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Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are initiatives implemented in states to promote improvement in the quality of early care and education (ECE) programs. Although systems vary in their specific features, QRIS typically include a process for measuring and rating ECE program quality, sharing ratings with parents and the public...

This research brief summarizes the measures used in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems validation studies...

This white paper addresses the 2018 revision of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Federal statistical agencies use the SOC to classify workers and jobs into occupational categories. ACF’s proposals in this paper include changes to the titles, definitions, and placement of the occupations involving the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce....

Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need many supports to navigate the challenges they face. Over the past three decades, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of those supports. In 1999, the Foster Care Independence Act amended Title IV-E of the Social Security Act to create the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (the Chafee Program). This amendment doubled the maximum amount of funds potentially available to states for...

Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need many supports to navigate the challenges they face. Over the past three decades, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of those supports. In 1999, the Foster Care Independence Act amended Title IV-E of the Social Security Act to create the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (the Chafee Program). This amendment doubled the maximum amount of funds potentially available to states for...

The goal of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project was to learn how tools from behavioral science could be used to deliver human services more efficiently and effectively to low-income children, adults, and families. BIAS conducted 15 randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions across eight sites....

Executive Summary for the report of the Third Grade Follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study, a nationally...

This Technical Report of the Head Start Impact Study is the result of several years of design, data collection,…

CCDBG Implementation Research and Evaluation Planning Grants FY2016 - Phase I/Cohort I.

These briefs explain the criteria that the National Agricultural Workers Survey uses to identify families who are eligible for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) and provide a general overview of the contents within the forthcoming Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement Report.

MSHS-eligible families primarily work in agricultural production and harvesting, have a child younger than six years old, and earn less than 100% of the federal poverty level. In addition to providing...