In 1992 the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) funded a 3-year project designed to evaluate the delivery of Head Start services in family child care home settings and to compare those services with the services provided in traditional center classroom settings. The family child care home services were intended for 4-year-old children in the year prior to kindergarten. Eligibility was limited to parents who were either working, in school, or in a job-training program. The primary purposes of the evaluation were to: - Determine whether the full range of Head Start services (child development, education, and health) could be successfully provided in family child care homes; - Assess the program implementation characteristics necessary to meet the Head Start Performance Standards in family child care homes; - Compare the overall quality of family child care homes with that of center classrooms; and - Determine whether the outcomes for children and parents in family child care homes were comparable to the outcomes for children and parents in center classrooms.