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The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes is a collaboration among researchers, federal agencies, foundations,…

Since its launch in 1996, Connecticut’s Jobs First program has attracted national attention because it includes...

A large fraction of the U.S. workforce earns wages that cannot lift a family above the poverty line, and…

Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep…

This brief uses new, nationally representative data from The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) —funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—to describe critical elements in the decision-making process of parents and other caregivers regarding the non-parental care of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 

Respondents (usually parents) in...

Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health) is a federal grant program administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Grants provide funding to communities for five years, pursuing dual goals of improving systems and services for young children and their families.   As of September, 2011, 24 grantees (in three separate cohorts) were funded, all of them representing areas with a high need for services...

This brief highlights advantages, disadvantages, and potential research uses of four publicly available datasets...

This brief highlights the lack of consistent findings regarding subsidy duration in existing studies, resulting from...

This is a presentation on Program Quality and Services Findings From the Head Start Impact Study and Family and...

This is a presentation on American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Research Center: Research and Training...