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1. Day Care Evaluation Manual.

Author

Council for Community Services in Metropolitan Chicago, IL.

Abstract

This manual presents instruments for evaluating the program and facilities of day care centers and family day care homes serving nonhandicapped children aged 3-5. Chapter 1 discusses child care evaluation in general and outlines the rationale underlying this evaluation system (including the principle that day care evaluation should assess program input rather than output). Subsequent chapters include descriptions of: (1) development, field testing, and revision of both the evaluation forms and the supportive information provided in the manual; and (2) administering evaluation and scoring forms, and summarizing data. An appendix, comprising four fifths of the document, contains all 27 forms used in the evaluation system. These include: (1) identification forms, which summarize information on the facility and clients; (2) objectives forms, which help center and supervising agency staff to establish the standards for evaluation; (3) a form that summarizes the organization and procedures used at the center and identifies the location of supporting documents (which could prove that the services are actually provided as described); (4) staff questionnaires, which provide partial verification of information in the organization and procedures form and also measure staff knowledge and staff morale; (5) checklists of equipment, and physical facilities and their utilization; and (6) forms for observer ratings of group experiences, individual caretakers and routine activities. (CHW)

Published
1974

2. Social Ecology of South Commons. Final Report on Work Completed for the Office of Child Development, Planning Grant OCD-CB-486 (6/1/73-3/3/74).

Author

Council for Community Services in Metropolitan Chicago, IL., Pellow, Deborah, and Bedger, Jean E.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine if it is possible to build an inner-city community with socioeconomic and racial mix and have it work. The findings from a study carried out in the Near Southside Chicago community of South Commons, built in the late 50's are presented. Methodology included informal conversations, interviews with adult residents of all income levels and ethnicities, and observation of children. Findings show that inner group conflict is a function of class difference rather than race, and physical design and landscaping reflect such differences and exacerbate them; and that the school is fundamentally pivotal to interaction and community organization because as a sociophysical institution it has the quality of bringing together rich and poor. Four hypotheses for further work emerge from the study. Among these are that persons moving into a community out of desire to live in a mixed setting would be more committed to the specifically attracting features, and that institutions directly affecting children are fundamental to community stability and cohesion. (Author/RM)

Published
1974

3. Findings, Day Care Cost Analysis Project: An Analysis of Income and Expenditures Collected From 29 Day Care Centers.

Author

Council for Community Services in Metropolitan Chicago, IL. and Bedger, Jean E.

Abstract

This report presents the findings of the data collected from 29 day care centers (in the Chicago area and downstate Illinois) during the field test of the Day Care Cost Analysis Manual. The test had two aims: (1) to determine whether the manual's procedures are feasible for conducting a cost analysis, and (2) to collect data on the income and costs of operating day care programs. Included is a review of the strategies used in the collection of data, the findings of the field test, and a discussion of the methodology and concepts of cost analysis. (SET)

Published
1972

4. Financial Reporting and Cost Analysis Manual for Day Care Centers, Head Start, and Other Programs.

Author

Council for Community Services in Metropolitan Chicago, IL. and Bedger, Jean E.

Abstract

This manual is designed to provide fundamental directions for systematic financial reporting and cost analysis for the administrators, accountants, bookkeepers, and staff of day care, Project Head Start, and other programs. The major aims of the manual are to induce day care directors to adopt uniform bookkeeping procedures and to analyze costs according to function. Part I includes some standard bookkeeping practices: a detailed description of a bookkeeping system based on accrual accounting, practice exercises for bookkeeping, and instructions for setting up a general ledger and journal, and cash receipts and cash disbursements journals. Part II covers the strategy for day care cost analysis; guidelines for imputed income and expenses; a means of studying the utilization of time; and instructions for analyzing cost, calculating units of service and calculating the cost per child-hour and per child-year. Worksheets are included. Appendices have outlines of supplementary financial material. (SET)

Published
1973

5. The New Urban Community: Mutual Relevance of the Social and Physical Environment.

Author

Council for Community Services in Metropolitan Chicago, IL., Pellow, Deborah, and Bedger, Jean E.

Abstract

This report presents a study carried out in the near southside Chicago community of South Commons. The site was chosen because it was considered planned, heterogeneous, and located in the inner-city. The analysis is based on preliminary work carried out in the summer of 1973. This project focuses on the social and physical construction of community. It is suggested that people have spatial needs--patterned obstructions that transcend individual differences and are integrated into the social matrix where they occur. The basis for analysis was said to be mostly culled from informal conversations, off-the-cuff remarks, and a sampling of interviews with adult residents of all income levels and ethnicities; this was complemeted by observations of children at play in their home areas, the playground, etc; and finally conversations with neighborhood Youth Corps boys and girls from Prairie Courts. It is concluded that the planned inner-city community must be considered as one element in the larger urban dynamic. There is a need, it is stated, which is documented in this report, for more adequate integration of human needs, physical or spatial needs, and human services in the planning and programming of a community. (Author/JM)

Published
1973

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