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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, HPOG 2.0 programs (which train participants for in-demand healthcare jobs) adapted their procedures to continue activities while protecting their staff, students, and partners.
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.
Learn about the quality measurement, reliability and validity, affordability and feasibility to use, and other strengths and limitations of existing home-based child care measures and indicators.
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation’s (OPRE’s) Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: Scope of Agency Authority reviews how state child agencies define the extent and range of their authority as it relates to human trafficking.
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation’s (OPRE’s) Screening for Human Trafficking in Child Welfare Settings: Tools in Use describes human trafficking screening tools currently being used by state child welfare agencies that participated in the Identifying and Addressing Human Trafficking in Child Welfare Agencies study.
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation’s (OPRE’s) Recommendations for Child Welfare System Support from Youth Currently and Formerly in Foster Care describes recommendations from youth currently and formerly in foster care who were at increased risk for human trafficking about the most important ways the child welfare system could support youth leaving foster care.
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation’s (OPRE’s) Identifying and Addressing Human Trafficking in Child Welfare Agencies Final Report describes how child welfare agencies select and implement human trafficking screening tools, train workers on their use, and connect youth identified as having experienced trafficking or at increased risk of trafficking to services.