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This report helps the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) build the base of knowledge necessary to reliably identify and interpret racial and ethnic differences in relation to ACF’s human services programs. Better understanding these differences and being able to distinguish when...
The preliminary data in this report describe parent and staff perspectives on the family engagement activities and service provision in Head Start programs. This includes information on: 1) How parents describe the environment of Head Start programs; 2) What staff are involved in family...
This report includes key information on the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2014 (FACES 2014) study design and a set of data tables that present descriptive statistics on the demographic backgrounds and developmental outcomes of children enrolled in Head Start in fall 2014 who...
This report from Child Trends and the National Center for Children in Poverty includes a review of the prevalence of early childhood trauma and its effects. The report offers promising strategies for child care and preschool programs looking to help young children who have endured trauma, and...
This report offers a summary of research findings related to health, family support, learning, standards, assessment practices and accountability systems that are important to early childhood developmental outcomes.
This report describes preliminary work in support of an early childhood needs assessment for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children prenatal to age five. The report uses existing data to describe the population of AI/AN children and families and their...
This paper offers recommendations for child welfare professionals, caregivers, and systems to use research findings on the adolescent brain and the impact of trauma to work effectively with youth in or emerging from foster care in the four focus areas of the Jim Casey Initiative’s work:...
Where and when during childhood and adolescence do people acquire the foundations of financial capability? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) researched the childhood origins of financial capability and well-being to identify those roots and to find promising practices and...
This report reviews the status of early childhood education in Arkansas and the awarding of almost $60 million from the federal government's preschool development grant program to expand high-quality preschool programs in high-need communities. Information is provided on how the funding will be...
In this report, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) examines how to increase the public health approach to child development by looking at national, State and local strategies, policies and programs that have a high impact for improving health and well-being across a range of sectors, and how...