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This short-form product provides an overview of trauma and its impact on child care and early education (CCEE), details actionable steps for CCEE leaders to ensure providers are using a trauma-informed approaches, and provides guidance for addressing the needs of young children, parents/caregivers, and CCEE providers.

This video features parents describing the many factors they consider when looking for child care and early education.

What does “curriculum” mean when applied to working with infants and toddlers?

This brief discusses the meaning of the term when applied to early education and care programs serving families with infants and toddlers. The discussion focuses on how programs can incorporate and use the concepts of a curriculum in a way that is developmentally appropriate for infants and toddlers...

This report represents the final synthesis of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency project. Overall, the project’s findings demonstrated that applying behavioral insights to challenges facing human services programs can improve program efficiency, operations, and outcomes at a relatively low cost.

Administrative data have the potential to help us answer pressing social policy questions. Government stakeholders and researchers are exploring the promises of using administrative data for research purposes.

This brief summarizes an Innovative Methods Meeting that was organized by OPRE in the fall of 2015 that considered the potential benefits and pitfalls of using administrative data for research purposes...

This OPRE brief uses data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019) to explore Head Start programs’ interaction with other systems such as licensing, QRISs, as well as with non-Head Start sources of funding like state and local pre-K.

The American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2015 (AI/AN FACES 2015) is the first national descriptive study of children and families enrolled in Head Start programs operated by federally recognized tribes. These programs are known as Region XI. Region XI programs incorporate their unique history, community traditions, and beliefs into their operations and integrate language and culture into the delivery of services to children and families.

The grouping "Hispanic" often makes it challenging to observe important social experiences that relate strongly to the needs, service experiences, and outcomes of interest to ACF for various Hispanic subgroups. Existing federal surveys do not consistently collect data to sufficiently examine how Hispanic ethnicity interacts with other socio-cultural experiences or how it relates to specific outcomes. Because current measurement is inadequate to differentiate characteristics within...

This highlight summarizes research on subsidy stability, defines key terms, describes potential administrative and policy obstacles to subsidy use, and shares resources for CCEE leaders interested in improving their subsidy programs.

This chartbook uses data from the 2012 NSECE and 2019 NSECE to describe the center-based ECE workforce that served children five and under not yet in kindergarten