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This compilation of Grantee Evaluation Plan Profiles introduces and describes the evaluation studies developed by the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (Tribal Home Visiting Program) grantees. Each Tribal Home Visiting Program grantee was required to develop an evaluation of its program that...

People served by public assistance programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) often have difficulty finding jobs in the competitive labor market. This report describes the ways in which eight TANF...

The family services staff measure short form (English version) is for Head Start/Early Head Start family services staff (FSS), referred to as Family Service Workers (FSWs) in the measure. This English version of the short form asks respondents questions about how they work with all parents of children in Head Start/Early Head Start programs.  It includes 39 items (including 11 demographic items) and takes about 7 minutes to complete, on average.

The family services...

This logic model was developed as part of the Descriptive Study of the ELMC Initiative. In September 2010, the Office of Head Start (OHS), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF), awarded 17-month Early Learning Mentor Coach (ELMC) grants to 131 Head Start (HS) grantees. Contractors conducted a descriptive study of the ELMC initiative, detailing the coaching approaches HS grantees used in their programs. A key task of the ELMC project was to develop a conceptual model of coaching, both to provide a framework for the study and to help identify factors that grantee administrators should consider when designing and implementing a coaching initiative. The team chose a logic model framework for portraying coaching because it allowed them to characterize the entire coaching initiative—not only the structure and processes of various coaching approaches, but also the assumptions and resources, the intermediate outputs and potential outcomes, and the contextual factors that may influence the implementation and success of a coaching initiative. When establishing an early care and education coaching approach, program administrators will need to make decisions on multiple important dimensions. This brief presents key dimensions shaping coaching approaches, along with a graphic representation of the program logic model for coaching in early care and education settings.

In 2013, OPRE awarded cooperative agreements to six Child Care Research Partnerships:

Stars Plus: Promoting Quality Improvement for Family Child Care Providers in QRIS using a Community of Practice Model
Principal Investigator: Rena Hallam, University of Delaware
This partnership will document the experiences of family child care providers (FCCP) in two different Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in Delaware and Kentucky, evaluating...

We designed the Baby FACES sample to be representative of the population of Early Head Start programs at the…

The congressionally mandated Head Start Impact Study is being conducted across 84 nationally representative…

The congressionally mandated Head Start Impact Study is being conducted across 84 nationally representative…

This document is one of two products created under the auspices of the Evaluation Data Coordination Project…