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KMID : 0613620120320040391
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Health Social Welfare Review
2012 Volume.32 No. 4 p.391 ~ p.427
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The Impact of Child Care Center-Head Start Agency Partnership Characteristics on Parents’ Satisfaction with Child Care and Early Education
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Kim Jung-Eun
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Abstract
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The purpose of this paper 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 aim is to examine what characteristics of the Head Start partnership influence parent satisfaction with child care and early education. 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, U.S.A. This data was cleaned as cross-sectional basis and finalized 745 parents of 50 partnering child care centers. The research question was examined through the use of hierarchical linear modeling. This study revealed that partnership maturity is a significant predictor of higher parent satisfaction. The findings of this study support that higher parent satisfaction is more likely to depend on how the partnership has been characterized (process-driven partnership), rather than whether the centers have a partnership itself (financial resource dependent partnership). This study contributes new empirical knowledge throughout more direct evaluation of partnership factors at the organizational level as well as quality of programs at the client level. These empirical findings imply that the partnership between the child care centers and Head Start agencies need to further develop organizational strategies to support client-focused partnerships that effectively promote quality programs
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KEYWORD
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Public-Private Partnership, Child Care and Early Education, Parent Satisfaction, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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