WASHINGTON STATE CCDBG RESEARCH PLANNING PROJECT

华盛顿州早期学习部(DEL)是指定的管理儿童保育和发展整体补助金(CCDBG)资金和规划的州牵头机构，将实施华盛顿州CCDBG研究规划项目。 该项目的主要目标是计划产生与政策相关、及时和有用的新知识，了解2014年《儿童发展与发展法案》和华盛顿2015年《早期启动法案》的实施如何影响到接受补贴家庭中儿童照料的连续性；2)影响接受补贴的儿童保育提供者的稳定性；以及3)对弱势儿童群体和提供者造成或防止不成比例的影响。弱势群体包括接受补贴的儿童/家庭和为农村地区补贴家庭提供服务的托儿服务提供者、非英语家庭以及来自有色人种社区的儿童/家庭。 华盛顿的研究将利用行政数据，将包含补贴家庭、儿童和提供者数据的数据集与包含提供者质量评级数据的数据集链接起来。该规划项目将有助于为第二阶段申请提供信息，以实施计划中的研究项目。 为期18个月的第一阶段项目的预期成果包括：1)制定研究和评估计划，审查华盛顿2015年《早期启动法案》的执行情况，特别是因为它与儿童连续性和提供者稳定性的预期结果有关，并检查该州弱势群体的结果；2)产生关于儿童连续性和提供者稳定性的有意义的行政措施，可用作拟议研究的结果衡量标准，并纳入机构分析，以检查随时间的趋势、地理变化以及已确定的弱势人口群体内部和之间的变化；3)提高华盛顿州早期学习部内部以及各州机构的研究能力，以便该州能够竞争第二阶段资金以实施研究计划；4)将规划拨款的过程和结果纳入部门提交给州长和立法机构的年度早期启动法案进度报告，为项目提供可见性，并为未来的政策决策提供机会。

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.