Midwest Child Care Research Consortium
Convened in 1997, this is the first child care research partnership to encompass an entire Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) region. It is a multi-state project being conducted in collaboration with researchers in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas, HHS Region 7. Research partners are from four state universities and the Gallup Organization. Additionally, each state team includes a member of the Early Head Start Research Consortium. The purposes of the research project are to:
- Establish a baseline of quality in child care for children, infants through pre-school age, across the four states.
- Establish a set of indicators that can be used over time as quality indicators for child care within the four states, eventually to be used by the states to assess quality on a regular basis.
- Determine quality of child care across many groups, such as families who do or do not receive child care subsidies or families living in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas.
- Determine the characteristics of the child care labor force across the four states.
- Determine if quality and work force characteristics change over the three years of the study.
- Determine how child care and child care subsidies support working families in their efforts to earn a living and balance work and parenting.
- Link findings on quality to other child and family data available through the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project study of child and family outcomes, the Early Head Start welfare reform study and other related studies in states.
For more information please contact: Jackie Scott, (573) 884-3564, ScottJac@missouri.edu
Midwest Child Care Research Consortium
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