A two-generational child-focused program enhanced with employment services: Eighteen-month impacts from the Kansas and Missouri sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project

Description:

Interim findings on the impact of a program model that incorporates parental employment and educational services into Early Head Start on service receipt, child care and early education experiences, employment, earnings, household income, parenting practices, parental psychological well-being, and child outcomes, based on data collected from 610 families randomly assigned to treatment or control groups at two pilot sites in Kansas and Missouri

Resource Type:

Reports & Papers

Author(s):

United States. Administration for Children and Families; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Publisher(s):

United States. Administration for Children and Families; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Funder(s):

United States. Department of Health and Human Services; United States. Department of Labor

Preparer(s):

Hsueh JoAnn; Jacobs Erin; Farrell Mary

Country:

United States

State(s):

Kansas; Missouri

Date Issued:

March, 2011

Source:

Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families. Retrieved March 26, 2012, from http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/welfare_employ/enhanced_hardto/reports/two_generational.pdf

Note:

The project officers are Girley Wright, Kristen Joyce, and Amy Madigan. The contractor is MDRC, and its partners are the Lewin Group and MEF Associates

Topics:

6. Programs, Interventions & Curricula > 6.1. Programs > 6.1.3. Early Head Start/Head Start

2. Parents & Families

1. Children & Child Development > 1.2. Child Development & School Readiness

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