Head Start CARES (Head Start Classroom-based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion)

Description:

The Head Start CARES project is a large-scale group randomized trial of three evidence-based social emotional program enhancements within Head Start classrooms. The project includes an impact and implementation study of the following enhancements: Incredible Years Classroom Management program, Preschool PATHS, and an adaptation of Tools of the Mind. Head Start CARES involves 17 Head Start grantees, 104 centers, 307 classrooms, 608 teachers and teaching assistants, and 3,927 three and four year old children. Data collection began in the spring of 2009, and kindergarten follow up data collection was completed in the spring of 2012. Impact results were published in 2014.

Resource Type:

Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects

Principal Investigator(s):

Morris Pamela A.

Grantee(s)/Contrator(s):

MDRC

Funder(s):

United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation

Contact(s):

Rivera Ann C.

Date Issued:

2007

Source:

MDRC

Note:

For more information on this project, visit https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/head-start-cares-head-start-classroom-based-approaches-and-resources-for

Topics:

6. Programs, Interventions & Curricula > 6.2. Interventions/Curricula > 6.2.7. Social & Emotional

6. Programs, Interventions & Curricula > 6.1. Programs > 6.1.3. Early Head Start/Head Start

Start Date

09/30/2007 - 12:00

End Date

09/29/2015 - 12:00

Project Type

Other

Related resources include summaries, versions, measures (instruments), or other resources in which the current document plays a part. Research products funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation are related to their project records.

Reports & Papers

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections

Head Start CARES (Head Start Classroom-based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion)

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Burnout and teacher–child interactions: The moderating influence of SEL interventions in Head Start classrooms

A first look at the Head Start CARES demonstration: Large-scale implementation of programs to improve children's social-emotional competence

Understanding and using the Head Start CARES Data: An introductory webinar [PowerPoint]

Executive summary: A first look at the Head Start CARES demonstration: Large-scale implementation of programs to improve children's social-emotional competence

Coaching as a key component in teachers' professional development: Improving classroom practices in Head Start settings

Impacts of social-emotional curricula on three-year-olds: Exploratory findings from the Head Start CARES demonstration

Executive summary: Impact findings from the Head Start CARES demonstration: National evaluation of three approaches to improving preschoolers' social and emotional competence

Impact findings from the Head Start CARES demonstration: National evaluation of three approaches to improving preschoolers' social and emotional competence

Understanding and using the Head Start CARES data: An introductory webinar

Executive summary: Impacts of social-emotional curricula on three-year-olds: Exploratory findings from the Head Start CARES demonstration

Impact findings from the Head Start CARES demonstration: National evaluation of three approaches to improving preschoolers' social and emotional competence

Head Start CARES for migrant and seasonal families: Adapting a preschool social-emotional curriculum [Executive summary]

Head Start CARES for migrant and seasonal families: Adapting a preschool social-emotional curriculum

Measuring preschool teachers' social-emotional practices: A comparison of two measures

A first look at the Head Start CARES demonstration: Large-scale implementation of programs to improve children's social-emotional competence

Impacts of social-emotional curricula on three-year-olds: Exploratory findings from the Head Start CARES demonstration

Head Start CARES for migrant and seasonal families: Adapting a preschool social-emotional curriculum

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Head Start CARES Demonstration: National Evaluation of Three Approaches to Improving Preschoolers' Social and Emotional Competence, 2009-2015

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