Publications
Partnership publications are available in pdf files within research
areas listed below.
- Child Care System Accountability
- Child Care Subsidy Program Research
- Oregon Child Care Dynamics: Supply, Demand, and Other
- Oregon Market Rate Studies
- Quality of Care from a Parent Perspective
- Parents as Decision-Makers and Managers
- Tools for State Child Care Policy Research
Child Care System Accountability
Results Accountability Guidebook: Child Care Resource & Referral (Guidebook)
Author(s): Clara Pratt, Rachel Ozretich,
Roberta Weber
The guidebook illustrates program outcomes that are realistic given
the typical length and nature of CCR&R activities. From the outcomes
illustrated in this guidebook, CCR&Rs can select, or refine, a limited
number of priority outcomes that are appropriate to their activities
and communities. If no outcomes “fit” then the guidebook
principles can be used to define outcomes that are appropriate to a CCR&R’s
community and activities.
Published: October, 2000
Child Care Subsidy Program Research
Why Do They Leave? Child Care Subsidy Use in Oregon (Research Report)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta B. Weber, Elizabeth E. Davis
The short duration of subsidy use and the possible implications for the stability of child care arrangements,
child development, and parental employment stability were the primary motivations behind this study to investigate
the reasons parents leave the subsidy program after only a few months. This report explores three main hypotheses
on why parents leave the subsidy program: (i) Instability in other aspects of their lives, such as employment changes
or family mobility, disrupts participation in the subsidy program. (ii) Parents are no longer eligible for subsidy
(particularly due to increased income). (iii) Parents perceive the cost in time and effort of maintaining a subsidy
is greater than the benefit of the subsidy.
Published: March, 2006
Why Do They Leave? Child Care Subsidy Use in Oregon (Child Care Policy Research Issue Brief)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta B. Weber, Elizabeth E. Davis
This brief highlights the major findings from a study that explores three main hypotheses on why parents leave the
subsidy program: (i) Instability in other aspects of their lives, such as employment changes or family mobility,
disrupts participation in the subsidy program. (ii) Parents are no longer eligible for subsidy (particularly due to
increased income). (iii) Parents perceive the cost in time and effort of maintaining a subsidy is greater than the
benefit of the subsidy.
Published: March, 2006
Guidebook for Implementing a Study on the Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use (Guidebook)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta Weber, Elizabeth
Davis
The purpose of this guidebook is to enable states and researchers to
conduct their own studies on the dynamics of child care subsidy use.
To accomplish this goal, this guidebook describes the methodology developed
through a five-state study on this topic. Although there are various
ways one could approach a study on child care subsidy use, replicating
the same methodology will enable states to compare their findings with
those of other states. These comparisons increase the usefulness of
the states' findings. Further, by sharing states' findings, we will
begin
to create a national picture of the dynamics of child care subsidy
use.
Published: March, 2003
The Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use: A Collaborative Study of Five States (Research Report)
Author(s): Marcia Meyers, Laura Peck, Elizabeth
Davis, Ann Collins, Lee Kreader, Annie Georges, Roberta Weber, Deanna
Schexnayder, Daniel
Schroeder, Jerry Olson
To advance knowledge and understanding about the dynamic use of child
care subsidies, this study used data from five states (Illinois, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas) to address the following questions
about child care subsidy use and cross state variation: What are the
characteristics
of children and families who receive subsidies? What services do subsidized
children and families in these states receive? How continuous is subsidy
receipt; i.e., how long do spells of subsidy receipt last? What is
the duration of subsidy use; i.e., how likely is it that children who
end
a spell of subsidy receipt subsequently begin another? How stable are
children’s care arrangements while they are in the subsidy system?
Published: July, 2002
Continuity and Stability: Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use in Oregon (Research Report)
Author(s): Roberta Weber, Elizabeth Davis
This report provides a detailed look at Oregon families receiving child
care subsidies and the factors associated with length of subsidy receipt
and provider stability and compares these findings with those of four
other states (Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Texas). It describes
the characteristics of families and children receiving subsidies, the
type of care used, the stability of that care, and the length of time
on subsidy.
Published: August, 2003
Parents Receiving Child Care Subsidies: Where Do They Work? (Research Report and Guidebook)
Author(s): Kumiko Okuyama, Roberta Weber
This report summarizes seven studies that examine the employment patterns
of child care subsidy recipients. While sharing the same basic methodology,
these seven studies differ from each other in scope, time period, and
data sources used in the analyses. The report also includes an Employer
Study Guidebook to enable others to conduct their own employer study.
Published: October, 2001
AFS Consumer Survey: From Parents Receiving Child Care Assistance (Research Report)
Authors(s): Arthur Emlen
Oregon Adult and Family Services (AFS) conducts a periodic survey of
parents who receive child-care assistance through the Integrated Child
Care Program. The first child-care consumer survey was conducted in
1990, and provided information that was useful in making extensive
changes
in the program. The survey was carried out again in 1994, and more
recently, in 1998. The survey asks questions such as what types of
care parents
use, how they get to work, what are their work schedules, how they
rate their caregiver, whether they have choices, and how often they
change
caregivers. As a result of including similar questions in other Oregon
consumer surveys, these data provide perspective on how AFS clients
fare in the child-care market. This information can also be viewed
in light
of information from the survey of providers conducted at the same time. Findings
Published: November, 1998
AFS Provider Survey: From Child-Care Providers Serving Parents Who Receive Child-Care Assistance (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
Oregon Adult and Family Services (AFS) conducts a periodic survey of
parents who are serving parents receiving child-care assistance through
the Integrated Child Care Program. The first child-care provider survey
was conducted in 1990, and provided information that was useful in
making extensive changes in the program. The survey was carried out
again in
1994, and more recently, in 1998. The survey identifies the type of
care they provide, such as center, provider home, or child’s
home, and asks how they collect fees from parents, what training has
been completed,
and how they evaluate the AFS program and payment system. This system
can be viewed with information from a survey of parents conducted at
the same time. Findings
Published: November, 1998
Oregon's Parents Receiving Child-Care Assistance: Where Do They Work? (Research Report)
Author(s): Bryan Conway, Janis Elliot
The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify the sources of
employment for two groups of low-income employed parents: (1) those
transitioning from public assistance, and (2) those who never received
public assistance
or who have not received public assistance during the past year. This
study looks at the industries employing parents enrolled in Oregon’s
child care subsidy program, Employment Related Day Care (ERDC). The study
looks at the employment patterns, the industry in which the parent received
the most wages in the quarter studied, and the average quarterly wages
of parents employed in that industry. The study also looks at differences
and similarities between different geographic areas in the state. In
order to compare these parents to others in the workforce not receiving
a child care subsidy, the study compares the parents in the study to
the Oregon Labor Force as a whole and to the poorest fifth of Oregon’s
Labor Force.
Published: July 11, 1997
Oregon Child Care Dynamics: Supply, Demand, and Other Estimates (formerly called Data for Community Planning)
Child Care and Education in Oregon and Its Counties: 2004 (Research Report)
Author(s): Bobbie Weber of the Oregon Child Resource and Referral network, Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University,
Becky Vorpagel of Information Architecture, consultant to the Oregon Child Care Resource and Referral Network,
and Ben Kujala of the Oregon Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Every two years the Oregon Child Care Research Partnership takes a snapshot of how well Oregon's child care and education system is serving children and families.
Child Care and Education in Oregon and Its Counties describes how the system is working through state and county profiles.
The report links study findings to Oregon's principal child care benchmarks:affordability, availability, and quality.
Published: March, 2007
Data for Community Planning: 2000 Oregon Population Estimates & Survey Findings (Research Report)
Author(s): Oregon Childhood Care and Education
Data Project
Data for Community Planning focuses on the forces which determine child
care demand, supply and affordability. The report links these findings
to Oregon’s principal child care benchmarks: affordability, availability,
and quality. All the information contained in this report is based on
spring 2000 research, population estimates and program data, except where
noted otherwise.
Published: September, 2002
Child Care and Education in Oregon and Its Counties: 1998 (Research Report)
Author(s): Bobbie Weber, Kumiko Okuyama,
and Beth Kapsch
Every two years the Oregon Child Care Research Partnership takes a
snapshot of how Oregon’s child care and education system is doing. Child
Care and Education in Oregon and Its Counties describes how the system
is working through state and county profiles. The report links study
findings to Oregon’s principal child care benchmarks: affordability,
availability, and quality. More detailed information can be found in
a companion document, Data for Community Planning: 1998 Oregon Population
Estimates and Survey Findings.
Published: September, 2000
Data for Community Planning: 1998 Oregon Population Estimates & Survey Findings (Research Report)
Author(s): Oregon Childhood Care and Education
Data Project
Data for Community Planning focuses on the forces which determine child
care demand, supply and affordability. The report links these findings
to Oregon’s principal child care benchmarks: affordability, availability,
and quality. All the information contained in this report is based on
spring 1998 research, population estimates and program data, except where
noted otherwise.
Published: May, 2000
Child Care Works…When We Work Together: Data for Community Planning, 1994 Oregon Population Estimates & Survey Findings (Research Report)
Author(s): Oregon Childhood Care and Education
Data Project
Data for Community Planning focuses on the forces which determine child
care demand, supply and affordability. The report links these findings
to Oregon’s principal child care benchmarks: affordability, availability,
and quality. All the information contained in this report is based on
1994 research, population estimates and program data, except where noted
otherwise.
Published: May, 1996
Oregon Market Rate Studies
Tribal Child Care and Development Fund Grantees: Market Rate Surveys and Other Child Care Practices and Policies
Author(s): Roberta B. Weber, Deana Grobe
This brief describes the findings from two surveys with tribes that receive CCDF funds in 2004. First, we describe basic child care practices of all tribal CCDF grantees. Following that, we describe the survey practices and policies of the 28 tribes that used findings of their own child care market rate survey.
Published: August, 2007
Practices and Policies: Market Rate Surveys in States, Territories, and Tribes (Research Report)
Author(s): Roberta B. Weber, Deana Grobe, Elizabeth E. Davis,
J. Lee Kreader, Clara C. Pratt
A presentation of findings from a study examining current child care market
rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico,
Virgin Islands, and the 28 federally-recognized tribes that conduct their own
market rate surveys, includes findings on challenges faced by jurisdictions in
conducting and using findings from surveys, description of how jurisdictions
provided study data, and findings and discussion on the use of market rate
surveys to produce valid data.
Published: May, 2007
2006 Oregon Child Care Market Rate Study (Research Report)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Clara Pratt, Roberta Weber
The 2006 Market Rate Study identifies child care prices or rates and the
geographic distribution of these rates across the state. Rates vary by several
factors including the age of child served, type of care (family child care,
center, group home), the local supply and demand for child care, and providers'
perceptions of the capacity of families to pay for care.
Published: August, 2006
Market Rate Study Guidebook: A Guide to Implementing a Child Care Market Rate Study Using Child Care Resource & Referral Data (Guidebook)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta Weber, Clara
Pratt, Arthur Emlen
This guide was developed to assist states and researchers in conducting
a child care market rate study using the CCR&R data. States may be
interested in using this approach, given that use of CCR&R data:
(1) supports analysis of statewide market rates and geographic distribution
of rates; (2) facilitates analysis of child care accessibility for those
receiving child care subsidies; (3) provides convenient, inexpensive,
and accessible data; (4) facilitates comparison of market rates over
time; (5) reflects the complexity of the child care market; and (6) includes
providers who are regularly and actively seeking business. Although several
guides have been written that discuss how to conduct a market rate study
using surveys, the contribution of this guidebook is to illustrate how
Oregon has used CCR&R data to study market rates and to highlight
the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. Description of this market
rate methodology also lays out lessons learned from the work of the Oregon
Child Care Research Partnership in its efforts to build a body of policy-relevant
research methodology.
Published: September, 2003
2002 Oregon Child Care Market Rate Study (Research Report)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Clara Pratt, Roberta Weber
The 2002 Market Rate Study identifies child care prices or rates and
the geographic distribution of these rates across the state. Rates
vary by several factors including the age of child served, type of
care (family
child care, center, group home), the local supply and demand for child
care, and providers’ perceptions of the capacity of families to
pay for care.
Published: January, 2003
2000 Oregon Child Care Market Rate Study (Research Report)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Clara Pratt
The purpose of the year 2000 Oregon market rate study was to identify
child care market rates and the geographic distribution of these rates
across the state. Based on the identified rate distribution, geographic
rate areas were recommended to guide Adult and Family Services (AFS)
in establishing provider payment policies.
Published: September, 2000
Oregon Child Care Market Rate Study (Research Report)
Author(s): Karen Tvedt, Arthur Emlen
In December 1998, the Adult and Family Services Division (AFS) of the
Oregon Department of Human Resources (DHR) contracted with the Portland
State University Regional Research Institute to conduct a telephone
survey of child care providers to obtain up-to-date market rate information.
This document reports the results of that survey as well as background
information regarding the survey process and methodology.
Published: March, 1999
Market Rate, 1994: Sampling the Price of Child Care in Oregon (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
This report presents the findings of the 1994 market-rate study, most
specifically by reporting the 75th percentile rate charged for each
kind of care found in communities throughout the state of Oregon.
Published: April, 1995
The 1992 Oregon Child Care Rates (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
Under the Family Support Act, federal-state policy calls for subsidizing
the child care of families who are trying to make it from welfare into
the labor force. In order to facilitate this transition, the government
empowers these families financially to be competitive in finding and
purchasing child care in the local community where they live and work.
This is done by pegging the subsidy at the 75th percentile of prices
found in the community based on a survey of child care rates.
Published: September, 1992
Analysis of Child Care Rates in Oregon (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
This report to Adult and Family services is an analysis of the rates
that Oregon child care providers report charging for the care of infants,
toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. The report consists
of: (1) a recommended rate schedule for family day care and center
care in Oregon based on analyses of the geographic variation in rates
for
infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children, (2) a discussion
of the results of the analysis and of the methodological issues involved,
and (3) a discussion of the results of an analysis of child care expenditures
from a sample of Oregon employees (demand data) for comparison with
and validation of the child care rates reported by providers (supply
data).
Published: March, 1990
Quality of Care from a Parent Perspective
A Packet of Scales for Measuring Quality of Child Care from a Parent’s Point of View: With Summary of Method and Findings (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen, Paul Koren, Kathryn
Schultze
These scales measure quality of child care from a parent’s point
of view. The measurement scales were developed in a four-year project
under a grant from the Child Care Bureau to Portland State University
and the Oregon Child Care Research Partnership. A full description of
the methodology and findings appeared in a final report From a Parent’s
Point of View: Measuring the Quality of Child Care. The scales provide
useful and reliable measurement tools for parent assessment of the quality
of their child care arrangements.
Published: November, 2000
Quality of Care for Children with a Disability (Presentation Notes)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen, Kathryn Weit
A survey called “Quality of Care From a Parent’s Point of
View” questioned parents about current child care, mostly in paid
arrangements. Included was a subsample of 56 parents of children age
three or older who said “Yes, my child has an emotional or behavioral
problem that requires special attention.” This study compares these
parents to 420 parents who had children age three or older who said “No” to
that question.
Published: 1999
From a Parent's Points of View: Measuring the Quality of Child Care (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen, Paul Koren, Kathryn
Schultze
In October 1995, a grant from the Child Care Bureau made it possible
for the Oregon Child Care Research Partnership to conduct research
on the measurement of quality of care. This was initiated through a
survey
questionnaire about child care called “Quality of Care From a Parent’s
Point of View”. This is the final report of that project.
Published: October, 1999
From a Parent's Points of View: Flexibility, Income, and Quality of Child Care (Working Paper)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
List of findings from a paper presented at the SEED 2000 meeting “Child
Care in the New Policy Context”, National Institute of Health (NIH)
Campus, Bethesda, Maryland.
Published: October, 1999
Quality of Care From a Parent's Points of View: A Place at the Policy Table for Child Care Consumers (Working Paper)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
Paper prepared for “Innovators in Child Care Consumer Education” Leadership
Forum, Child Care Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Published: October, 1997
Quality of Care From a Parent's Points of View: Working Papers (Working Papers)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
Series of working papers presented to the Oregon Researchers’ Roundtable.
Published: May, 1997
Research Notes and Findings: Series of Notes from Quality of Care Surveys (Research Notes)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen
Actual recording of research process that included posting the research
to date so that researchers could engage in Art’s research process
and provide feedback. This document lists the various research steps
and dates.
Published: 1996
Parents as Decision-Makers and Managers
Improving Child Care: Providing Comparative Information on Child Care Facilities to Parents and the Community (Child Care Policy Research Issue Brief)
Author(s): Roberta Weber, Jerri Wolfe
This is a concept paper for a pilot project in which a local organization
or collaboration involving state and local organizations would launch
a community effort to improve quality of care in the child care market
through collection and dissemination of factual information related
to quality of care in individual child care facilities. The term “facility” is
used throughout this paper and refers to an individual child care center
or family child care home. The paper is addressed to state child care
administrators, child care resource and referral agencies, and other
child care partners who are ideally positioned to pilot a quality indicator
information project.
Published: Summer, 2003
We Can’t Get There Without Them: Addressing the Barriers to Parent Participation in Building America’s Child Care System (Research Report)
Author(s): Roberta Weber, Jerri Wolfe
This report seeks to draw attention to the critical importance of involving
parents in child care decisions at the policy level, describes barriers
to their participation, and lists resources for those individuals and
organizations responsible for bringing people to “the table”.
Published: Summer, 2002
Airlines, Flight Attendants, and Dependent Care (Research Report)
Author(s): Alyce Desrosiers, Arthur Emlen
For the benefit of employers who open their door ‘around the
clock’ the
purpose of this study was to examine a sample of employees with some
unusual work schedules to provide objective information about employee
morale, absenteeism, sources of stress, and other workplace consequences
and their relationship to employee responsibility for dependent care.
With this information employers could gain insight into the interplay
that policies and programs can have with a work force. Findings
Published: January, 1997
Tools for State Child Care Policy Research
Why Do They Leave? Child Care Subsidy Use in Oregon (Child Care Policy Research Issue Brief)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta B. Weber, Elizabeth E. Davis
This brief highlights the major findings from a study that explores three main hypotheses on why parents leave the
subsidy program: (i) Instability in other aspects of their lives, such as employment changes or family mobility,
disrupts participation in the subsidy program. (ii) Parents are no longer eligible for subsidy (particularly due to
increased income). (iii) Parents perceive the cost in time and effort of maintaining a subsidy is greater than the
benefit of the subsidy.
Published: March, 2006
Improving Child Care: Providing Comparative Information on Child Care Facilities to Parents and the Community (Child Care Policy Research Issue Brief)
Author(s): Roberta Weber, Jerri Wolfe
This is a concept paper for a pilot project in which a local organization
or collaboration involving state and local organizations would launch
a community effort to improve quality of care in the child care market
through collection and dissemination of factual information related
to quality of care in individual child care facilities. The term “facility” is
used throughout this paper and refers to an individual child care center
or family child care home. The paper is addressed to state child care
administrators, child care resource and referral agencies, and other
child care partners who are ideally positioned to pilot a quality indicator
information project.
Published: Summer, 2003
Market Rate Study Guidebook: A Guide to Implementing a Child Care Market Rate Study Using Child Care Resource & Referral Data (Guidebook)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta Weber, Clara Pratt, Arthur
Emlen
This guide was developed to assist states and researchers in conducting
a child care market rate study using the CCR&R data. States may be interested
in using this approach, given that use of CCR&R data: (1) supports analysis
of statewide market rates and geographic distribution of rates; (2) facilitates
analysis of child care accessibility for those receiving child care subsidies;
(3) provides convenient, inexpensive, and accessible data; (4) facilitates
comparison of market rates over time; (5) reflects the complexity of the
child care market; and (6) includes providers who are regularly and actively
seeking business. Although several guides have been written that discuss
how to conduct a market rate study using surveys, the contribution of this
guidebook is to illustrate how Oregon has used CCR&R data to study market
rates and to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. Description
of this market rate methodology also lays out lessons learned from the work
of the Oregon Child Care Research Partnership in its efforts to build a
body of policy-relevant research methodology.
Published: September, 2003
Guidebook for Implementing a Study on the Dynamics of Child Care Subsidy Use (Guidebook)
Author(s): Deana Grobe, Roberta Weber, Elizabeth
Davis
The purpose of this guidebook is to enable states and researchers to
conduct their own studies on the dynamics of child care subsidy use.
To accomplish this goal, this guidebook describes the methodology developed
through a five-state study on this topic. Although there are various
ways
one could approach a study on child care subsidy use, replicating the
same methodology will enable states to compare their findings with those
of other
states. These comparisons increase the usefulness of the states' findings.
Further, by sharing states' findings, we will begin to create a national
picture of the dynamics of child care subsidy use.
Published: March, 2003
We Can't Get There Without Them: Addressing the Barriers to Parent Participation in Building America’s Child Care System (Research Report)
Author(s): Roberta Weber, Jerri Wolfe
This report seeks to draw attention to the critical importance of involving
parents in child care decisions at the policy level, describes barriers
to their participation, and lists resources for those individuals and
organizations responsible for bringing people to “the table”.
Published: Summer, 2002
Creating Research that Informs State Child Care Policy: Building and Maintaining Child Care Research Partnerships (Research Report)
Author(s): Roberta Weber, Jerri Wolfe
In January of 2001, 21 research partnership members came together for
a Residency Roundtable, a three day in-depth discussion of how partners
can work together to produce objective, valid, and reliable information
on which policy can be built and progress monitored. Representatives
of seven of the nine partnerships involved in the Child Care Policy
Research
Consortium participated. The participants included state child care
administrators from Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, and Rhode Island, and
university researchers
from Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Practitioners
and advocates represented the states of Kansas, Illinois, Oregon, Rhode
Island, and Wisconsin. The Roundtable began with a discussion of individual
projects and proceeded to an articulation of lessons learned. This
paper represents the wealth of information gathered at the Roundtable.
It is designed
to inform individuals about current practice of child care research
partnerships and to promote and support emerging partnerships.
Published: Summer, 2002
Parents Receiving Child Care Subsidies: Where do They Work? (Research Report and Guidebook)
Author(s): Kumiko Okuyama, Roberta Weber
This report summarizes seven studies that examine the employment patterns
of child care subsidy recipients. While sharing the same basic methodology,
these seven studies differ from each other in scope, time period, and
data sources used in the analyses. The report also includes an Employer
Study
Guidebook to enable others to conduct their own employer study.
Published: October, 2001
Results Accountability Guidebook: Child Care Resource & Referral (Guidebook)
Author(s): Clara Pratt, Rachel Ozretich, Roberta
Weber
The guidebook illustrates program outcomes that are realistic given
the typical length and nature of CCR&R activities. From the outcomes illustrated
in this guidebook, CCR&Rs can select, or refine, a limited number of
priority outcomes that are appropriate to their activities and communities.
If no outcomes “fit” then the guidebook principles can be used
to define outcomes that are appropriate to a CCR&R’s community
and activities.
Published: October, 2000
Research and Child Care Policy: A View from the States (Child Care Policy Research Issue Brief)
Author(s): Janis Elliot, Arthur Emlen, Karen Tvedt,
Roberta Weber
Child care research is reported with the hope that the findings will
affect policy and practice. According to a survey of state child care
administrators, it does not necessarily happen. This paper examines
reasons for limited
use of research by state policy makers. The paper explores policy issues
states currently face and discusses research needed to inform policy
decisions related to child care. Research partnerships, a promising
strategy for addressing
state research needs, are described. Recommendations emphasize strategies
to close the gap between research and state policy making. The paper
concludes with the need for strengthening the data and research capacity
of states.
The guidebook illustrates program outcomes that are realistic given
the typical length and nature of CCR&R activities. From the outcomes
illustrated in this guidebook, CCR&Rs can select, or refine, a limited
number of priority outcomes that are appropriate to their activities
and communities.
If no outcomes “fit” then the guidebook principles can be
used to define outcomes that are appropriate to a CCR&R’s community
and activities. Findings
Published: April, 1999
Oregon's Childhood Care and Education System: A Strategic Planning Guide (Strategic Planning Guide)
Author(s): Aphra Katzev, Rachel Ozretich, Deana Grobe
This strategic planning guide provides Oregon’s 36 county Commissions
on Children and Families and other interested organizations and individuals
with information and strategies to achieve a quality childhood care and
education system across the state.
Published: October, 1998
Estimating Child-Care Demand for Statewide Planning, 1993 (Research Report)
Author(s): Arthur Emlen, Paul Koren
This report is part of a continuing effort by the State of Oregon to
develop better information for planning in the development of child
care resources for Oregon families. More specifically, the purpose is
to estimate
child care demand and related family needs in order to assess the supply
of child care resources for the state as a whole and for each of its
geographic regions. We have two principle audiences. One is the network
of regional
resource and referral agencies whose job is to be the best independent
source of information about the child care market, needs, and available
resources
in its geographic area. Oregon relies heavily on county-level planning
for child care and other services affecting families. The other audience
is
the public-policy maker whose understanding of market forces and regional
differences can guide decisions as to how and where to strengthen these
resources for families and children.
Published: March, 1993
