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4 Evaluating Program Access and Participation Trends
4 Evaluating Program Access and Participation Trends
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? Workshop participants explored methods for evaluating program access and participation trends, beginning with a general examination of the use of administrative data and then proceeding to more detailed examinations of methodological approaches to assessing program access (both providers and participants)
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voucher program, Gina Adams and Monica Rohacek discussed key factors likely to shape provider participation (e.g., various provider individual characteristics, and CACFP policies and implementation practices) and ways to measure those factors.
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Family day care homes must be sponsored; child care centers must either be sponsored by another agency or self-sponsored. Below the sponsors are the "outlets," that is, the child care centers and homes where served meals are reimbursed by CACFP.
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Figure 4-1 do not operate every month, for example, during the summer months, and therefore do not submit claim forms every month. Plus, programs sometimes submit late claim forms or revise their claim forms later.
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Because no data are available on a regular basis for the universe of eligible nonparticipating sponsors or outlets, one cannot do any comparative analyses of participating versus nonparticipating eligible providers. National Data In Glantz's opinion, the best available administrative data are national trend data, such as the number of child care centers participating in CACFP and the proportion of participating centers that are for-profit versus nonprofit or sponsored versus independent.
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FIGURE 4-3 Average daily attendance in Tier I and Tier II family child care homes, fiscal years 1997–2011. SOURCE: Glantz, 2012.
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. The second study was a 2003–2004 mixed method study that involved a representative survey of centers and family child care homes in five counties across four states, and a qualitative study involving focus groups and interviews with providers, subsidy staff, administrators, and experts (Adams et al., 2008; Rohacek et al., 2008; Snyder et al., 2008)
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Type (Is it a center or family child care?
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They also offer valuable methodological lessons about how to collect those data. Monica Rohacek identified four main methodological issues to consider when designing a national study of CACFP provider participation: (1)
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Engaging family child care home providers can be especially challenging. Urban Institute researchers have found it useful to explain to providers that implementation research is very different than compliance monitoring and that the ultimate goal is to help providers.
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Datta described it as an "enormous data collection effort." Data are being collected on (1) center-based providers (Head Start, school- and 5 Thissection summarizes the presentation of Rupa Datta from NORC at the University of Chicago.
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as well as with food availability and other relevant data. She also suggested exploring child care usage data from some of the ongoing national household studies such as the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
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Head Start provides grants to local public and private for-profit and nonprofit agencies and provides comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families. Unlike Head Start, the Child Care Subsidy Program, also known as CCDF, does not directly make child care available.
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The Child Care Subsidy Program The Child Care Subsidy Program, again also known as CCDF, does not collect CACFP participation data. However, as with Head Start, they do collect some information that may be of interest.
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2011. Child and Adult Care Food Program: Aligning dietary guidance for all.
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