SNACS-II was a comprehensive, nationally representative assessment of childcare providers participating in USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program. Providers included childcare centers, Head Start centers, family day care homes, at-risk afterschool centers, and outside-school-hours care centers. The study addressed more than 70 research questions organized around eight research objectives.
J&A gained cooperation from sponsors and providers of childcare, and coordinated with these providers to prepare for onsite data collection activities, beginning with reaching out to sponsors by telephone and/or email and ending with completing specific activities for data collection visits. These included coordinating logistics, establishing rapport, scheduling site visits and working with a sample that was ineligible and/or refused to participate. J&A bilingual recruiters recruited 233 sites across the United States, providing recruitment status reports and entering data in the study’s database and Sharepoint.
