Heflin, C. and T. Morrissey. "Patterns of Earnings and Employment by Worker Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Using State Administrative Data: Results from a Sample of Workers Connected to Public Assistance Programs." Race and Social Problems, vol. 15, July 2022, pp. 166-186.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Equity-Focused Policy Research grant program funded action-oriented research to build on strategies to increase equitable access to supports for families with young children, including income supports, nutrition supports, and early care and education. Following is a description of the work that has been accomplished in these three areas.
Income supports
Families with low income often do not have access to the basic necessities and resources to foster the nurturing experiences and stimulating environments that young children need to thrive. Income supports may reduce poverty in households with young children, provide critical resources to help families support children’s development, diminish families’ stress levels, and thereby advance health equity. This grant funded research on income supports for low-income families with young children, including tax credits and transfer programs, to inform policymaking and encourage more equitable access to these supports.
Early care and education
Increasing access to early care and education (ECE) may reduce poverty in households with young children by supporting parental employment; provide critical resources to help families support children’s development; diminish families’ stress levels; and thereby advance health equity. This grant sought to fund research that highlighted policy- and practice-related reasons for disparities in access to ECE, and which identified current policy or programmatic solutions or needed changes that would promote equity.
Nutrition supports
A key contributor to children’s healthy development is sufficient access to healthy foods, though research demonstrates that children from low-income households and racial and ethnic minority children experience nutritional disparities. This grant funded research on federal nutrition support programs that serve low-income families with young children, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
Cross-cutting policy areas
This grant funded a body of research that illuminates strategies and policies that ensure families’ equitable access to key resources for supporting their children’s healthy development. The cross-cutting grants fund research that cut across policy domains, revealing the way that ECE access, income supports, and nutrition supports interact and potentially reinforce one another to promote families’ well being.
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Syracuse University
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Heflin, C., H. Kim, and T. Morrissey. "Expansions in the U.S. Child Care and Development Block Grant Improved Program Stability." Lerner Center for Public Health Promotin Health Research Briefs Series.
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
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Ong, P., and C. Pech. "Spatial-Transportation Mismatch and Early Childhood Education and Care." UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, September 2021.
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University of Chicago
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Alexander, D., J. Henly, and M. Stoll. "Unintended Equity Impacts of a Key 2017 Policy Change License-Exempt Home Child Care." Policy research brief. Illinois Action for Children, 2022.
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Blumenthal, A., K. Gehring, J. Henly, and D. Alexander. "Building Equity Among License-Exempt Child Care Providers in Cook County with the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)." Poster. EC-REACH Early Childhood Research Conference, 2024.
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Henly, J. "Policy Measures to Increase Child Care Stability for Low-Income Families: Equity Impacts of CCDBG Reform." Presentation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021.
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Henly, J., and D. Alexander. "Policy Reform to Advance Equity in Illinois Child Care Subsidy Program." The University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, 2022.
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Henly, J., K. Gehring, J. Lewittes, F. Shokry, and L. Lara. "COVID-19 Relief to the Child Care Industry: Perspectives from Child Care Providers Seeking Support." Presentation to the Association for Public Policy & Management, 2022.
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Hong, Y.S., J. Henly, D. Alexander, M. Stoll, and L. Lara. "Did Illinois' Response to 2014 CCDBG ReauthorizationIncrease Equity and Child Care Stability." Presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting, 2021.
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University of Illinois Chicago
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Brown-Hollie, J., S. Coba-Rodriguez, and J. Dohrmann. "Understanding Preschool Families' Exclusionary Experiences." Presentation. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2023.
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