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Noon - 1:15 pm | All posters are in the Atrium. For the Poster Symposium, at 12:45 pm, those who wish to discuss posters 318-01 through 318-03 will move to the Curtis A Room.

Poster Session 7

POSTER SYMPOSIUM: Mothers, Employment, and Child Care: Related Concerns. POSTER TOPICS: Community and Families; Cross-cultural Issues; Race/Ethnicity and Families; Immigration and Migration; International Families; Couple Therapy Issues
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Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers

A new policy paper from Zero to Three, Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers, examines how staffed family child care (FCC) networks are uniquely positioned to improve the quality of care that infants and toddlers receive in FCC settings.  It lists effective practices and shares examples of successful staffed FCC networks.  This paper offers guidance for how states can maximize partnerships to integrate staffed FCC networks in early childhood systems.  It concludes with action steps and state policy recommendations for implementing a staffed FCC network.

Mathematica Policy Research
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Free webinar available from Mathematica Policy Research

on assessing education programs - Thursday, November 10
November 08, 2011

As states move ahead in enhancing systems of care for young children, assessing and improving the quality of early care and education programs at all levels are becoming increasingly important.

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Work and Family Researchers Network - Call for papers for inaugural conference

Interdisciplinary Conversations: June 14-16, 2012, Philadelphia, PA
June 21, 2011

The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) invites submissions of papers, posters, and symposia proposals.

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Provider-Parent Partnerships

This site is devoted to child care providers joining with parents to support children's well-being. It includes materials and links for childcare providers to build positive relationships with parents along with materials for providers and materials to be distributed to parents. Categories of materials are parent-provider relationships, supporting parents, child growth and development, guidance and discipline, children and learning, family-child relationships, health and safety, and making connections. Several pieces focus on talking to parents or providers about difficult topics..