€™s Children, Families, and Communities program. …

arrangements and educational program participation. It presents the most recent data available for children under the age of six … Program. Variation in participation rates by characteristics of children (age and race/ethnicity) and their families … the time children spend in nonparental care each week and to the amount their families pay for care. …

to children enrolled in Early Head Start. Mathematica's two-year evaluation identified program models, documented …. Researchers note that more than two-thirds of caregivers in the pilot were related to the children in their care, with nearly half … being the children's grandparents. Nearly all programs implemented strategies to improve communication and increase …