TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karoly,Lynn A.
AU  - Kilburn,M.Rebecca
AU  - Bigelow,James H.
AU  - Caulkins,Jonathan P.
AU  - Cannon,Jill S.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - Casey Family Program.
ED  - Starting Early Starting Smart (Program)
TI  - Assessing costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs: overview and application to the Starting Early Starting Smart program 
SN  - 0833029738 (RAND)
AV  - HV741 .A86 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Starting Early Starting Smart (Program)
KW  - Child development
KW  - United States
KW  - Child mental health services
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Children
KW  - Drug use
KW  - Services for
KW  - Cost effectiveness
KW  - Early childhood education
N1  - "Spring 2001."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-138); Introduction -- Overview of Cost and Outcome Analysis -- Issues in Cost and Outcome Analysis of Early Childhood Intervention Programs -- Benefit-Cost Findings for Early Childhood Intervention Programs -- Applying Cost and Outcome Analysis to the Starting Early Starting Smart Program -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Starting Early Starting Smart Grant Sites -- Appendix B: SESS Program Acknowledgments -- Appendix C: Mission Statements of the National Collaborators; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - Does money invested early in a child's life pay dividends in the form of government savings or other societal benefits as he or she grows into adulthood? Is there a best method for determining what, if any, dividends have accrued? The authors identify the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the analysis of costs and outcomes of early intervention programs and review the prior application of these methods to several programs. This background leads to recommendations regarding the application of these tools for a particular public-private early intervention program, Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS). SESS was designed to test the effectiveness of integrating behavioral health services within primary care and early childhood service settings for children from birth to age seven. The specific recommendations are framed as a set of more general guidelines for decisionmakers to make choices about early childhood intervention programs
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1336/
ER  -