Worthy Wage Action Packet 2002 (PDF)
This Action Packet is designed to offer practical ideas and inspire your own creativity as you take action for better early childhood jobs in the community where you live and work. It also gives ideas on how to get parents involved in similar activities.

The CARES Initiative in California: Pursuing Public Policy to Build a Skilled and Stable Child Care Workforce, 1997-2000. (PDF)
This report details the remarkable story of California CARES (Compensation and Retention Encourage Stability), an initiative aimed at building a Child Development Corps of well-trained child care center teachers, administrators and family child care providers, who would receive stipends to reward their education, commitment to staying in the field, and ongoing professional development.

Who Cares? Child Care Teachers and the Quality of Care in America (1990) (PDF)
This original study, conducted in 1988, profiled the demographic characteristics, professional preparation, quality, turnover, pay and working conditions of center-based child care workers in the United Sates. Limited print copies available.

The National Child Care Staffing Study – Revisited Four Years in the Life of Center-Based Child Care (1993) (PDF).
In 1992, CCW returned to the original staffing study sites to assess changes in wages, benefits and turnover. Through interviews with 225 center directors across the nation, this follow-up study found meager improvement in teaching staff wages, identified in the original findings as the most important predictor of quality child care.

Worthy Work, Unlivable Wages: The National Child Care Staffing Study, 1988-1997 (1998) (PDF).
In 1997, nine years after the original National Child Care Staffing Study, CCW interviewed directors at the centers still in operation to assess changes in wages, benefits and turnover; whether increases in public investment for child care have benefited the child care workforce; and the extent to which former welfare recipients are employed in center-based child care.

Making Work Pay in the Child Care Industry: Promising Practices for Improving Compensation by Dan Bellm, Alice Burton, Renee Shukla, & Marcy Whitebook.
This 1997 publication, analyzes structural and social barriers to investing in decent-paying child care jobs; profiles a wide range of federal, state and local initiatives to increase child care compensation; and outlines a recommended agenda for further action by states and communities. Limited print copies available.

Price $10.00.

NAEYC Accreditation as a Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality by Marcy Whitebook, Laura Sakai, & Carollee Howes.
In recent years millions of public and private dollars have been directed toward helping centers become accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). This study focuses on the three communities in Alameda County, California over a two-year period (1994-1996). It examines the extent to which centers seeking and achieving NAEYC accreditation improve in quality, assesses the level of quality achieved by NAEYC accreditation centers, and explores the extent to which NAEYC accreditation contributes to a skilled and stable early care and education workforce.

Salary Improvements in Head Start: Lessons for the Early Care and Education Field by Marcy Whitebook.
The 1990 Head Start Expansion and Quality Improvement Act recognized staff compensation as a key element in assuring better-quality Head Start services. Since the passage of the Act and its reauthorization in 1994, nearly $500 million has been allocated to increase salaries for approximately 100,000 Head Start personnel. Using quantitative data and interviews with Head Start administrators and teachers, this report evaluates the salary improvement initiative and identifies features of the process – and of the structure of Head Start agencies – that facilitated or hindered it.

Limited print copies available.

Breaking the Link: A National Forum on Child Care Compensation (PDF) by Dan Bellm.
A keystone of any revamped child care system will have to be an ability to “break the link” between what parents pay for child care (often too much) and what child care providers earn (almost always too little). This report identifies successful initiatives to raise child care salaries; explores strategies for challenging social attitudes, developing innovative funding and financing options, and building coalitions of parents, teachers, providers, business and labor leaders committed to improving child care jobs and services.

Early Childhood Mentoring Programs: A Survey of Community Initiatives (1996, updated 1999).
This report is the result of an information-gathering process among mentoring programs in the United States. Nineteen programs are profiled in detail, representing a variety of center-based and family child care program models.

Limited print copies available.