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August, 2004
 Health and
Disabilities Services in Early Head Start:
Are Families Getting Needed Health Care Services?
Prepared by:
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ Under Contract
DHHS-105-95-1936
Authors:
Ellen Eliason Kisker, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Carole
Kuhns, Virginia Tech
In 1995, a new federal initiative
aimed at enhancing the development of infants and toddlers began
with 68 grantees. This program, named Early Head Start by the
Secretary's Advisory Committee that created it, has grown into a
national initiative with more than 700 grantees serving more than
55,000 families around the country. Seventeen of the initial
program grantees participated in a national evaluation and local
research studies that documented the implementation process and
assessed program impacts and outcomes (Administration for Children
and Families [ACF] 2002a and 2002b). These 17 research programs,
which resemble all Early Head Start programs funded in 1995 and
1996, were the first to design and implement programs to meet the
revised Head Start Program Performance Standards (U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services [DHHS] 1996).
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