Projects
Improving the Odds for Young Children
Improving the Odds shines a spotlight on state variation in the policy commitment to low-income young children and families. The result is a unique, state-by-state picture of the population of young children and the policy choices that states make across a range of services.
Making Work Supports Work
Making “Work Supports” Work is a collaborative project in which NCCP works with state and national partners to help policymakers improve supports for low-wage workers and their families. The goal is to promote a work support system that enables full-time workers to make ends meet and ensures that earning more always improves a family's financial bottom line.
Pathways to Early School Success
Pathways identifies, synthesizes, and promotes ‘on the ground’ use of emerging knowledge that can reduce the achievement gap. Designed to help communities, educators, and state policymakers, the project is central to NCCP’s larger goal to promote strategies that improve the social, emotional, and physical health of America’s low-income children.
Project THRIVE
Project THRIVE is a public policy analysis and education initiative at NCCP to promote healthy child development and to provide policy support to the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) initiatives funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Research Connections
Research Connections is a unique, free, web-based resource that combines access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly research, policy briefs, government reports, data and instruments. Focused on early care and learning, it plays a core role in NCCP’s larger early childhood agenda, helping us to promote high quality research and the use of that research in policymaking.
Social Inclusion & Respect for Diversity
Promoting Social Inclusions and Respect for Diversity is a two-year action research study of the formation of regional coalitions of researchers, policymakers, practitioners, evaluators, advocates, and funders to promote social inclusion and respect for diversity (SI & RD) in early childhood education in the U.S.
Unclaimed Children Revisited
Unclaimed Children Revisited is a multi-pronged project that is generating new knowledge about policies across the 50 states that promote or inhibit the delivery of high-quality mental health services to children, youth, and families in need.