Author: Nancy Perez

Partnering with Faith Communities to Expand Early Care and Education Access for Children in Foster Care

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  • Post date December 1, 2025

The Arkansas Office of Early Childhood is collaborating with SRI, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to learn about the supply, quality, and stability of early care and education (ECE) for Arkansas children in foster care, as well as factors that promote or reduce access to […]

Missing Out on What Matters: Early Care and Education Quality and Stability Gaps for Children in Foster Care

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  • Post date September 1, 2025

The Arkansas Office of Early Childhood is collaborating with SRI International, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to learn about the supply, quality, and stability of early care and education (ECE) for children in foster care, as well as factors that promote or reduce access to […]

Balancing Priorities: Foster Parents’ Child Care Search and Selection Process

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  • Post date March 21, 2025

The Arkansas Office of Early Childhood is collaborating with SRI International, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to learn about the supply, quality, and stability of early care and education (ECE) for children in foster care, as well as the facilitators and barriers to children in […]

Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas

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  • Post date March 21, 2025

The Arkansas Office of Early Childhood is collaborating with SRI International, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to learn about the supply, quality, and stability of early care and education (ECE) for children in foster care, as well as factors that promote or reduce access to […]

Improving Participation of Children in Foster Care in Stable, High-Quality Early Care and Education: Administrative Data Findings (Conference poster)

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  • Post date June 21, 2024

This conference poster presents findings from an analysis of Arkansas’s administrative data. We compare the quality, stability, and accessibility of subsidized early care and education (ECE) for young children in foster care using Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) vouchers to ECE for all other Arkansas children using CCDF vouchers. We also examine the landscape […]

Improving Participation in High-Quality Early Care and Education for Young Arkansas Children: Perspectives of Resource Parents and Early Childhood Educators

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  • Post date December 1, 2023

High-quality early care and education (ECE) provides a developmentally supportive environment for children in foster care that can help address early adversities, but recent studies have shown low levels of ECE participation among these children (Klein et al., 2016; Lee, 2020). To address this important issue, the Arkansas Office of Early Childhood (OEC) is collaborating […]

Early Childhood Education Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Arkansas Educators

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  • Post date May 25, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the experiences of young children and their caregivers over the past year. SRI Education and the National Center on Children in Poverty partnered with the Arkansas Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education (DCCECE) to examine early care and education programs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This brief, which represents the second of two reports, shares […]