Research & Development Committee-Sponsored Projects

Title Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology to Analyze Patterns of Utilization, Stability and Effect of Exempt-Child Care Among CalWORKS Recipients in Fresno County
Principal Investigator(s): Mark Hanna, Fred Childers, Mitzi Lowe, C.K. Leung, and Marianne Jones
School: CSU, Fresno
Project Goal: To develop a geographic database of Fresno County child care providers to be linked into existing county databases, including therein the ability to track child welfare populations across intra-county childcare settings.
Project Duration: 15 months
Project Status: Completed
Project Outcomes: -- "Improving Human Service Planning with ArcView: An Exploratory Study of Child Care Stability and Utilization" published on the ESRI Web page and on CD
-- 2001 ESRI paper
-- ESRI Powerpoint presentation
-- Spatial Stability Analysis

Last updated: June 30, 2003