This issue brief summarizes Mathematica’s study of Virginia’s Coordinated Economic Relief Centers (CERCs), a comprehensive approach to supporting workers and their families in rural areas by providing the services of many agencies at a one-stop location. The study found that CERCs...

The final report to Congress presents complete findings from our seven-year national evaluation of Early Head Start. The findings show that the program promotes learning and the parenting that supports it within the first three years of life. Participating children perform significantly better...

Faith-based and community organizations have the potential to be valuable partners in the workforce investment system. This report presents findings from Mathematica’s evaluation of grants to Workforce Investment Boards to increase the number of faith-based and community organizations...

Early Head Start, a federal program begun in 1995 for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, was evaluated through a randomized trial of 3,001 families in 17 programs. Interviews with primary caregivers, child assessments, and observations of parent– child...

This literature review, conducted as part of the Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, assesses the current knowledge base for early care and education (ECE) partnerships, highlights promising models or components of models for these partnerships, and identifies gaps in the...

This report summarizes the final design for the cross-site evaluation, including detailed information about data collection and analysis plans.

This report provides a brief summary of the cross-site evaluation design.

This report describes the review process and findings for a systematic review of home visiting program models implemented in tribal communities or evaluated with American Indian and Alaska Native families and children. The review assessed evidence of effectiveness for culturally relevant models...