Researchers examined the health status, safety, and health care of participating children and families, finding that most children were in excellent or very good health. However, the youngest children were most vulnerable. Parental reports of the percentage of children in fair or poor health...

This report highlights information from a survey of Early Head Start programs that examined management structures and program services nationally. The report describes program approaches to service delivery, management and staffing, and partnerships. It also examines the characteristics of...

This article examines the relation between low-income fathers’ presence in their children’s lives and children’s early developmental outcomes. Children with resident or involved nonresident biological fathers showed higher levels of self-regulation and lower levels of aggression than...

This report estimates Early Head Start impacts on children and families when children were in fifth grade. It includes additional nonexperimental analyses to inform program practice and guide future research. Impacts on the full sample of children and families in the grade 5 followup suggest...

This volume provides a compendium of measures that could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of Head Start enhancements. The focus is on child outcome measures, although measures pertaining to intermediate outcomes related both to changes in the program and changes in the home are included....

Families with infants and toddlers, especially low-income families, rely heavily on child care that is provided by family, friends, and neighbors ("kith and kin" caregivers). The national evaluation of Early Head Start found that a large proportion of program families used kith and kin care. In...