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This brief reports the results of a survey on states efforts to maximize the impact current policies to provide effective child development and prevention services to young children, especially those at risk of social and emotional delays, and makes recommendations for how to better support children at risk for social and emotional delays going forward.

Other Publications

• State-based Home Visiting
  Strengthening Programs Through State Leadership
  Report, March 2009
• Guide to Datasets for Research and Policymaking in Child Care and Early Education
  Bibliography, January 2009
• The Challenge of Child Care
  More Help Needed for Houston's Families
  Fact Sheet, November 2008
• The Challenge of Child Care
  More Help Needed for San Antonio's Families
  Fact Sheet, September 2008
• Present, Engaged, and Accounted For
  The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades
  Report, September 2008
• Demographics of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care in the United States
  Brief, August 2008
• How Maternal, Family and Cumulative Risk Affect Absenteeism in Early Schooling
  Facts for Policymakers
  Fact Sheet, February 2008
• The Influence of Maternal & Family Risk on Chronic Absenteeism in Early Schooling
  Report, January 2008
• Child Care in Colorado
  Making Care More Affordable for Working Families
  Report, November 2007
• A National Portrait of Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades
  Brief, October 2007
• The Quality of School-Age Child Care in After-School Settings
  Brief, June 2007
• State Early Childhood Policies
  Executive Summary
  Brief, June 2007
• State Early Childhood Policies
  Report, June 2007
• Measuring Quality in Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care
  Conceptual and Practical Issues
  Brief, April 2007
• Family Child Care in the United States
  Brief, April 2007
• Assessing Initiatives for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care
  Brief, March 2007
• Promoting Effective Early Learning
  What Every Policymaker and Educator Should Know
  Brief, January 2007
• School-Age Child Care Arrangements
  Brief, October 2006
• Developing Fiscal Analyses and Children’s Budgets to Support ECCS and Children
  Short Take No. 3
  Brief, September 2006
• Effective Preschool Curricula and Teaching Strategies
  Report, September 2006
• Toward a National Strategy to Improve Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care
  Brief, September 2006
• Parent Employment and the Use of Child Care Subsidies
  Brief, June 2006
• Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems that Spend Smarter
  Maximizing Resources to Serve Vulnerable Children
  Report, February 2006
• Predictors of Child Care Subsidy Use
  Brief, January 2006
• Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness in Young Children and Families
  A Community Guide
  Report, November 2005
• Infant and Toddler Child Care Arrangements
  Brief, August 2005
• Infant and Toddler Child Care Quality
  Brief, August 2005
• Impact of Training and Education for Caregivers of Infants and Toddlers
  Brief, August 2005
• Promoting Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Care and Education Settings
  Brief, April 2004
• Changing Children’s Trajectories of Development
  Brief, December 2003
• Low Income and the Development of America’s Kindergartners
  Brief, November 2003
• Low Income and Hardship Among America’s Kindergartners
  Brief, September 2003
• Continuity and Stability
  Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use in Oregon
  Report, August 2002
• The Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use
  A Collaborative Study of Five States
  Report, August 2002
• Ready to Enter
  What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and Four-Year-Old Children
  Report, July 2002
• The Role of Community Development Corporations in Promoting the Well-Being of Young Children
  Brief, February 2002
• Kith and Kin
  Informal Child Care
  Brief, May 2001
• Map and Track 2000
  State Initiatives for Young Children and Families
  Report, December 2000
• National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families
  State and Community Substudy Interim Report
  Report, November 2000
• Using Mental Health Strategies to Move the Early Childhood Agenda and Promote School Readiness
  Report, September 2000
• Scant Increases After Welfare Reform
  Regulated Child Care Supply in Illinois and Maryland, 1996-1998
  Report, June 2000
• Better Strategies for Babies
  Strengthening the Caregivers and Families of Infants and Toddlers
  Brief, February 2000