Child Care Resources

Find out what research says about the NEW Quality Rating and Improvement System for child care.

• Better Beginnings: Enhancing Participation Key Findings from other states—What Works
• Executive Summary
• Full Report
• Technical Appendices

• Final report by Ariel Strategic Communications of series of Provider Focus groups to determine emotional and rational motivators of participation in Better Beginnings.

Find out what the UAMS/Department of Family and Preventive Medicine found in their evaluation and survey of child care programs/directors and family child care providers about Better Beginnings.  These evaluative reports were  completed in May and June of 2011 and include the following:

• Child Care Provider Survey Report Executive Summary
• Child Care Provider Survey Report/Full Report
• Child Care Provider Technical Appendices
• Arkansas Directors Qualitative Survey Report Executive Summary
• Arkansas Directors Qualitative Survey Report/Full Report