Source: Child Trends – March 21, 2012 Child Trends has published a new research brief, Families and Child Outcomes: The Importance of Emotional Support for Mothers (March 2012), which finds that emotional support for mothers improves outcomes for children, even...
Source: Brookings Institute and Stanford University – March 19, 2012 The Brookings Institute recently published a new report, Starting School at a Disadvantage: The School Readiness of Poor Children (March 2012) by Julia B. Isaacs, which shows that only 48% of...
The Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines was published in the Federal Register on January 26, 2012. 2012 Poverty Guidelines. This is a summary of the poverty guidelines that were published by the Department of Health and Human Services. This information is...
The Office of Child Care (OCC) and the Office of Head Start (OHS), both part of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children & Families (ACF), recently announced the launch of new Web sites. The new Office of Child Care Web site...
The 10th Annual WHSA Conference was held February 6-8, 2012 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. This post provides a summary of the photography and a link to .pdf document with these photos. Click on this link for the 2012 WHSA Conference Photos! A...
President Obama announced that he will be enacting an Executive Rule to improve high quality and accountability for Head Start programs. This Rule will require Head Start program grantees that fail to meet a new set of rigorous benchmarks to re-compete for continued...
On August 4th, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) Secretary Eloise Anderson announced DCF’s statewide campaign to raise awareness among working parents about YoungStar, the state’s childcare quality rating and improvement system. YoungStar...
“Head Start and the Changing Demographics of Today’s Young Children” (July 2011), a new paper by Olivia Golden for the Urban Institute and published in NHSA’s Dialog Briefs (vol. 14, no, 1), describes recent changes in both the racial/ethnic...
Two key reports on the state of federal spending on children’s program were release at the third Children’s Budget Summit, “Perspective on Children as a National Priority.” Together, the reports paint a grim picture for the future of...
