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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"child care providers"”.
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Sustaining family child care providers' psychosocial wellness
… examined the psychosocial wellness of Family Child Care Providers (FCCPs) using a mixed methods approach.The two main goals of this study were to explore psychosocial influences upon FCC workforce participation and psychosocial influences upon professional development participation. Using an …
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Nutritional best-practices among child care providers in Washington State
… knowledge and concerns around the Let’s Move! Child Care nutritional best-practices among child care providers in Washington. Methods: Data was collected from an online professional training module for child care providers. We examined providers’ knowledge of and behaviors they are willing to …
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Culture and Identity: A Portraiture-Based Study of Oromo Family Child Care Providers
… study explores the experiences of Oromo family child care providers within Washington State’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) - Early Achievers. I conducted a portraiture-based study using qualitative methods to investigate how Oromo family child care providers narrate their stories …
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Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices of Child Care Providers Relative to the Factors that Cause Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity is a national epidemic. Many factors contribute to the rise in childhood obesity such as poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and poor role models. Child care providers can be postive role models and educators for children. The Virginia Cooperative Extension is concerned about the …
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Head Start and child care providers' feeding practices: a potential avenue for obesity prevention in young children
… in 2012 regarding benchmarks for nutrition in child care to establish healthful eating behaviors in early childhood and prevent obesity in young children. Further, recent publications by the Institute of Medicine and national organizations have recommended specific feeding practices for child …
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A comparison of two training models for the enhancement of quality of care for family child care providers
Thirty-six family child care providers were divided into matched pairs, then randomly assigned to two treatment groups; catalyst and self-study. The purpose was to investigate how training affects quality of child care and to determine what provider characteristics interact with self-paced learning …
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Access to Quality Child Care for Preschool Children With Disabilities: An Examination of Efforts by Illinois Head Start Programs in the Context of Welfare Reform
… in improving access to quality and inclusive child care for preschool-aged children with disabilities and their families. Using survey questionnaires and telephone interviews, 81 Head Start Disability Service Coordinators (DSCs) from the state of Illinois responded to a series of questions …
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Child Care Supply and Demand: Parental Choice at the Area and Family Levels
"To better understand the child care options available to families in East Central Illinois, this study assessed a new measure of parental choice of child care using---supply-demand congruence (SDC)---which compared the number of child care slots requested by parents with the number of vacant slots …
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Moving to the Level of Representation to Explain Variations in Family Child Care Provider Sensitivity and the Effectiveness of Child-Related Training
<p>Many young children in the United States spend a substantial amount of time in the care of family child care providers. Previous research has found that when providers are sensitive and responsive to children's needs, children are more likely to develop secure attachment relationships with their …
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Family child care physical activity ecology: A qualitative GIS study
… physical activity, and those attending family child care settings spend nine minutes or less per hour of care in physical activity compared to the recommended 15 minutes per hour of care. Family child care providers (FCCPs) and settings play a fundamental role in shaping preschool children’s …
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The Influence of Gender Bias on Children in Childcare Settings
<p>To date, Early Childhood Education (ECE) courses and curriculum are primarily focused on a being gender neutral and teaching non-traditional gender practices in childcare settings. Further, many child care providers, specifically ECE teachers, are women. This paper describes how many teachers in …
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The social construction of diapers as a consumer issue: an application of feminist sociological theory
… interviews were conducted with six mothers of children in diapers and with three institutional users of diapers: a home care provider, child care center administrator, and hospital nursery administrator. In addition, documents produced by various institutions (diaper laundering services, diaper …
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The family child care trilemma and community development : seeking a balancing strategy
This thesis examines promotion of licensed family child care businesses as a strategy for community development. Accessing high quality, affordable child care is a vital need in low income communities. Often times, however, the care available is of low educational value, prohibitively expensive, or …
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A Survey of the Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites and Associated Risk Factors in Children in a Rural City of the Dominican Republic
… of GI protozoan and helminth parasites from children at the Rural Clinic of Veron during 2008. Participants provided a fecal sample that was examined microscopically for protozoan and helminth parasites using the fecal flotation technique to concentrate and isolate helminth ova and protozoan …
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The journey to Paths to Quality : a case study of two rural Indiana public preschools
… 1990s. At its inception, PTQ was used only by child care providers, not by public schools. Now, the rating system has been adapted to allow public schools to participate (Elicker, Ruprecht, Langill, Lewsader, Anderson, & Brizzi, 2013). The PTQ system is now available to all counties in Indiana. …
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Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
… dramatically increased need and demand for child care, escalating the citys child care crisis. As thousands of poor single mothers were pushed into workfare jobs and the lower reaches of the labour market, the question of Who will care for their children? was thrust to the forefront of New …
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Child Care Decision Making Among Parents of Young Children: A Constructivist Inquiry
In order to understand parents' child care decision making for young children (under 6), this interpretive research interviewed 24 parents and 7 child care professionals from a mid-sized region in Virginia. Using a constructivist research design, the research question explored how parents make …
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The Effect of Meal Preparation Time on Food Expenditure and Nutritional Quality of Menus in Family Child-Care Homes in King County, Washington
<bold>Background:</bold> A full time child-care program is expected to provide at least one-half to two-thirds of a child's daily nutrient requirements. As such, child-care settings have been acknowledged as an important setting for the assurance of children's nutrition and for the prevention of …
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Healthy hearts in family child care: what is the current state of provider health?
Family child care providers (FCCPs) are an important source of child care for close to 1.5 million children under the age of five (Laughlin, 2013). FCCPs provide care to children in their own homes and tend to be a source of care for lower income children. As child care has been identified as a …
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