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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2000
Contact: Michael Kharfen, (202) 401-9215
HHS
TO AWARD $10 MILLION FOR FY 2000 CHILD CARE RESEARCH
HHS Secretary Donna
E. Shalala today announced $10 million in discretionary grants and contracts
for child care research. The fiscal year 2000 funding is for research
to develop critically needed information on child care and its effects
on child development and family well-being. This new research will help
develop innovative strategies to meet the needs of low-income families
struggling to afford quality child care for their children.
"Increasing
our knowledge of what child care systems work best and disseminating that
knowledge throughout the country are important steps in improving the
quality of child care," said Secretary Shalala. "Parents across
America desperately need the answers to these fundamental questions about
child care: Can I find it? Can I afford it? Can I trust it?"
The research projects
will be administered by HHS' Administration for Children and Families.
The $10 million will be allocated between individual project areas and
the establishment of a national research collaboration and archive. The
individual project areas will be funded at $4.6 million as a result of
a national competition held earlier this year. Of those funds, $3.2 million
will be awarded for 12 field initiated child care research projects, $1.2
million for four new child care policy research partnerships and $200,000
for five scholarships for doctoral dissertation research.
The HHS Child Care
Bureau will establish a National Child Care Research Collaboration and
Archive to help improve the quality of child care research, make data
more accessible to researchers for analysis, and help key constituencies
make better use of research findings. The 30-month contract to develop
the collaboration and archive will be awarded by Sept. 30, 2000. The bureau
is also funding an interagency collaboration with the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development and other federal partners to support
development of the science and ecology of early development. This partnership
brings together interdisciplinary approaches and multiple partners to
better understand the earliest years of life. In addition, the bureau
will fund a research fellowship through the Society for Research in Child
Development.
"It is our hope
that Congress will again appropriate funds for child care research in
fiscal year 2001, allowing us to continue the valuable studies launched
this year," said Olivia A. Golden, assistant secretary for children
and families. "The goal of this initiative is to identify and encourage
policies that promote quality, flexibility and availability of child care
for low-income families."
With the addition
of new research partnerships, the bureau's Child Care Policy Research
Consortium will involve nearly half of the states. New partnerships include:
Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. Ongoing
partnerships continue in: California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas.
The list of awardees
follows:
Field Initiated Child
Care Research Projects
- Bank Street College of Education, New York City, $276,546 for "Assessing
the Effectiveness of State and Local Quality Initiatives."
- Center for Child Care Workforce, Washington, D.C., $248,932 for "How
Many is Enough? Estimating the Size of the U.S. Child Care Workforce."
- Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., $254,102 for "Child Care Quality
and Consumer Education."
- Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York City, $209,807
for "Employment and Child Care: What Can We Learn from Experimental
Studies that Encourage Low-Income Parents to Work?"
- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., $299,358 for "Barriers
to Child Care Subsidies."
- The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., $208,369 for "Child Care,
Welfare and Families: The Nexus of Policies, Practices, and Systems."
- University of California at Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations,
Berkeley, Calif., $300,000 for "Who Leaves? Who Stays? A Longitudinal
Study of the Child Care Workforce."
- University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children, Chicago, $299,839
for "Child Care Subsidy Use and Self-Sufficiency Pathways of Low-Income
Mothers: A Three-State Study."
- University of Montana Rural Institute on Disabilities, Missoula,
Mont., $237,699 for "Child Care Plus Research Project."
- University of North Carolina Frank Porter Graham Child Development
Center, Chapel Hill, N.C., $299,576 for "Variations in Child Care
and School Success: Longitudinal Follow-up of the Cost, Quality and
Outcomes Study."
- Wellesley (Mass.) College, $300,000 for "Child Care Today: Cost
and Quality of Family Child Care and Infant/Toddler Care."
- Zero to Three,
Washington, D.C., $300,000 for "A Study of Community Strategies
for Enhancing the Quality and Affordability of Infant Toddler Child
Care for Low Income Families."
Child Care Policy
Research Partnerships
- Midwest Child Care Research Partnership, lead partner is the University
of Nebraska, $300,000.
- Minnesota Child Care Research Partnership, lead partner is the Minnesota
- Department of Children, Families & Learning, $300,000.
- "New Partners," lead partner is the University of Southern
Maine, $300,000.
- Wisconsin Child
Care Research Partnership, lead partner is the University of Wisconsin,
$300,000.
Scholarships for
Doctoral Dissertation Research
- The grants for
doctoral dissertation research go to individual Ph.D. candidates at:
Harvard College, $39,900; Rice University, $40,000; University of Arizona,
$40,000; University of North Carolina, $39,919; and the University of
Wisconsin, $37,893.
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