Projects listed here have been successfully completed by NCCP. Although they are no longer active projects, we archive them for future reference and organizational history.
The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Youth Transitioning from Foster Care
The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Youth Transitioning from Foster Care outlines the unique health needs of young people in and aging out of foster care; describes the coverage former foster youth are entitled to under the ACA, the restrictions states have applied, and reasons for opposition; and makes recommendations to legislators, state policymakers, and advocates for removing barriers to access.
Examining the Impact of HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration on Children in Public Housing
NCCP evaluates the impact of Rental Assistance Demonstration on the well-being of low-income children living in public housing in California and how the effects might vary by the characteristics of RAD sites (e.g., urban versus rural).
Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Scholars’ Network
The project examines how policy changes (increases in family income eligibility, increases in provider payment rates, and unionization of home-based providers) affect continuity of child care subsidy receipt; how such policy changes affect stability in child care arrangements; and how such policy changes affect families with a history of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) receipt.
Improving the Odds for Adolescents
Improving the Odds for Adolescents is a two-year project to improve health outcomes for adolescents – with a special focus on disadvantaged youth – through the strengthening of state policies, including fiscal strategies.
Interdisciplinary Research Leaders
Interdisciplinary Research Leaders brings together teams comprised of two researchers and one community leader, helping them develop advanced leadership skills and a clear focus on health and equity that will enable them to break down silos, address health disparities, and build fundamentally healthier communities.
Making Work Supports Work
Making Work Supports Work is a collaborative project in which NCCP works with state and national partners to help policymakers improve supports for low-wage workers and their families. The goal is to promote a work support system that enables full-time workers to make ends meet and ensures that earning more always improves a family’s financial bottom line.
New Jersey Parenting Project
The NCCP policy brief, Protecting Workers, Nurturing Families: Building an Inclusive Family Leave Insurance Program, presents findings and recommendations from the first in-depth look at the experiences of low-income workers with New Jersey’s paid family leave policy. New Jersey’s Family Leave Insurance program, introduced in 2009, gives workers six weeks of paid time off per year to bond with a new child or care for a sick family member. The program is funded through an employee payroll tax and benefits are paid at two-thirds of the worker’s average wage, up to a maximum weekly benefit of $615 in 2016.
NYC Continuous Quality Improvement for Preschool Programs
This project is developing and testing a new continuous quality improvement (CQI) model in NYC preschool programs serving low-income families. The model is designed to build the capacity of early care and education programs to engage in ongoing efforts to strengthen program quality.
NYC Partners for Preschool Quality
This project is developing and testing a new continuous quality improvement (CQI) model in NYC preschool programs serving low-income families. The model is designed to build the capacity of early care and education programs to engage in ongoing efforts to strengthen program quality.
NYC Preschool Education Leaders’ Support of High Quality Teaching
High quality preschool can play a key role in helping low-income children enter kindergarten with foundational skills that will help them succeed. A critical support to quality preschool is an on-site education leader (e.g., the education director or principal) who can promote excellent teaching. In partnership with Bank Street College, this project investigates factors that support or hinder teachers’ use of effective practices in New York City preschool programs.
Project Thrive
Project Thrive is a public policy analysis and education initiative to promote healthy child development and provide policy support to the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) initiatives funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Research Connections
Research Connections promotes high-quality research and its use in policymaking by providing online access to thousands of journal articles, research reviews, government reports, and policy briefs. Research Connections is the central access point for products developed by federally funded early care and education research workgroups.
Resilience in Low-Income Families
This research project seeks to determine what can be learned from low-income parents and to use those findings to promote policies designed to build resiliency and help lift more families out of poverty. The project includes a review of research on poor and low-income families to define parent resilience and analysis of several national longitudinal surveys to identify indicators of family strength and associated positive child outcomes. The findings will be used to develop a policy brief with policy/practice recommendations for promoting resiliency in low-income parents.
Social Inclusion and Respect for Diversity
Promoting Social Inclusions and Respect for Diversity is a two-year action research study of the formation of regional coalitions of researchers, policymakers, practitioners, evaluators, advocates, and funders to promote social inclusion and respect for diversity (SI & RD) in early childhood education in the U.S.
Strategies for Early Learning
Strategies for Early Learning promotes the dissemination of the growing knowledge base about the most effective ways to ensure that young children enter school with the necessary skills to be successful.
UCR: California Case Study
Unclaimed Children Revisited: California Case Study is a series of county-specific case studies, a statewide analysis, and a set of fiscal analyses of effective policy-linked strategies to improve children’s mental health in the state of California.
Unclaimed Children Revisited
Unclaimed Children Revisited is a multi-pronged project that is generating new knowledge about policies across the 50 states that promote or inhibit the delivery of high-quality mental health services to children, youth, and families in need.
Youth, Homelessness, and Education
The Youth, Homelessness, and Education project is a pilot project focusing on youth (ages 12 to 17) who have been homeless, run away, or both. The project uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine how youth experiences of having been homeless or having run away influence the likelihood of graduating from high school.