In 2000, Bank Street College of Education, Associates Inc. and the ional Center for Children in Poverty of the Mailman School of Public Health began a 3-year joint study funded by the inistration of Children, Youth and Families Child Care Bureau.
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provides support to states for child care subsidies for eligible families. In addition, it requires states to use 4% of the funding to improve child care quality and to expand child care supply. The study is intended to provide information for policy makers about how to make more efficient and effective use of CCDF quality set-aside funding. Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) Investments in Child Care Quality: A Study of Selected State Initiatives, a two-volume report, describes 104 quality set-aside initiatives across the country and seeks to answer the following questions:
It presents examples of efforts that use a variety of strategies to serve infants and toddlers, pre-school children, and school-age children as well as regulated family child care providers, child care centers and license-exempt providers. The description of each initiative includes information about funding levels, recruitment strategies, implementation, and evaluation.
To learn more about the initiatives states have funded with CCDF, ck here to perform a search of the 104 initiatives profiled in the study.
To download a copy of the report, click on the appropriate link below.
The Toolkit for Evaluating Initiatives to Improve Child Care Quality is a guide for policy makers, administrators, and practitioners who want to assess the results of their efforts to improve child care quality. Part I: The Guide, provides information about different kinds of evaluation and evaluation designs as well as a step-by-step process for planning and conducting evaluations, with examples based on studies of specific child care quality improvement initiatives. Part I also illustrates how to use a theory of change model to identify initiative outcomes and evaluation questions. Part II: The Instruments includes 14 easy-to-use sample instruments that can be used to collect evaluation data for any child care initiative.
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