Policy Brief - Infant Care in Nebraska: Characteristics of Providers, Quality of Care, and Parent Perceptions

Authors

Kathy Thornburg, University of MissouriFollow
Helen Raikes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Brian Wilcox, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Carolyn P. Edwards, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Julia C. Torquati, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Susan Hegland, Iowa State University
Carla Peterson, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Jean Ann Summers, University of KansasFollow
Jane Atwater, University of Kansas

ORCID IDs

Julia C. Torquati

Date of this Version

2005

Comments

Published in Midwest Child Care Research Consortium • Center on Children, Families, and the Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

In 2001, university researchers and state program partners in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska initiated the Midwest Child Care Research Consortium. A random sample of 2,022 child care providers from all four states participated in the study representing licensed infant, toddler, and preschool centers and including Head Start and Early Head Start programs, license-exempt centers, and licensed and unlicensed family child care homes. In Nebraska, 508 providers participated in telephone interviews and 85 of those programs were randomly selected for an observational quality assessment. This report summarizes the survey responses of 236 Nebraska professionals providing care for infants and toddlers, observations of care in infant-toddler center based programs and family child care homes, and 478 surveys of parents of infants (393 in center-based care, and 167 in family child care homes).