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Office of Human Services Policy (HSP)

The Office of Human Services Policy (HSP) conducts policy research, analysis, evaluation, and coordination on various issues across the Department, including but not limited to, poverty and measurement, vulnerable populations, early childhood education and child welfare, family strengthening, economic support for families, and youth development. HSP serves as a liaison with other agencies on broad economic matters and is the Department’s lead on poverty research and analysis.

The Division of Children and Youth Policy focuses on policies related to the well-being of children and youth. Projects range from quick-turnaround policy analyses to large-scale experimental studies, and major policy initiatives. Key areas include early childhood, early care and education, home visiting, youth development and risky behaviors, parenting and family support, child welfare and foster care, linkages with physical and mental health, methods for evaluating what works, and strategies for improving research and data in these areas.

The Division of Family and Community Policy focuses on policies affecting various low-income populations. This includes policy development around major initiatives such as homelessness and reentry. It also includes conducting and coordinating analysis, research, and evaluation on the safety net, economic mobility and opportunity, welfare-to-work issues, strengthening families and responsible fatherhood, child support enforcement, and domestic violence. Other key priorities include place-based initiatives, the role of social capital in human services, human trafficking, benefits coordination.

The Division of Data and Technical Analysis focuses on policies and programs concerning low-income and otherwise disadvantaged populations. The Division provides data analytic capacity for policy development through data collection activities, secondary data analysis, modeling, and cost analyses. The Division focuses on cross-cutting human services policy issues such as income, poverty, cash and non-cash supports for low-income families, employment, fertility, and child welfare. The Division also issues annual updates to the poverty guidelines and reports to Congress on indicators of welfare dependence.

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The Uninsured in the March 1997 Current Population Survey

Charts from Tabulations by ASPE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services Prepared by Gene Moyer 202-690-7861 Author: Gene Moyer

Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for Teenage Parents: Lessons from Experience in Four States

by Robert G. Wood and John Burghardt Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation  
Report to Congress

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 1997

    Indicators of Welfare Dependence  

Determinants of AFDC Caseload Growth

A. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES

Formal and Informal Kinship Care

By Allen W. Harden of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and Rebecca L. Clark and Karen Maguire of The Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, June 20, 1997.

Informal and Formal Kinship Care

Volume I. NARRATIVE REPORTS IntroductionThis report presents the results of work pursued by analysts at two separate research institutions in a collaboration designed to provide the best information available to describe the children living without a parent in kinship care arrangements in the United States.

Setting the Baseline: A Report on State Welfare Waivers

by Ann Rosewater, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Iowa's Limited Benefit Plan

Authors: Thomas M. Fraker Lucia A. Nixon Jan L. Losby Carol S. Prindle John F. Else Submitted to: Iowa Department of Human Services Division of Economic Assistance

ReWORKing Welfare Technical Assistance for States and Localities

A How-to Guide Work First How to Implement an Employment-Focused Approach to Welfare Reform Amy Brown Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation