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.
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.
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).
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.
DeBaryshe, B., J. Azuma, K.T. Gauci, and I.R. Stern. "Equitable Access to Childcare: Mapping as a Tool for Planning and Policy." Symposium presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting, virtual, 2021.
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DeBaryshe, B., J. Azuma, and I. Stern. "Equitable Access to ECE: Mapping as a Tool for Planning and Policy." Presentation at the Early Childhood Action Strategy All-Teams Meeting, Honolulu, 2021.
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DeBaryshe, B., J. Azuma, I. Stern, and K. Gauci. "Mapping Multiple Dimensions of ECE Access: Innovative Techniques to Inform Policy and Decision-Making." Workshop presented at the Hawai'i DXP Annual Data Summit, Honolulu, 2021.
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DeBaryshe, B., I.R. Stern, and J. Azuma. "Measuring Access to Early Care and Education: Family-Focused Indexes." White paper. Center on the Family, University of Hawai'i, 2022.
DeBaryshe, B. "What's In Your Neighborhood? Mapping Equitable Access to Early Childhood Education and Care." Presentation at the 2024 UH M?noa Day at the State Capitol, Honolulu, Hi, February 2024.
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DeBaryshe, B., I. Stern, M. Nguyen, J. Azuma, and Q. Chen. "Hawaii's Critical Shortage of Infant-Toddler Care." 2023.
DeBaryshe, B., I. Stern, J. Azuma, M. Nguyen, and Q. Chen. "What's in Your Neighborhood? Community Profiles of Access to Early Education and Care." 2023.
Handout accompanied presentation at the 2023 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Thomson, D., L.A. Gennetian, Y. Chen, H. Barnett, M. Carter, and S. Deambrosi. "State Policy and Practice Related to Earned Income Tax Credits May Affect Receipt among Hispanic Families with Children." Washington, DC: Child Trends, November 2020.
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Chen, Y., D. Thomson, and L. Gennetian. "EITC Receipt Among Hispanic Families: The Role of State EITC Policies and Practices." Presentation at the virtual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Fall Conference, November 2020.
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Thomson, D., Y. Chen, and L. Gennetian. "Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Latino and Low-Income Households With Children Were Less Likely to Receive Unemployment Benefits." Washington, DC: Child Trends, December 2021.