WASHINGTON STATE CCDBG RESEARCH PLANNING PROJECT

华盛顿州 CCDBG 研究规划项目

• 批准号: 100163
• 负责人: VICKIE YBARRA
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF EARLY LEARNING
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-29 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/100163
• 关键词: WASHINGTON; STATE; CCDBG; RESEARCH; PLANNING

The Washington State Department of Early Learning (DEL), the designated state lead agency for administration of Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds and programming, will conduct the Washington State CCDBG Research Planning Project. The main goal of the project is to plan to generate new policy-relevant, timely and useful knowledge regarding how implementation of the CCDBG Act of 2014 and Washington's 2015 Early Start Act have 1) impacted continuity of care for children in families receiving subsidy; 2) impacted stability for childcare providers who accept subsidy; and 3) contributed to or prevented disproportionate impacts on vulnerable groups of children and providers. Vulnerable groups include children/families receiving subsidy and childcare providers serving subsidy families in rural areas, those who are non-English speaking, and those from communities of color. The Washington study will make use of administrative data, linking across data sets containing data on subsidy families, children, and providers and those containing provider quality rating data. This planning project will help inform a Phase II application to implement the planned research project. Expected outcomes of the 18-month Phase I project include: 1) Develop a research and evaluation plan to examine implementation of Washington's 2015 Early Start Act specifically as it relates to the desired outcomes of child continuity and provider stability, and to examine outcomes among vulnerable groups in the state; 2) Generate meaningful administrative measures of child continuity and provider stability that may be used as outcome measures for the proposed research as well as incorporated into agency analytics to examine trends over time, geographic variation, and variation within and among identified vulnerable population groups; 3) Increase research capacity within the Washington State Department of Early Learning as well as across state agencies such that the state is able to compete for Phase II funding to implement the research plan; 4) Include the process and findings of the planning grant in the Department's annual Early Start Act progress report to the governor and legislature, providing visibility for the project and opportunity to inform future policy decisions.

华盛顿州早期教育部门（DEL）是指定的儿童保育和发展整体拨款（CCDBG）基金和项目管理的州领导机构，将负责华盛顿州CCDBG研究规划项目。