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As a result of partnering with the Children’s Data Network, we linked data with the Department of Children and Family Services to work toward advocating for greater synergy between ECE - and child welfare systems to serve the state’s most vulnerable children in quality settings. This project found that more than 1 in 4 children in ECE are also known to child welfare. This project has generated interest from policy-makers, funders and practitioners as ground-breaking work in using data across multiple systems to be able to ask and answer important policy questions such as: how many children are in both systems? Are there certain funding streams where the overlap is greater? Which comes first, child care or child welfare involvement? How can we use this information to ensure critical supports such as high quality child care are available to our most vulnerable children?
As a major contributor on the federally funded Child Care Research Partnership project, CCRC has distributed over 7,200 surveys across five California counties and facilitated a series of focus groups in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. This work, in concert with nearly 100 case study interviews being conducted by California State University, Northridge, has provided key findings which were presented in 2016 to the California QRIS Consortium, the Early Education and Support Division of the California Department of Education, the Licensing Unit of the California Department of Social Services, First 5 California, International Society for Infant Studies, National Association of Family Child Care Training Institute, and at the National Research Conference on Early Childhood.
CCRC’s Research and Communications teams work with the CEO’s office to create engaging data portfolios and maps for local, state and federal elected officials that fall within CCRC’s service area boundary. This year the team produced 34 sets of maps, for a total of 136 individual maps. Each set of maps represents child care recipients, license-exempt providers, family child care home providers, and child care centers. These high quality materials inform policy-makers on a variety of issues surrounding early care and education.
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