Input on Agenda for 2017 Annual Meeting of Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium

Input on Agenda for CCEEPRC 2017 Annual Meeting

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INPUT ON AGENDA FOR 2017 ANNUAL MEETING OF

CHILD CARE AND EARLY EDUCATION POLICY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM

OMB #0970-0401

Expiration Date: 5/31/2018

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and work with us to help shape the CCEEPRC 2017 meeting agenda! We are eager to learn about new research and data developments in the child care and early education field and to facilitate connections across the consortium. Please tell us about yourself, your current interests and any relevant work you’d like to share. We anticipate it will take around 5 minutes to respond to the questions. Your participation is voluntary.

Please provide us with your contact information. We will only use this information to follow-up with you about the CCEEPRC Annual Meeting and related planning activities. You may also choose to leave this blank.
Name (First)	(Last)	Email:	Phone number:

Which professional perspective most closely reflects your current role/position? (Please select one)
Researcher IF SELECTED, ADDITIONAL OPTIONS APPEAR: Academic Research Firm/Institution Federal, State, or Local Government		Training/Technical Assistance Provider
State or Local Government		Service Provider/Organization
Federal Government		Other: (Please specify)

In the space below, please describe your current, or most recent, research project or products of relevance to the Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium (projects can be in any phase of the research process):
Project Title
Project Leads/Team (PIs, Partners)	Brief Description (150 word maximum.) Briefly describe your research objectives/questions, methods/approaches planned, focal population or geographic area (if relevant). Please highlight if there are particular research or policy issues that you are struggling with and would like to discuss with other consortium members.	Project Period/ Timing	Source of Funding: OPRE Other: (Please specify)	Topical area(s) Select a topic or several topics from the list below as they relate to your project

Note: This information will not be shared beyond consortium members involved in planning for the 2017 Annual Meeting. If your project was included in the 2015 Annual Meeting materials, you can find the project information currently on file on the Research Connections website.

Through conversations with the CCEEPRC Steering Committee, Topical Work Groups, and ACF leadership, as well as feedback from consortium members at the 2015 Annual Meeting, we have identified the following priority topics for the upcoming CCEEPRC 2017 Annual Meeting. We are particularly interested in suggestions for linking these topics to implementation of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, the new Head Start Program Performance Standards and ongoing efforts within ACF to increase collaboration among early care and education programs. Please share your reactions, questions, additional thoughts, or work relevant to any of these topics. We look forward to learning from you!

Please select the topics that interest you most and comment on as many topics as you like. Feel free not to comment on any of these.

Current Research Priorities Identified for CCEEPRC 2017: (Listed in alphabetical order)

1. Accessing high quality care, including understanding the relationships between cost and quality

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2. Child and family wellbeing, including mental health, and school readiness (e.g. social-emotional and academic skills)

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3. Early childhood workforce, including professional development and compensation

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4. Equity in early care and education, supporting families with diverse needs and experiences

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5. Home-based child care, including regulated family child care and family, friend and neighbor care

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6. Implementation and scale up of evidence-based interventions and programs

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7. Increasing quality of care for infants and toddlers

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8. Innovative tools and methodology, including assessment

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9. Linking and using administrative data and other large-scale datasets (e.g. NSECE, FACES, Baby FACES, Head Start CARES, American Community Survey, SIPP, state/local datasets)

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10. New regulations, including the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Regulation and the Head Start Program Performance Standards

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11. Promoting continuous quality improvement in early care and education

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12. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) and other quality initiatives

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13. Research-to-Practice considerations, including dissemination efforts tailored to multiple audiences, such as CCDF and Head Start stakeholders

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14. Research Partnerships, i.e. partnering across research, policy or practice contexts

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15. Subsidy policies, practices, and procedures, including changes due to reauthorization

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16. Two-generation, or whole-family approaches

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17. Working across different program contexts, including Head Start, child care, and pre-K (e.g. navigating braided funding, differing program standards and regulations)

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What other topics or issues do you want to address at CCEEPRC 2017? Please describe in 2-3 sentences which topics or questions you or your colleagues are exploring and would be willing to discuss with others in CCEEPRC community.

Thank you so much for your input and contributions to planning the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium!

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