partners and Spouses in the Decisions of Social Service Clients
Exploratory Study of Decision-Making in Low-Income Couples: Technical Report
Conceptual Frameworks for Child Care Decision-Making, White Paper, October 2010
Baby FACES Program Director Interview, April 2009
Baby FACES Program Director Self-Administered Questionnaire, March 2009
December 2010:
PDFs
Baby FACES: Caregiver (Teacher)/Home Child Rating, Documentation - with Variable Names
Baby FACES: Caregiver (Teacher)/Home Visitor Interview, Documentation - with Variable Names
Baby FACES: Caregiver (Teacher)/Home Visitor Interview, Documentation - with Variable Names (Spanish)
Summary of Data Collection by Mode, All Measures
Baby FACES: Parent Interview, 2009 Data Collection
The Building Strong Families Project: Initial Implementation of a Couples- Focused Employment Program, October 2010
Working toward Wellness: Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Eighteen Months After Random Assignment, November 2010
Finding the Next Job: Reemployment Strategies in Retention and Advancement Programs for Current and Former Welfare Recipients
November 2010:
PDFs
Recidivism Effects of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Program Vary by Former Prisoners' Risk of Reoffending
Research Brief - Building Non-Profit Capacity: Findings from the Compassion Capital Fund Evaluation
Improving Capacity among Nonprofits—Impact Study of the Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program
Improving Capacity among Non-Profits— Impact Study of the Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program, Technical Appendix Report
Assessing Changes in Nonprofit Capacity—Outcome Study of the Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program
Assessing Changes in Nonprofit Capacity—Outcome Study of the Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program, Technical Appendix Report
Welfare Rules Databook: State TANF Policies as of July 2009
October 2010:
PDFs
Early Lessons from the Implementation of a Relationship and Marriage Skills Program for Low-Income Married Couples
A Year in Head Start: Children, Families and Program
A Year in Head Start Report: Data Tables for FACES 2006
August 2010:
PDFs
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project: Benefit-Cost Findings for Three Programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project
A Review of the Literature on Home-Based Child Care: Implications for Future Directions, Final
A Compilation of Initiatives to Support Home-Based Child Care
Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care: A Compendium of 23 Initiatives
Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care: Initiative Design and Evaluation Options
Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care, Final Brief
Efforts to Meet Children’s Physical Activity and Nutritional Needs: Findings from the I Am Moving, I Am Learning Implementation Evaluation: Final Report
July 2010:
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Working toward Wellness: Early Results from a Telephone Care Management Program for Medicaid Recipients with Depression
PDFs
Research Brief, Providing Culturally Relevant Services: Programs in the Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative Implementation Evaluation
The Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation, Second Edition
National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, No. 16: A Summary of NSCAW Findings
National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, No. 15: Kinship Caregivers in the Child Welfare System
Children Involved with Child Welfare:A Transition to Adolescence
June 2010:
HTML recently posted:
Innovative Strategies for Increasing Self-Sufficiency (ISIS) Project Stakeholder Views from Early Outreach
Beginning Head Start: Children, Families and Programs in Fall 2006
Results from the Substance Abuse Case Management Program in New York City
Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners: Implementation, Two-Year Impacts, and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
May 2010:
PDFs recently posted on OPRE:
Child Care and Early Education Policy and Research Analysis and Technical Expertise Project Reports
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project: How Effective Are Different Approaches Aiming to Increase Employment Retention and Advancement? Final Impacts for Twelve Models
Design Phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand Reports
The Building Strong Families Project: Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships:The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families Executive Summary
The Building Strong Families Project: Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships:The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families
The Building Strong Families Project: Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships:The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families Technical Report
The Building Strong Families Project: Implementation of Eight Programs to Strengthen Unmarried Parent Families
Compendium of Quality Rating Systems and Evaluations and State Profiles
April 2010:
PDFs recently posted on OPRE:
Transitional Jobs: Background, Program Models, and Evaluation Evidence
March 2010:
PDFs recently posted on OPRE:
Report to Congress on a Plan for an Indian Head Start Study
Supplementary Analyses of Race Differences in Child Maltreatment Rates in the NIS-4
FY 2011 Performance Plan and FY 2009 Performance Report (contained within the FY 2011 Congressional Justification)
FY 2011 Online Performance Appendix
February 2010:
PDFs recently posted on OPRE (HTML Coming):
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project: Results from the Los Angeles and Reach for Success Program
January 2010:
PDFs recently posted on OPRE (HTML Coming):
Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4): Report to Congress
Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4): Report to Congress, Executive Summary
Head Start Impact Study: Final Report, Executive Summary
Head Start Impact Study: Final Report
Head Start Impact Study: Technical Report
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