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CDSS_PACE Child Care Planning Project
General Information
View a brief abstract of this project.
| Evaluator(s) |
Policy Analysis for California Education (UC Berkeley) |
| Investigator(s) |
Diane Hirshberg
(University of California at Berkeley)
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| Domain |
Income Security/TANF Child/Family |
| Status | Operational with Findings |
| Duration | Mar 1999 - Apr 2003 |
| Type |
Research and/or Program Evaluation |
| Program/Policy Description | This project looks at the child care choices of low-income parents and CalWORKS participants as well as the constraints on their choices. It also continues to fill in the gaps in data on the supply and demand for child care, and is attempting to develop better methods for understanding the changing need for child care. Goals: 1. To measure child-care services currently available in California and provide updated supply-and-demand maps for all counties. 2. To better understand parents' use of child-care subsidies and their experiences interacting with subsidy programs. 3. To analyze the child-care choices that parents make, looking at variables such as family language, ethnicity, geography, licensed versus license-exempt providers, and participation in CalWORKS versus the APP subsidy program. 4. To develop several ways of understanding the concept of unmet need for child care. The project has three main components: 1. Child-care supply 2. Child-Care Subsidies 3. Parental Choices |
| Notes | Project website: http://pace.berkeley.edu/pace_child_careplanning.html |
| Last Updated | 00/00/00 |
| Type of Summary | Unreviewed |
| Contact(s) |
Diane Hirshberg (not reported)
University of California at Berkeley 3653 Tolman Hall (T) (510)642-7223 (F) not reported |
| Submitter(s) |
Research Forum Staff (info@researchforum.org)
National Center for Children In Poverty 215 West 125th St, 3rd Fl (T) (646)284-9600 (F) not reported |
Populations Studied
| Target Population |
Recipients/participants/clients Former recipients ("leavers") Child care providers |
| Subgroups Analyzed |
Single parent families Two-parent families |
| Sample Size and Unit | 5 Focus groups: Child Care Providers; Former and present CalWORKs recipients (n=1974); |
Sites Studied
Alameda, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Orange, Kern counties, CAProgram Components, Policies, and Activities Evaluated
Social/Support services
Administration/Implementation
| Variation in program components across sites? | No |
Outcomes Assessed
Service utilization
Caseload Dynamics
Types of Studies
| Type | Descriptive/Analytical Study |
Data Sources
| Source | Administrative data |
| Source | Interview |
| Source | Focus Group |
| Source | Secondary data |
Findings Available
Interim Descriptive/Analytical FindingsRecommendations
Existing Publications
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