The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections collection catalogs resources that researchers, policymakers, and other professionals find and use for child care and early education research. The items outlined in this resource list examine families' access to early care and education (ECE) published between 2016 and 2022 in the United…

Research Connections developed this document in collaboration with the Tribal Child Care Capacity Building Center for use during the OCC National Tribal Conference 2024 on April 9-11, 2024. This resource list highlights sample resources from the Research Connections library on the Conference topic areas. It also includes links to additional…

Research Connections conducted a comprehensive search of its collection for resources focused on the relationship between receipt of child care subsidies and employment outcomes of families receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and other low income families. From the many results, Research Connections selected a limited number of…

This bibliography is a resource for materials providing information on urban programs, services, organizations, agencies, and individuals involved in the areas of: education; recreation; employment; housing; community development; consumer protection; legal, health, and social services; and information services provided by libraries, private…

Systematically identifies: (1) occupations across the broad employment spectrum in which severely handicapped persons are employed; (2) services available to handicapped persons through a variety of agencies; and (3) major classes of barriers to employment and means for overcoming them. Offers suggestions for counselors assisting disabled clients.…

This unabridged supplement to the Child Care Information Center's tape cassette catalog contains a listing of all recordings made in calendar years 1980 and 1981. This document plus "The Revised 1976 Cassette Tape Catalog,""The 1977 Addendum," and "The 1978/1979 Unabridged Supplement" together provide a complete listing of the 1,776 tape…

This annotated bibliography provides a descriptive representation of selected literature on black families. It identifies some of the research concerns used in studying, servicing, and formulating social policies towards black families in the United States. Among the subject areas addressed are the following: (1) dynamics and functions of the…

This general bibliography contains listings on economics, education, housing, land use, architecture, politics, recreation, and social services. The listings provide current information on these topics and date from 1973 through 1975. The bulk of the documents are commercially available books, project reports, studies, and conference proceedings.…

An extensive review of the literature on Mexican-American elderly reveals more argument than consensus in interpretation of available data and a tendency for researchers to treat this population as if it were homogeneous. To improve this situation, specific recommendations for future research are offered. (Author)

Intended for parents as well as people working in the early childhood education field, this annotated bibliography contains 73 publications of primarily New Zealand and Australian origin on parent support. The first section lists materials especially for persons working with parents in the community. The second section lists 12 articles by Douglas…

This annotated bibliography addresses issues, principles, programs, and research about respite care published in articles and books from 1978-1988. It covers a wide range of topics, from comprehensive overviews of respite issues, services, and policies to descriptions of specific respite care program models. A number of the bibliographic entries…

This extensive bibliography of books and articles provides an interdisciplinary overview of present day terminal care and the hospice alternative. Designed to aid in the development and implementation of terminal care programs stressing palliative and supportive services for both patients and their families, the bibliography includes abstracts of…

This annoted bibliography relays a range of issues and approaches to working with Travellers, Irish Travellers, Gypsies, Roma and Show People. This is an accompanying document to the literature review report, ED501860.

This directory includes listings of advocacy, economic development, organizing, legal assistance, social services, research, job training, and education programs for immigrant and refugee women. It is not a comprehensive listing of all such projects, but it is a select listing of groups which responded to a questionnaire produced by the Nationwide…

This document is designed to be a resource for individuals and agencies concerned with the topic of linkages between education and human services. It begins with an overview of the topic of school-linked services, including background information and project characteristics concerning the long and somewhat unconventional history of collaboration…