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The Impact Of Child Care Center Partnerships with Head Start Agencies on Parents' Satisfaction with Child Care and Early Education

Kim, Jung-Eun
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333497812

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Social Welfare.
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine whether the public-private partnership influences the quality of programming at client level by applying the partnership example in early childhood development as seen in the child care center’s partnership with Head Start agency. Specific aims are: 1) to examine how a Head Start partnership influences parent satisfaction with child care and education activities; 2) to examine how organizational investments influence parent satisfaction, and 3) to examine what characteristics of the Head Start partnership influence parent satisfaction. Key theories in an effort to understand the public-private partnerships in social services delivery have two main viewpoints: 1) economic perspectives to see the partnership as contracting and economic efficiency-based relationships, and 2) organizational and institutional perspective to explain the dynamic collaborative processes of the partnership. The data was drawn from Partnership Impact Research Project, 2001-2004, quantitative data gathered from child care directors, teachers, and parents in Ohio. This data was cleaned as cross-sectional basis and finalized 1475 parents of 91 child care centers as well as 745 parents of 50 partnering centers. All research questions was examined through the use of hierarchical linear modeling. This study revealed that the child care center - Head Start agency partnership has a positive impact on satisfaction with child care and education for single parents, but a negative impact for parents in general. Teachers’ benefits and their satisfaction with the center were found to be significant predictors of parent satisfaction, but they were not supported as organizational benefits by the partnerships. Among partnering centers, partnership maturity is a significant predictor of higher parent satisfaction. Thus, the study findings supported that higher parent satisfaction is more likely to depend on how the partnership has been characterized, rather than whether the centers have a partnership itself. This study contributes new empirical knowledge through more direct evaluation of partnership factors and quality programs at the client level. These empirical findings imply that the partnership between a child care center and a Head Start agency needs to further develop strategies to support better designed partnerships that effectively promote quality programs.
Mark Joseph, PhD (Committee Chair)
Claudia Coulton, PhD (Committee Member)
David Crampton, PhD (Committee Member)
Jeffrey Brudney, PhD (Committee Member)
212 p.
Early Childhood Education; Social Work
child care center; early education; parent satisfaction; partnership; multilevel modeling

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  • Kim, J.-E. (2012). The Impact Of Child Care Center Partnerships with Head Start Agencies on Parents' Satisfaction with Child Care and Early Education [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333497812

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kim, Jung-Eun. The Impact Of Child Care Center Partnerships with Head Start Agencies on Parents' Satisfaction with Child Care and Early Education. 2012. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333497812.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kim, Jung-Eun. "The Impact Of Child Care Center Partnerships with Head Start Agencies on Parents' Satisfaction with Child Care and Early Education." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333497812

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