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Download full textJianjun Wang – Online Submission, 2024
A 50-cent-per-pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products has been endorsed by California voters to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance with the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on revenue spending, this report delineates evaluation…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Child Health, Well Being, Early Childhood Education
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2023
California voters decided to collect a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products and use the money to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance to the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on the revenue spending, this report…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Taxes, Early Childhood Education, State Legislation
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2022
For more than two decades, California has been charging a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products and using the money to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In response to the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA), this report delineates…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Early Childhood Education, State Aid, Accountability
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2021
California ranks on top of the nation for supporting health and wellbeing of young children with statewide comprehensive programs. As part of the backbone support, voters passed Proposition 10 in 1998 to fund early childhood services with a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products. This report delineates evaluation findings…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Health, State Legislation, Program Evaluation
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2016
The California Children and Families Act of 1998 led to creation of the Kern County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Kern) to support early childhood service programs in Kern County, the third largest county in California that spread a land area as large as the state of New Jersey. In Fiscal Year 2014-15, First 5 Kern administered more…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Young Children, Partnerships in Education
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2014
Scientific discoveries indicated the importance of brain growth during the first 5 years of child life. To support early childhood development, California voter passed Proposition 10 in 1998 to collect a 50 cent per pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. Kern County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Kern) receives funding from…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Counties, Child Health
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2013
Scientific discoveries repeatedly confirmed the importance of brain growth during the first 5 years of child life. To support early childhood development, California voters passed Proposition 10 in 1998 to collect a 50 cent per pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. Kern County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Kern) was…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Brain, School Readiness
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2012
Kern County Children and Families Commission (First 5 Kern) is funded by the Proposition 10 ballot initiative to support services for children prenatal to age five in California. The state revenue comes from an extra 50-cent tax on tobacco products, and is distributed according to the proportion of live births in each county. Following a…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Advisory Committees, Counties, Program Evaluation
Howes, Carollee; Brown, Jan – 2000
As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report provides county-level commissioners and their staff with information about…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Care, Child Care Effects, Child Development
Platt, Laurence J.; Cabezas, Maritza C. – 2000
As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report describes the scope and severity of early childhood caries (ECC), a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Development, Delivery Systems, Dental Health
Wright, Kynna; Kuo, Alice; Regalado, Michael; Halfon, Neal – 2001
As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report examines how child health services can be improved to support two related…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Health, Health Programs
Berrick, Jill Duerr; Edelstein, Susan B. – 2001
As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report examines the current situation for children who have been maltreated by…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies
Halfon, Neal; Shulman, Ericka; Hochstein, Miles – 2001
As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report reviews the research about early childhood brain development, examines the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Brain, Child Development
Halfon, Neal; Russ, Shirley; Regalado, Michael – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 10, the California Children and Families First Act, which provides for an excise tax on tobacco products to fund parent education, health and child care programs that promote early childhood development for 0-5s. Since the adoption of its first Strategic Plan (2000), the Orange County First 5…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Young Children, Child Development, Intervention
