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Hines, Charletta; And Others – 1978
Needs assessment questionnaires were sent to both social service providers and consumers in Contra Costa County, California. This project was designed with three purposes in mind: to determine the level and gaps in services provision for children in the county; to compare consumer and provider perceptions of children's services in the county; and…
Descriptors: Children, Community Recreation Programs, County Programs, Day Care
Peer reviewedBjorklund, Gail – Young Children, 1994
Discusses the creation of an Employer Child Care Council and its Quality Child Care Initiative, a comprehensive plan to improve the care and education of the county's children by generating support from the business community for the accreditation of quality child care programs. Also outlines the council's strategies for successfully implementing…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Change Strategies, County Programs, Day Care
Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
In response to congressional approaches to welfare reform, this report describes a study of the extent to which child care needs of welfare recipients in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program are currently being met, whether any barriers exist to meeting the child care needs of JOBS participants, the effects of child care subsidies…
Descriptors: County Programs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs
Scoll, Barbara; Engstrom, Roger – 1985
In January of 1982, the Hennepin County Community Services Department began implementing a day care voucher system which allowed day care clients to place their children in any licensed day care home or center that was willing to contract with Hennepin County. In October of the same year, Hennepin County was awarded a grant by the Department of…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, County Programs, Day Care, Delivery Systems
Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
This is Volume II-A of a study to describe federally-subsidized state and county child day care management systems and to report how well the management systems work. Information is reported in terms of nine subsystems: (1) Needs Assessment, (2) Planning and Implementation, (3) Evaluation, (4) Information and Referral, (5) Client Eligibility, (6)…
Descriptors: Child Care, County Programs, Day Care, Family Day Care
Social and Rehabilitation Service (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
The objectives of this study were to describe federally-subsidized state and county child day care management systems and report how well the management systems work. Included in the category of child day care are family day care, in-home care, group day care and center day care. The document is divided into the following sections: (1) Overview,…
Descriptors: Child Care, County Programs, Day Care, Family Day Care
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1977
This draft report on the development and testing of a child care Provider Services Network (PSN) model in Santa Clara County, California, includes a handbook (Manual to Optimize a PSN) designed to provide the State Department of Education and regional or local child care coordinating agencies with information needed to develop PSN optimization…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Community Coordination, Community Organizations
