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Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships   \nPatricia Del Grosso, Jaime Thomas, Nickie Fung, Michael Levere, and Scilla Albanese  \nIn 2015, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) awarded 250 Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnership grants.1 The grants were awarded to existing EHS and Head Start grantees and entities new to EHS for the purpose of developing and implementing partnerships with regulated, community-based child care centersand family child care providers serving infants and toddlers.  \nThrough these partnerships, ACF aimed to expand the availability of high quality early care and education opportunities for infants and toddlers from low-income families.  \nEHS-CC Partnerships bring together the best features of EHSand community-based child care by combining the high quality comprehensive, relationship-based child development and family services of EHS with the flexibility of child care and its responsiveness to the social, cultural, and work-support needs of families. EHS and child care partners work together to provide full-day, full-year early care and education services to enrolled infantsand toddlers, as well as services designed to support children’s healthy development and parents’role as their child’s first teacher.  \nProviding comprehensive services to infantsand toddlers and their families  \nPrior research suggests that early care and education partnerships enhance child care partners’ability to offer and provide access to comprehensive services to children and families.2 Comprehensive services are intended to support families in their role as caregivers and foster the health and well-being of children.3 Connecting children and families to these services is a foundational feature of the Head Start and EHS models, and is a requirement outlined by the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS; see Box 1).4 EHS and childcare partners are required to offer comprehensive services that adhere to the HSPPS to all children who were enrolled and directly supported through funds from the EHS-CC Partnership grants (that is, children in partnership slots; see Box 2) as well as their families.  \nPartnerships in early care and education settings also hold promise for expanding access to comprehensive services to a broader group of children and families than those directly participating in the program.5 Specifically, the EHS-CC Partnerships may extend the reach of comprehensive services to children enrolled in partnering child care centers and family child care homes that are not directly supported through funding from the grant (that is, children in nonpartnership slots; see Box 2) .  \nThis brief draws on data from the national descriptive study of EHS-CC Partnerships to describe the range of services offered to children in both partnership and nonpartnershipslots and their families.6  \nThis brief addresses the following questions:  \n• What comprehensive services did EHS-CC Partnerships offer to children enrolled in partnership slots and their families?  \n• To what extent did EHS-CC Partnerships offer comprehensive services to children in nonpartnership slots and their families?  \n• Who provides comprehensive services to children and families in EHS-CC Partnerships? That is, does the child care or EHS partner provide services directly to children and families, or does the EHS-CC Partnership refer children and families to services that community partners provide?7  \n• To what extent did child care partners report offering comprehensive services before engaging in the EHS-CC Partnership grant?  \nProviding comprehensive services to infants and toddlers and their families  \nBox 1. HSPPS: Comprehensive services  \nThe HSPPS define standards and minimum requirements for the entire range of services offered through Head Start and EHS, including (but not limited to):  \n• Connection and access to preventive health care services for children and their families","cbCaihLQyLiIV6Gc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihLQyLiIV6Gc","pdf",296079,"English","# Background and partnership goals\n# Comprehensive services for children and families\n## HSPPS: Comprehensive services (Box 1)\n# Access beyond partnership slots\n# Scope and research questions","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the 2015 EHS-CC Partnership grants?\",\"answer\":\"The grants were designed to develop and implement partnerships with regulated, community-based child care centers and family child care providers serving infants and toddlers.\"},{\"question\":\"What comprehensive services are required under the HSPPS for EHS-CC partnerships?\",\"answer\":\"The HSPPS define minimum standards for services, including preventive health care access, support for emotional/social/cognitive development, and family engagement such as parenting support and links to economic and social services.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the brief compare comprehensive services in partnership versus nonpartnership slots?\",\"answer\":\"It examines the range and extent of services offered to children and families in both partnership slots (directly supported) and nonpartnership slots (not directly supported through grant funding), and identifies who provides services or makes referrals.\"}]","Findings from the National Descriptive Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships - Brief | PDF",1792061979]