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Multiple Futures and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships
Exploring the Child Care Crisis: Multiple Futures and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships explores the variable social dynamics and business models of our present and ongoing child care crisis through specific
Capturing an Experience
US Children's Bureau Webinar on Our Tomorrows and Sensemaker
The CPPR Our Tomorrows team is partnering with organizations around the country to transform the lives of families. What sets this work apart? The ability to capture a whole experience and tap into a family's real-time needs.
Examining the Present and Future of Child Care in Kansas
CPPR explores solutions to longstanding challenges within the social service sector, such as the cost of child care, high staff turnover, and low wages.
Using data as a collaborative tool for the child care crisis in Kansas
CPPR collaborated with the Institute for Policy and Social Research and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to create the Child Care Desert Map to show the disparity between child care need and access.
The McNair Scholar experience at CPPR
McNair Scholar Alexis Tibbits gains field experience with CPPR’s Applied Research Team
The Impact of Child Care Provider Services
CPPR was happy to be a partner in Child Care Aware of America’s Provider Appreciation Day campaign for 2022.
FREE Social-Emotional Development Screening Available in Kansas
CPPR’s Erica Figueroa played a vital role in bringing the free Statewide Kansas Ages and Stages Questionnaire® (ASQ) Online subscription to providers in Kansas. ASQ Online offers providers an online subscription free of charge and reduced price on screening kits.
Survey: Parents feel more social support than non-parents
By: Jessica Sprague-Jones, Ph.D.
Published by: Capita
CPPR’s Child Care Planning Assessment Tool receives $25,000 Grand Prize
The University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research was awarded the $25,000 grand prize for their Child Care Planning Assessment Tool.
Sunflower Summer Case Study
Partner Acceleration in Action: Sunflower Summer
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The Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR) employs change makers who translate ideas into action.