Describes the characteristics of the roughly 10,000 participants who enrolled in the 18 SPI projects from January 1999 through March 2003. Participants faced significant barriers to employment, including severe disabilities and limited education and employment experience. Two-thirds were...

This report describes strategies for supporting quality in home-based child care settings as well as considerations for decision-making and ongoing evaluation.

Demonstrates modest positive effects of a family support intervention in promoting the adjustment of children with selective chronic health conditions. Including child life specialists in a community-based intervention may be especially salient for children with chronic illness who have low...

This report presents 30-month impact and benefit-cost analysis findings for the Building Nebraska Families program, an intensive home visitation and life skills education program for hard-to-employ TANF clients in rural Nebraska. The program improved employment near the end of the 30-month...

Assessment is fundamentally a positive process that holds the potential for enhancing teaching and improving learning. This chapter provides an analytical discussion of the field by adhering to the National Education Goals Panel typology that categorizes four uses or roles for assessment in the...

Summarizes recent work in the food security area and methods used to measure food security; also describes analytic and empirical issues related to analyzing food security data.