October 21-22, 2010

The Child Care Policy Research Consortium is a national alliance of research projects sponsored by the Child Care Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Consortium's purpose is to help the Child Care Bureau increase the national capacity for sound child care research, identify and respond to critical issues, and link child care research with policy and practice.

The 2010 Annual CCPRC Meeting (CCPRC 2010) was held on Thursday, October 21st and Friday October 22nd at the Starwood St. Regis in Washington, DC. Materials from the conference, including summaries of sessions, PowerPoint presentations, posters and handouts are now available

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Plenaries and Workshops

Annual Meeting Overview

1. QRIS and Quality Initiatives: New Research and Resources (Pre-meeting Session)

   • Presentation (PDF)

2. Subsidy Measurement Issues: Measures of Duration, Dosage and Stability (Pre-meeting Session)

   • Presentation (PDF)

3. Introduction to ACF Leadership and Keynote by Joan Lombardi (Opening Plenary)

   • Summary (PDF)

4. Child Care Subsidy Policy Research: Where Are We, and Where Do We Need to Go? (Plenary Session 2)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Child Care Subsidy Policy Research: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go? Part 1 (PDF)

   • Child Care Subsidy Policy Research: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go? Part 2 (PDF)

   • The Impact of Child Care Subsidy Utilization on Parental Employment and Family Well-Being: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go From Here? (PDF)

5. The Role of Data System Integration in Policy, Practice, and Research (Workshop A1)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Data Sharing among Massachusetts Agencies serving children and youth aged 0 to 20 (PDF)

   • Key Resources (PDF)

6. New Research on QRIS: Implications for Policy and System Improvement (Workshop A2)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Cross-System Evaluation of QRS: Research Questions and Approaches in the QRS Assessment (PDF)

   • Reflections On QRIS Evaluation - Quality for Maine (PDF)

7. The Interface of Child Care Subsidy Policies and Practices and Child Care Markets (Workshop A3)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Identifying Thin Child Care Markets (PDF)

   • The Influence of Child Care Subsidies on Child Care Market Prices (PDF)

   • The Role of Local Child Care Policies in Child Care Facility Turnover (PDF)

   • Voucher Policy/Practice and Child Care Providers: Implications for Their Willingness to Serve, Financial Stability, and Quality of Care (PDF)

8. Models of Effective Professional Development and Quality Improvement: Coaching, Consultation, and Mentoring (Workshop A4)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies (PDF) 

   • Examining Thresholds of Child Care Quality in Two Multi-Site Data Sets: Preliminary Analyses Using Generalized Additive Model (GAM) and Confirmatory Factor Analyses of Quality Measures (PDF) 

9. Poster Symposium: Lessons Learned About Child Care Decision-Making from Child Care Policy Grantees (Workshop A5)

   • Summary (PDF)

   • Parental Child Care Decision-Making (PDF)

10. Progress toward Supporting High-Quality Care and Education: Goals, Strategies, and Continuous Improvement (Plenary Session 3)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Child Care Dosage, Threshold, and Features: State Administrator Policy Perspective (PDF)

    • Progress Toward Supporting High Quality Early Care and Education: Goals, Strategies, and Continuous Improvement (PDF)

11. Methodological Issues in Studies with Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Families (Workshop B1)

    • Summary (PDF)

12. Integration of QRIS and State Professional Development Systems (Workshop B2)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Integration of QRIS and State Professional Development Systems: Part 1 (PDF)

    • Integration of QRIS and State Professional Development Systems: Part 2 (PDF)

    • Integration of QRIS and State Professional Development Systems: Part 3 (PDF)

    • Provocations on Integration of QRIS and State Professional Development Systems (PDF)

13. Supporting High Quality Family-Provider Relationships through QRIS (Workshop B3)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Parent Engagement through Strengthening Families: A pilot approach with child care centers in Maine (PDF)

    • Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and Family-Sensitive Caregiving in Early Care and Education Arrangements: Promising Directions and Challenges (PDF)

14. Poster Symposium: Child Care Subsidies and Child/Family Well-Being (Workshop B4)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Poster Symposium: Child Care Subsidies and Family Well-Being (PDF)

15. Successful Family-Provider Relationships: Key Constructs, Related Outcomes,
    and Policy Implications (Plenary 4)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Successful Family-Provider Relationships: Key Constructs, Related Outcomes, and Policy Implications (PDF)

16. Early Childhood Collaborations: Definitions, Measurement, and Next Steps (Plenary 5)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Collaboration in Early Care and Education:Establishing a Framework for a Research Agenda: Logic Model (PDF)

    • Collaborations in Early Care and Education: Establishing a Framework for a Research Agenda (PDF)

    • Collaborations Annotated Bibliography (PDF)

17. Quality Indicators: Evaluation, Research, and Performance Measures (Workshop C1)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Challenges in Collecting Data on Quality (PDF)

    • Framework for a Data System to Assess State Efforts in Quality Improvement Logic Model and Clusters of Potential Indicators (PDF)

    • Quality Indicators (PDF)

18. Child Care Instability: Definitions, Context, and Policy Implications (Workshop C2)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • Child Care Instability and Subsidies (PDF)

    • Child Care Stability and Child Development (PDF)

    • Child Care Instability: Definitions, Context and Policy Implications (PDF)

    • Instability in Parental Employment: The relationship with child care instability (PDF)

19. Collaboration Measures: Existing Measures and Opportunities for Future Development (Workshop C3)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • How do we define collaboration? (PDF) 

    • Collaboration in Early Care and Education: Establishing a Framework for a Research Agenda Measuring Collaboration: What the Public Management Literature Contributes (PDF)

20. Models of Effective Professional Development and Quality Improvement: Options for Targeting Services for Individuals and Organizations (Workshop C4)

    • Summary (PDF)

21. Poster Symposium: Research Findings and Implications for the Collaboration Logic Model (Workshop C5)

    • Summary (PDF)

22. Implications of Behavioral Economics Research for CCDF Research and Policy (Plenary 6)

    • Summary (PDF)

    • What Behavioral Economics Can Contribute to Child Care Policy, Practice and Research (PDF) 

    • Implications of Behavioral Economics Research for CCDF Research and Policy: Parent Decision Making (PDF) 

    • Behavioral Economics: Implications for Child Care Research Concerning Providers (PDF)

23. Assessing What We Have Learned and Using Research to Shape New Developments in CCDF (Closing Plenary)

    • Summary (PDF)