Projects
Early Childhood QRIS Quality Improvement Strategies
The Early Childhood QRIS Quality Improvement Strategies will collect, analyze, and disseminate information about quality improvement activities that are part of states’ Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS), also known in some states simply as Quality Rating Systems (QRS).
Improving the Odds for Adolescents
Improving the Odds for Adolescents is a two-year project to improve health outcomes for adolescents – with a special focus on disadvantaged youth – through the strengthening of state policies, including fiscal strategies.
Improving the Odds for Young Children
Improving the Odds for Young Children 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 to promote healthy child development and 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.
Strategies for Early Learning
Strategies for Early Learning promotes the dissemination of the growing knowledge base about the most effective ways to ensure that young children enter school with the necessary skills to be successful.
UCR: California Case Study
Unclaimed Children Revisited: California Case Study is a series of county-specific case studies, a statewide analysis, and a set of fiscal analyses of effective policy-linked strategies to improve children’s mental health in the state of California.
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.
Youth, Homelessness, and Education
The Youth, Homelessness, and Education project is a pilot project focusing on youth (ages 12 to 17) who have been homeless, run away, or both. The project uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine how youth experiences of having been homeless or having run away influence the likelihood of graduating from high school.