Publication Type: Report

Preconception Health and Health Care and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Opportunities for Collaboration

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  • Project  Project Thrive; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2012

Learn about our Project Thrive project. This is an excerpt from the full report. In recent years, the importance of women’s preconception health and health care (PCHHC) for improving birth outcomes, especially among high-risk populations, has been highlighted by numerous researchers, advocates, and policymakers. In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Select […]

What Can CCDF Learn from the Research on Children’s Health and Safety in Child Care?

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2012

Learn about our Research Connections project. What’s Inside… This report examines research on health and safety components that lead to better care and healthier outcomes for children. We discuss research on key CCDF health and safety categories such as prevention and control of infectious disease, safe buildings and physical premises, and health and safety training, […]

Protecting the Safety Net in Tough Times: Lessons from the States

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2012

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. This is an excerpt from the full report. The Great Recession and its lingering aftermath has damaged state budgets to an extent unseen for decades, severely challenging states’ capacity to support critical social safety net programs. Fiscal year 2012 will mark the fourth consecutive year that states […]

Paid Family Leave: Stengthening Families and Our Future

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2012

This is an excerpt from the full brief. Life for 21st-century children and families is defined by rapid economic, social, and technological change, with profound implications for human and workforce development. The demographics of the American workforce bear little resemblance to those of past decades. In most families today, all adults are in the workforce […]

Paid Family Leave: Strengthening Families and Our Future

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2012

This is an excerpt from the full brief. Life for 21st-century children and families is defined by rapid economic, social, and technological change, with profound implications for human and workforce development. The demographics of the American workforce bear little resemblance to those of past decades. In most families today, all adults are in the workforce […]

Comprehensive Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood: Promising Federal and State Initiatives

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  • Project  Project Thrive; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2012

Learn about our Project Thrive project. This is an excerpt from the full report. The prevalence of obese and overweight children in the United States has nearly tripled during the past 30 years. In 2010, approximately 17 percent of all children and adolescents (ages 2-19) were obese (BMI is in the 95th percentile or above). […]

Coaching and Quality Assistance in Quality Rating Improvement Systems: Approaches Used by TA Providers to Improve Quality in Early Care and Education Programs and Home-based Settings

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date January 1, 2012

This is an excerpt from the full report. Introduction Quality Rating Improvement Systems (QRISs) commonly offer on-site technical assistance (TA) and coaching to help early care and education settings achieve quality improvements and a higher QRIS rating. In surveys of administrators overseeing statewide QRISs, almost all states reported the use of on-site TA and coaching […]

The Costs of Cutting Health Care: An Analysis of Recent Changes to New Jersey FamilyCare

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2011

This is an excerpt from the full report. Across the country, states grapple with the reality of unflagging unemployment and weak revenues. Fiscal prudence competes with an unprecedented need for public services as poverty rates continue to rise. In 2010, 15.4 percent of children living in poverty were uninsured, yet Medicaid has taken primacy over […]

The Costs of Cutting Health Care: An Analysis of Recent Changes to New Jersey FamilyCare

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2011

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. This is an excerpt from the full report. Across the country, states grapple with the reality of unflagging unemployment and weak revenues. Fiscal prudence competes with an unprecedented need for public services as poverty rates continue to rise. In 2010, 15.4 percent of children living in poverty were […]

Rent Burden, Housing Subsidies and the Well-being of Children and Youth

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2011

This is an excerpt from the full report. What is rent burden? Rent burden is defined as spending more than 30 percent of household income on rent. In 2009, more than half of renter-occupied households with children (54 percent) experienced rent burden. Between 2002 and 2009, the proportion of households with children affected by rent […]