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Strengthening California’s Emergency Child Care Bridge
Study Methods Research Questions
9 research questions guided this study:
1 How do counties best implement the Bridge Program to reach the children who need it?
2 What additional supports do counties need to help them maximize the reach and
efectiveness of the Bridge Program?
3 To what extent do children receive stable, quality ECE after the voucher expires (ie, is the current voucher timeframe adequate)?
4 To what extent do agencies leverage federal funding to ensure sustainability and maximize the use of current resources?
5 To what extent has the Bridge Program contributed to collaboration among cross-system stakeholders?
6 What other challenges, lessons learned, or success stories should be told?
7 Under what conditions does the program increase access to child care for foster families?
8 Under what conditions does access to the program increase well-being for caregivers and children in foster care?
9 Under what conditions does TIC training and coaching support child care providers who work with caregivers and children in foster care?
All research activities for this project were reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board, Advarra, prior to the recruitment of participants or the collection of data The Research team collected data from a sample of 12 counties across California See Table 1 for a list of sampled counties
TABLE 1. COUNTIES PARTICIPATING IN THE BRIDGE EVALUATION
County Implementation Timeframe6 CDSS Research Region7
Colusa Mid Central Valley
Contra Costa Early Bay
Glenn Mid North & Mountain
Napa Later Bay
Riverside Later Southern California
Sacramento Mid Central Valley
San Benito Mid Southern Farm
San Bernardino Later Southern California
San Diego Mid Southern California
San Joaquin Early Southern Farm
San Luis Obispo Early Southern Farm
Sonoma Early Bay
6 Early: January-April 2018, Mid: May-October 2018, Later: November 2018 and later
7 https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/pdf/RFSurveyReport2006-07pdf The one county region not represented in this study is Los Angeles
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