This brief presents findings on informal caregivers’ and parents’ networks, focusing on child care arrangements and sources of support and information related to caregiv¬ing from a small sample of informal caregiv¬ers and parents in California’s Bay Area. It uses an...

Concludes that Early Head Start's measurement of father involvement improves on past methodologies in at least four ways: 1) it collects data from the fathers themselves; 2) it uses a variety of methods (surveys, open-ended questions, videotape) to assess quantitative and qualitative aspects of...

Notes that most Early Head Start children have either a father who lives with them or an involved nonresident father. However, there is considerable variation across programs, with some programs serving a higher percentage of resident fathers, depending on the program setting or population...

Mathematica collected data on child care settings used by program and control group families when children were 14, 24, and 36 months of age. Findings demonstrate the important role programs played: Early Head Start families were receiving not only more child care but substantially more...

This preliminary summary of program impacts shows that programs successfully delivered their intended services and that participating children performed significantly better in cognitive, language, and social-emotional development than nonparticipating children. Participating parents also showed...