RESEARCH


Research and data can be powerful tools in your advocacy toolbox. While stories move our hearts, statistics move policy. We encourage you to use the data on this website in your grant proposals and advocacy efforts. In this section of the website you will find some additional research and advocacy tools the Boston EQUIP staff have produced.

Massachusetts Early Care and Education State Budget FY01-FY08


Tracking the Massachusetts early care and education line items since FY01, this Excel spreadsheet provides a easy reference sheet to track changes throughout the budget process and across years.

Family Child Care Policy Briefs

This series of policy briefs describes the value of systems and their role in supporting the quality and business aspects of family child care providers. They were created with the support of the Child Welfare League of America.

  • The Value of Family Child Care Systems
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  • Financial Tools for Family Child Care Microenterprises
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  • Promoting School Readiness in Family Child Care Using a System of Quality Measurement
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    Quality Improvement Plans

    Associated Early Care and Education, received a grant from The F.B. Heron Foundation to replicate the Boston EQUIP model in another local community, and integrate it with efforts to measure quality at the program and child levels. Thus far Associated has worked with Revere and Medford to help them develop their own community quality benchmarks. These are the quality improvement plans from those projects.

    Revere Council for Families and Children Quality Improvement Plan 2005

    Medford Family Resource Coalition Quality Improvement Plan

    Other Research and Advocacy tools

    Assessing Research Quality from the Child Care and Early Education Research Connections

    Using Data for Advocacy in Facts in Action. July 2004


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