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Explore this slide deck with information about the REFS Study, highlighting results from this multi-site, multimethod study exploring judges’ reasonable efforts findings.

Explore this infographic that describes key findings and takeaways from the REFS Study relating to judges’ findings whether the child welfare agency made reasonable efforts to prevent removal and reasonable efforts to achieve permanency.

Explore this infographic that describes the information available to judges as they make findings whether the child welfare agency made reasonable efforts to prevent removal of children from their homes and reasonable efforts to achieve permanency.

This infographic that examines what factors are related to judges’ findings on reasonable efforts to prevent removal and reasonable efforts to achieve permanency.

Explore the Reasonable Efforts Findings Study (REFS) that looks at what factors are associated with judges’ reasonable efforts decisions and how those decisions relate to case outcomes for children, such as whether they are reunified with their parents or how fast they find another permanent home.

This brief draws from data collected in the 2019 NSECE Center-based Provider Survey. In the NSECE, a center-based provider delivers CCEE services to children aged five and under, not yet in kindergarten, at a single location. This brief describes how enrollment and vacancies at center-based child care and early education (CCEE) programs can be estimated using data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE).

This brief provides guidance for evaluators on designing and reporting high quality Quasi-Experimental Design studies (QEDs) aligned with the Clearinghouse’s Handbook of Standards and Procedures, Version 2.0.

These analyses examine whether and how EHS programs changed from 2018 to 2022. 

Explore the factors affecting the sustainability of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships between 2016 and 2022.

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