Resource Library

This brief highlights how six TANF programs around the country pursued organizational change and sought to promote and sustain a positive organizational culture.

This report describes the major research investments of OPRE’s Division of Family Strengthening through Fiscal Year 2021.

This brief uses data from Baby FACES 2018 to provide a snapshot of quality in partner classrooms—that is, classrooms in child care partner centers that included at least one child enrolled in EHS.

The Behavioral Interventions Scholars (BIS) grant program supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are applying a behavioral science lens to specific research questions relevant to social services programs and policies and other issues facing low-income and vulnerable families in the United States.

Methodology report for the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) describing the survey design and data collection approach for data users and other interested parties.

Explore OPRE’s work on understanding who is and is not being served by Head Start among families experiencing adversity; the range of recruitment, selection, enrollment, and retention (RSER) strategies that programs use with families experiencing adversity; the factors that shape the use of RSER strategies; and the effectiveness of specific strategies with these populations.

Explore a report on costs of evidence-based early childhood home visiting from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE)

Explore OPRE research on Earned Income Tax Credits for low-income workers without dependent children.

In this brief, we use data collected in spring 2018 from a nationally representative sample to describe Early Head Start teachers’ and home visitors’ characteristics, the program activities (or processes) they are part of, and how well their programs operate (or function).

The Behavioral Interventions Scholars (BIS) grant program supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are applying a behavioral science lens to specific research questions relevant to social services programs and policies and other issues facing low-income and vulnerable families in the United States. At the end of their grant, each Scholar produces a research brief or other product.