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Most Common Industries of Employment for New Child Care Workers in the Year Before Starting in Child Care in 2019 in Illinois

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Child Care and Early Education (CCEE) Annualized Wages for Early Childhood Education (ECE) Graduates

Figure 1. CCEE teacher average hourly wage, compared to the average hourly wages of groups of CCEE teachers with the lowest hourly wages

Figure 1. Percentage of 2019 centers by turnover rates

Source: Turnover in the Center-based Child Care and Early Education Workforce: Findings from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education

On avg., it took 5 attempts to reach anyone at a center. On avg., it took 7 total contacts to get the center to agree to participate. We needed to contact 9 to 10 centers to recruit 1 into the study

The Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-ICHQ) study found that reaching a decision maker at a center and obtaining a decision on study participation took significant time and effort.

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An evaluation of Year Up, a training program for urban young adults, found that average quarterly earnings increased by $1,895 (53%) in the 18 – 21 months after enrolling in the program.

Students in the VIDA treatment group earned 33.1 college credits compared with 27.5 credits for the control group, an increase of 5.6 credits, within 24 months of enrolling in the program. Learn more from this report on VIDA.

20 program models meet HHS criteria for evidence-based home visiting models. Many of the models have shown the ability to improve outcomes of interest to ACF such positive parenting, child development and school readiness, child health, and maternal health.