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This highlight provides a framework to understand child care and early education workforce well-being and describes examples of research-based initiatives that can be implemented to promote well-being.

The tables in this report describe the children enrolled in the FACES 2021—2022 Study, their family backgrounds and home environments, as well as study methodology, sample, and analytic methods.

Learn research-based answers to key questions about families’ access to public pre-K programs.

The Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE) knowledge review series provides an overview of the existing literature and data on CCEE workforce dynamics and offers recommendations for future research and data collection.

The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure administration and scoring guide provides information to support users in administering and scoring the ExCELS measure.

Explore this new OPRE-funded Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure that was developed to capture three leadership elements in center-based early care and education settings, including who participates in leadership, what individuals bring to leadership, and what center staff do as leaders.

This snapshot uses longitudinal data from 2019, 2021, and 2022 in the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to examine the mental health and well-being of the center-based CCEE workforce from 2019, by race and ethnicity.

This brief, based on the Head Start REACH case studies, provides insights into how Head Start programs work with community partners to support recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance/ retention approaches with families experiencing adversities.

This brief, based on the Head Start REACH case studies, provides research and practice considerations for strengthening Head Start recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance/ retention approaches with families experiencing adversities.

This brief, based on the Head Start REACH case studies, provides insights into how Head Start programs develop selection criteria and implement selection approaches with families experiencing adversities.