As we enter 2025, we invite you to peruse our most popular products released in 2024. We hope you’ll take a moment to look back through these highly accessed resources from the past year and share them with colleagues. You can find these reports, briefs, tools, and videos along with the many others we published this year in OPRE’s publication library.
Thank you so much for engaging with OPRE and our work in 2024 and beyond. We look forward to continuing to build rigorous and relevant research and resources with partners in 2025 and sharing what we learn.
10. Applying Insights from Human Connection and Co-Regulation: Supporting Fathers in Human Services Programs
In January 2021, OPRE held a meeting with a multi-disciplinary group of experts to explore connection and co-regulation in the context of fatherhood and father engagement. This report describes the background that led to the meeting and summarizes and expands upon the themes that arose from the discussions.
9. Tools and Strategies for Examining the Relationship between Child Care Subsidy Policies and Trends in Child, Family, and Provider Outcomes
This report, building on case studies in Minnesota and Oregon, introduces a conceptual framework that states can use to explore the relationship between CCDF policy decisions, implementation, and outcomes within the context of their state and their early childhood system.
8. Video: Supporting Workers & Families in Low-Income Households During Economic Downturns
This video from the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies (NextGen) Project features the stories of how individuals working in low-wage jobs experienced and navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, in their own words.
7. Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce: Secondary Data Analysis Series
This series of briefs from the Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE) project shares findings about educators’ credential attainment, entry, earnings, tenure, and exits in the child care and early education (CCEE) field based on analyses of administrative data from three states.
6. Child Care and Early Education Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned and Future Considerations
This brief shares the challenges that child care and early education (CCEE) researchers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, changes made to their research projects, and the implications of these changes for CCEE program staff and families and children who use CCEE.
5. The Conversion of Enrollment Slots from Head Start to Early Head Start (HS2EHS) Case Studies
This report presents findings from case studies of six Head Start grant recipients that converted enrollment slots to Early Head Start in 2021.
4. Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce: Knowledge Review Series
This series of briefs from the Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce project shares findings from a knowledge review designed to increase understanding of factors that drive workforce turnover in child care and early education and current strategies to stabilize the workforce.
3. Aspects of Well-being for the Child Care and Early Education Workforce
This research highlight describes the various aspects of well-being for the child care and early education (CCEE) workforce that have been discussed in recent research and shares examples of interventions or initiatives that can promote well-being.
2. Family Voices on Accessing Child Care and Early Education
Most research on access to child care and early education (CCEE) has not accounted for what families search for, prefer, and need. In this new video, 4 parents describe their experiences finding CCEE. Their stories help bring the “Multi-Dimensional Framework of Access to Child Care and Early Education” to life.
1. Modifying the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Mindfulness Curriculum Implemented with Transition-Age Youth and Young Adults in Foster Care
The Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP) in Alameda County, California uses dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) with transition-age youth and young adults in foster care. This brief describes the process of modifying the mindfulness curriculum that is part of each