This volume highlights service delivery approaches and strategies that show promise for improving the oral health care delivery system and promoting oral health. It includes descriptions and examples of implementation in different program settings and with different target populations.

This report notes that grantees developed and implemented oral health service delivery strategies that were responsive to characteristics of their communities. Implementing services and activities required substantial amounts of staff time, often more than originally estimated. One-quarter of...

To address the unmet needs of disadvantaged children, the Children and Youth program supports services aimed at promoting healthy development of young children, to prevent later problems by intervening early in a problem cycle, when services are less costly and may have a greater chance for...

Dental caries are a chronic childhood disease that disproportionately affect children living in poverty. This report describes early implementation experiences of 52 grantees implementing oral health models to address this problem. Many used grant funds to hire staff with clinical dental...

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...

The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project, funded by the Head Start Bureau in 2004, supports the quality of care that family, friends and neighbors—"kith and kin" caregivers—provide to infants and toddlers enrolled in home-based Early Head Start programs. This publication describes...

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 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...

This brief summarizes the experiences of two communities in developing home-based early learning services.

This compendium of initiatives provides comprehensive, up-to-date information about home-based child care and initiative designs to support quality in these settings.