Research and Evidence Based Practice
Overview
- Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
- Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)
The CIERA is a national center for research on early reading.
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
CLASP’s child care and early education work focuses on promoting policies that support both child development and the needs of low-income working parents and on expanding the availability of resources for child care and early education initiatives. CLASP examines the impact of welfare reform on child care needs; studies the relationships between child care subsidy systems, the Head Start program, pre-kindergarten efforts, and other early education initiatives; and explores how these systems can be responsive to the developmental needs of all children.
- CLASP - Child Care and Early Education: Policy Analysis, Research and Technical Assistance
- Child Trends
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children.
- Foundation for Child Development
- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
This institute is one of the nation's oldest multidisciplinary institutes for the study of young children and their families. Research and education activities focus on child development and health, especially factors that may put children at risk for developmental problems.
- Getting Ready: School Readiness Indicators Initiative
This initiative works with 17 states to develop a comprehensive set of school readiness indicators to inform public policy for young children and their families. This initiative is sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
- Healthy Child Care America
Healthy Child Care America (a campaign that was implemented in 1995-2005), introduced the idea that families, child care providers, and health professionals in partnership can promote the healthy development of young children in child care and increase access to preventive health services, safe physical environments, and a medical home for all children. Linking health professionals, child care providers, and families makes good sense - for maximizing resources, for developing comprehensive and coordinated services, and, most important, for nurturing children.
- High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
This foundation is an independent nonprofit research, development, training, and public advocacy organization with headquarters in Ypsilanti, Michigan. High/Scope's mission is to improve the life chances of children and youth by promoting high-quality educational programs.
- MATHEMATICA Policy Research, Inc.
MATHEMATICA evaluates programs designed to improve the well-being of young children and their families, particularly those at greatest risk in our society. The projects reviewed here illustrate the diversity of themes we address, the range of clients we serve, and the breadth of our early childhood and family research.
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
NAEYC is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization.
- National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a service of the Child Care Bureau, Office of Family Assistance, is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information.
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSW)
The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.
- National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCDEL)
Research at the National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL), focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social and emotional development of children, from birth through age eight. They have the following goals:1) Determine the state of the nation and conduct research on critical issues in early childhood practices, 2) Develop partnerships with diverse constituencies, 3) Synthesize knowledge and recommend future directions, and 4) Translate research into practice and disseminate information to diverse audiences.
- National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (nectac)
This center supports the implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Our mission is to strengthen service systems to ensure that children with disabilities (birth through five) and their families receive and benefit from high quality, culturally appropriate, and family-centered supports and services.
- The National Governors Association (NGA)
NGA is the collective voice of the nation's governors and one of District of Columbia’s most respected public policy organizations. The NGA Center for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and the environment.
- National Head Start Training and Technical Assistance Resource Center (NRC)
This center supports the Head Start Bureau (HSB) in: (1) identifying emerging trends, priority items, and other project issues; (2) gathering information and coordinating activities to further promote.
- National Institute on Early Education Research (NIEER)
The National Institute for Early Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research. The goal of NIEER is to produce and communicate the knowledge base required to ensure that every American child can receive a good education at ages three and four. The Institute seeks to provide policy makers with timely information addressing the practical problems they face. The Institute offers independent research-based advice and technical assistance to four primary groups: policy makers, journalists, researchers, and educators.
- National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality Home (NICHQ)
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an action-oriented organization dedicated solely to improving the quality of health care provided to children. Founded in 1999, NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what can be in health care for all children. A national organization with its home office in Cambridge, NICHQ also works with staff and faculty across the country.
- National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (NSCDC)
The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (NSCDC) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, early childhood development, pediatrics, and economics.
- Smart Start
Smart Start is a public-private initiative that provides early education funding to all of the state's 100 counties in North Carolina. Smart Start has garnered much national recognition and is considered a model for comprehensive early childhood education initiatives. In 2001, the NCPC established a National Technical Assistance Center to assist other states with the development of an early education initiative.
- Ounce of Prevention
The Ounce of Prevention Fund is dedicated to ensuring that, beginning at birth, children in low-income families can overcome the challenges of poverty and enter kindergarten fully prepared to achieve. We believe it far more cost-effective, and caring, to help at risk children and their parents build healthy foundations than to treat problems later in life.
- The Promising Practices Network (PPN)
The PPN Web site highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.
- Project THRIVE
Project THRIVE is a public policy analysis and education initiative at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University. Project THRIVE has been identified by the Maternal Child Health Bureau to provide to promote healthy child development and to provide policy support to the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) initiatives funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
- State Early Childhood Policy and Technical Assistance Network (SECPTAN)
SECPTAN knows the challenges that governors, legislators, agency heads, and their staff face in developing public policies: Balancing competing demands for finite resources. Reflecting societal values amid diverse political pressures. Developing sound policies without accessible, credible sources of information, particularly on early childhood issues.
- State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
The purpose of the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Initiative is to support states to plan, develop and implement collaborations and partnerships to support families and communities in their development of children who are healthy and ready to learn at school entry. In 2003, 48 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Republic of Palau were awarded grants to develop Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems-building plans. Grantees are now in the process of completing plans and beginning implementation activities.
- Zero To Three
Zero To Three's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. We are a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization that advances our mission by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.
