Publication Type: Report

A Demographic Profile of Long Island’s Low-Income Immigrant Community (Year 1 of 3)

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  • Project  Economic and Social Challenges of Immigrants in Long Island ; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date June 1, 2018

Immigrant communities play a significant role in the economy of Long Island. They have been broadly impacted by recent federal and state policy changes. This report is the first of three that describe the social and economic needs of low-income immigrants on Long Island, New York. This 3-year project producing 3 separate reports conducted between 2017-2020 was supported by a grant from the New York State Office […]

A Demographic Profile of Long Island’s Low-Income Immigrant Community

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date June 1, 2018

The Voices of Maine’s Early Care and Education Teachers: Children with Challenging Behavior in Classrooms and Home-based Child Care

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  • Project  Early Care and Education Suspension and Expulsion Prevention Policy; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2018

Learn about our Supporting Young Children’s Mental Health project. This report presents findings from a survey of Maine’s early care and education (ECE) teachers and providers about their experiences related to young children with challenging behavior. These experiences included young children displaying different types of challenging behavior, children leaving the program due to challenging behavior, […]

How Federal and State Food Stamps Programs Affect Recent Immigrant Families in the United States

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  • Project  Promoting Social Inclusion and Respect for Diversity in Early Childhood; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date January 1, 2018

Learn about our Social Inclusion & Respect for Diversity project. “Food insecurity” is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a lack of consistent access “to enough food for an active, healthy life.” This kind of insecurity can be measured either for entire households or for only children in affected households. According to the […]

How Studies of QRIS Measure Quality Improvement Activities: An Analysis of Measures of Training and Technical Assistance

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2017

Learn about our Research Connections project. A growing body of research documents the implementation, performance, and validity of Quality Rating Improvement Systems (QRIS), now operating in about 40 states. Despite differences in design, all QRIS have the common goal of improving the quality of ECE programs; each of these systems offers some form of professional […]

New York State Profile of Young Children in Deep Poverty

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  • Project  Early Childhood Two-Generation State Policy Profiles;  Two-Generation Policies for Young Children and Families in Deep Poverty; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2017

Learn about our Improving the Odds for Young Children project. Young children in families experiencing deep poverty – those with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line — are likely to experience severe early adversities that contribute to poor health and education outcomes. This brief offers information about young children, age birth to […]

Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education

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  • Project  Supporting Young Children's Mental Health; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2017

Learn about our Supporting Young Children’s Mental Health project. In almost every early care and education (ECE) program across the country, there are children who have experienced trauma or who will, during their early childhood, experience traumatic events. Trauma in early childhood takes many forms, including abuse or neglect, witnessing violence, and having prolonged separation […]

State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How they Impact Low-Income Households

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2017

Over seven million U.S. children live with at least one noncitizen parent — and 80 percent of these children are US-born citizens. Close to 5 million US-citizen children live with an unauthorized immigrant parent, potentially subject to deportation. Research has shown that the deportation of a parent has serious deleterious effects on families—emotional distress, behavioral […]

Strong at the Broken Places: The Resiliency of Low-Income Parents

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  • Post date April 1, 2017

Several organizations are actively promoting two-generation approaches, most notably The Aspen Institute, Foundation for Child Development, and Annie E. Casey Foundation. Social-emotional competence in children – the ability to manage emotions, express needs and feelings, deal with conflict, and get along with others – plays a critical role in their cognitive skill building, mental health, […]

Using Medicaid to Help Young Children and Parents Access Mental Health Services: Results of a 50-State Survey (Updated March 2017)

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  • Project  Medicaid Coverage for Key IECMH Policies: Results of a Series of 50-State Surveys; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2017

Learn about our Supporting Young Children’s Mental Health project. As states work to strengthen supports for young children’s mental health, often with the goal of reducing the incidence of costly conditions at later ages, they face the question of how to finance new or expanded services. This brief examines states’ use of Medicaid as a […]