Center for Supporting Research on Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Implementation

As states and territories make decisions about child care policies, they may find it useful to collect data from child care providers. Survey data can be helpful for answering questions about providers’ characteristics and experiences. Yet surveys can be difficult to design. This brief discusses best practices for developing and testing surveys.

A one-page tip sheet lists suggestions for writing strong survey questions. 

Every Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency can use research and evaluation services. Even if your agency has an internal research department, sometimes you may need to procure (i.e., contract out) specialized research or evaluation services. You can be more successful in getting the research and evaluation services you need if you have some understanding of the procurement process in your state.

Research and evaluation play an important role in supporting government agencies in making optimal policy, programmatic, and operational decisions. This guide provides an annotated list of selected...

Many states are expanding training and professional development for home-based child care providers in response to the 2014 reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act. As states roll out new training...

Research and evaluation play an important role in supporting government agencies in making optimal policy, programmatic, and operational decisions. This tool is designed to support Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies in strengthening their capacity to carry out and use research in decision-making.

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The Urban Institute, in partnership with ICF International, was awarded a contract that will support the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in learning from high-quality, rigorous research, to be conducted by Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies in partnership with researchers, on the implementation of policies responding to the goals of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014...

This webinar is designed to support CCDF Lead Agency staff and their partners in using existing administrative data to address policy questions posed by state legislators, agency heads, local child care providers, and other stakeholders.

Explore OPRE's webinar that shows how policy-researcher partnerships can study culturally-responsive child-teacher interactions, key steps in the process of designing such a study, and preliminary lessons learned in carrying out this type of study and applying findings to early care and education practice.

This webinar aims to support Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency staff, their research partners, and others interested in learning about measuring policy changes by focusing on the 12-month subsidy eligibility period, its implementation, and its effects on stability.

This webinar is designed to support CCDF Lead Agency staff and partners in understanding how stakeholder perspectives can be paired with agency data to help answer more policy questions. Learn how the perspectives of the people experiencing or implementing the policies can increase understanding of problems, possible solutions, and community contexts...

Sharing maps of child care supply and demand with policy and program staff can help stimulate data-informed discussions about child care issues facing your state, territory, or tribal agency. This is the second in a series of webinars on Building Your Capacity as a CCDF Lead Agency to Use Data in Policy Decisions, hosted by the Center for Supporting Research on CCDBG Implementation with support from the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation...