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In this piece on nontraditional-hour care, we highlight descriptive reports using national data on both families with young children who need nontraditional-hour care, as well as the characteristics of providers who offer nontraditional-hour care.

This snapshot provides an updated look at the demographic characteristics (race and ethnicity, languages spoken, and nativity status) of the center-based CCEE workforce and their professional characteristics by each demographic group using the 2019 NSECE and compares those estimates with the 2012 findings to see if trends in professional characteristics changed with time.

Discover an overview of trauma and its impact on child care and early education (CCEE), actionable steps to ensure providers use trauma-informed approaches, and guidance for addressing the needs of young children, parents/caregivers, and CCEE providers.

This short-form product is intended to provide examples relevant to state child care administrators on how local, state, and federal CCEE datasets many be used, either singly or in combination, to examine and track progress toward improving equitable access to CCEE.

The INQUIRE Toolkit grows out of the growing awareness of the importance of collecting data related to early care and education.  The Quality Initiatives Research and Evaluation Consortium (INQUIRE) Data Work Group was convened to address a request from stakeholders for information on building an effective data infrastructure to support activities including monitoring, continuous program improvement, reporting, validation and evaluation in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and...

This resource provides guidance to data users interested in using the 2019 NSECE to examine questions related to ECE access using a multi-dimensional, family-centric definition of access.

This short-form product summarizes findings from a study on state reported barriers and solutions to implementing the interstate background check requirements of the CCDBG Act of 2014.

This highlight draws key findings from two reports focused on families’ search for child care and states’ efforts to provide parents with consumer education to help inform their child care search process: 1) Parents’ Reasons for Searching for Early Care and Education and Results of Search: An Analysis Using the Access Framework; and 2) Supporting Families’ Access to Child Care and Early Education: A Descriptive Profile of States’ Consumer Education Websites.

This short-form product is intended to introduce state child care administrators to the multi-dimensional definition of child care and early education (CCEE) access. The product is also designed to underscore the family-centric nature of the definition and describes why the multi-dimensional definition is more useful for examining access than traditional definitions. The product also includes an infographic, designed to stand alone and as a quick but comprehensive illustration of CCEE access.

The report highlights examples of state ECE consumer education websites that are easy for parents to navigate; offer information about costs and financial supports to make care more affordable; provide information about how care can support child development; and can help parents locate care that meets their needs (e.g. near home/their work, during non-traditional hours, etc.).