[Dec-kentucky] Annotated Bibliography of Head Start Research

[Elizabeth McLaren]

Submitted by a KY DEC member. Forwarded on behalf of KYDEC.

 

 

*The following information comes to you courtesy of ACF OPRE News*

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the
Administration for Children and Families is announcing the release of
the 2007 edition of the Annotated Bibliography of Head Start Research. You
can access the Bibliography at
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb2/biblio/. The bibliography is an ongoing
effort to disseminate Head Start and Early Head Start research.

The searchable database includes abstracts of quantitative and qualitative
research from 1965 to 2007, as well as literature reviews
and descriptive studies pertaining to Head Start and Early Head Start.

This edition includes 161 new abstracts, which you can find under the
"What's New" field on the left navigation bar. Abstracts were written
from journal articles, reports, dissertation abstracts, and poster/paper
presentations from the 8th Head Start Research Conference and from the 2007
SRCD Conference.

If you have recently published work that includes a Head Start sample,
please feel free to submit the citation to biblio at xtria.com.

Alternatively, you can mail a copy of the document to the address below
and it will be considered for the 2008 edition of the Annotated
Bibliography. Project staff will contact you if additional information
is necessary.

Head Start Research Library
Xtria, LLC
8521 Leesburg Pike
Suite 400
Vienna, VA 22182 


Recently Released Reports

OPRE recently released an interim report entitled Oral Health Promotion,
Prevention, & Treatment Strategies for Head Start Families: Early
Findings from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation.  This
implementation evaluation of the Head Start Oral Health Initiative
included telephone interviews and the monthly collection of service
data. The interim report describes the early implementation experiences
of the 52 Head Start Oral Heal Initiative (OHI) grantees including
service designs and delivery, as well as
successes and challenges.  For more information, see    
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/eval_oral_health/index.html


Using Work-Oriented Sanctions to Increase TANF Program Participation: This
report documents how some jurisdictions are responding, in their
sanction policies and procedures, to the new requirements imposed under the
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.  It is based on a study conducted by
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. of sanction policies and practices in
eight sites located in seven states.
The report highlights key innovations implemented in the study sites and
summarizes what was learned from the study sites' experiences.  
URL:
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/welfare_employ/sanction_pol/reports/sanction_p
ol/sanction_pol_title.html

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation recently released two
reports conducted under the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ
Demonstration and Evaluation project.  The first entitled, Four
Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Employment:  An Introduction to the
Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-employ Demonstration and Evaluation
describes the origin of the project and the rationale for the
demonstration, explains the study design, and describes the four sites
and characteristics of the participants.  The report can be found at:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opre/welfare_employ/enhanced_hardto/reports
/four_strategies/four_strategies_title.html.

The second, Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners: Early Impacts from a
Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities
(CEO), Prisoner Reentry Program summarizes the early results from one of
the four sites from the HtE project that tested a transitional
employment model for ex-prisoners.  The report found that one year after
enrolling in the study participants who entered CEO shortly after
release from incarceration were significantly less likely to have their
parole revoked, to be convicted of a felony, and to be reincarcerated.  CEO
also generated a large, but short-lived increase in employment.  The
report can be found at:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opre/welfare_employ/enhanced_hardto/reports
/transitional_jobs/trans_jobs_title.html.

 

 

Elizabeth McLaren, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor

Email: e.mclaren at moreheadstate.edu

Phone: 606-783-2537

Fax: 606-783-5044

Morehead State University

Curriculum and Instruction

A301F Ginger Hall

Morehead KY 40351

 

 

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