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Excerpt from Family Day Care in the United States, Vol. 1: Summary of Findings The National Day Care Home Study was a four-year study of urban family day care sponsored by the Day Care Division of The Administration for Children, Youth and Families in the Office of Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services. Family day care is nonresidential child care provided in a private home other than the child's own. Encompassing a myriad of unique arrangements between families and their day care providers, family day care constitutes the largest, most complex system of child care in the United States. It is distinguished from care in a day care center, nursery school or other group facility as well as from substitute care provided in the child's own home. Family day care is composed of three major categories delineated by regulatory and administrative structure. The largest of these categories con sists of unregulated providers who operate informally and independently of any regulatory system. A second category consists of regulated (licensed or registered) caregivers who meet state and/ or federal standards but, except for this link with the broader day care community, operate independently. The third, and smallest, group of providers consists of regulated homes which are operated as part of day care systems or networks under the administrative auspices of a sponsoring agency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. As the first female cabinet secretary, at the height of the Great Depression, she spearheaded the fight to improve the lives of America's working people while juggling her own family responsibilities. Perkins's ideas became the cornerstones of the most important social welfare legislation in the nation's history, including unemployment compensation, child labor laws, the forty-hour work week, and Social Security. Also, as head of the Immigration Service, she fought to bring European refugees to safety. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to family and friends, this is the first complete portrait of a devoted public servant with a passionate personal life, a mother who changed the landscape of American business and society.--From publisher description.
Excerpt from Family Day Care in the United States: Site Case Studies Reports available from the Administration for Children, Youth and Families or from eric Document Reproduction Service, 190, Arlington, Virginia 22210. Executive Summary (abt Associates inc.)-synopsis of the findings from all study components including data on family day care providers, the children in their care, and the children's parents. Presents information on the nature of day care in each of the study settings and presents both cost and program daa on family day care systems. Volume 1. The National Day Care Home Study Summary Report (abt Associates inc.)-details the issues outlined in the Executive Summary. Volume II, The Research Report (abt Associates Inc.) Focuses on the caregiver and the children in her care and presents extensive descriptive and statistical analyses of the interview and observation data collected. It includes profiles of both the caregiver and the children in care, discusses the stability of the day care arrangements, the group composition of the family day care homes, and the costs of providing care. Concludes with a comparative analysis of the observed behaviors of caregivers and the children in their care. Volume III, Observation Component (sri International) Presents the findings from the observations conducted in day care homes in the three study sites (los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Antonio) and detailed descriptions of the methodologies used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Eighteen new chapters have been added to the 2000 edition of this valuable Handbook, which serves as a core text for students and experienced professionals who are interested in the health and well being of young children. It serves as a comprehensive reference for graduate students, advanced trainees, service providers, and policy makers in such diverse fields as child care, early childhood education, child health, and early intervention programs for children with developmental disabilities and children in high risk environments. This book will be of interest to a broad range of disciplines including psychology, child development, early childhood education, social work, pediatrics, nursing, child psychiatry, physical and occupational therapy, speech and language pathology, and social policy. A scholarly overview of the underlying knowledge base and practice of early childhood intervention, it is unique in its balance between breadth and depth and its integration of the multiple dimensions of the field.
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