OPRE Evaluation: The Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES)—2020 [Nationally-representative descriptive study]

Information collection for Baby FACES 2020 was approved in October 2019. Recruitment of programs and study participants for the 2020 round of Baby FACES began in October 2019 and data collection began on February 24, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread program closures, however, data collection was suspended on March 13, three weeks into data collection. The 2020 round of Baby FACES data collection was subsequently postponed until spring of 2021. The delay requires that all instruments and materials are updated with the new date references and modifications to acknowledge program participation in spring 2020. Restarting data collection in spring 2021 will require recruiting programs and participants again. Additionally, uncertainty about the future of the pandemic raises questions about whether there may be ongoing impacts on program operations or families. Thus, we propose adding a few questions about COVID-19 to three of the instruments to learn about program and family experiences in the pandemic. We also propose adding additional reminders to families as we are concerned that additional outreach may be needed to reach the targeted response rates (particularly if we need to do some or all data collection remotely). These changes are minor.

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Instrument 1: Classroom/ home visitor sampling form (from EHS staff)

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