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Family Well-Being

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Supporting Employment Among Lower-Income Mothers: The Role of Paid Family Leave

This is the second of two ASPE briefs about a qualitative study of lower-income mothers' attachment to work around childbirth and the role of state paid family leave (PFL) programs.
ASPE Issue Brief

Expanding Access to Family-Centered Medication-Assisted Treatment Issue Brief

This Issue Brief represents the finding of a white paper prepared by RTI under funding from ASPE. The analysis included a programs scan of policy initiatives in 21 states and individual interviews with academics, federal experts, state officials and individual providers.

State Policy Levers for Expanding Family-Centered Medication-Assisted Treatment

Many women facing opioid addiction are either pregnant or caring for children and face a number of social, structural and economic barrier in accessing treatment.

Cross-Domain Instability in Families with Some College Education

This brief examines instability across key areas of family life for children and their households, and the characteristics of those most likely to experience instability.

Patterns of Foster Care Placement and Family Reunification Following Child Maltreatment Investigations

This research brief identifies characteristics of children and families who reunified with parents or family following the child’s stay in foster care, patterns regarding success or failure of reunification, as well as maltreatment re-reports among children reunified with their families.

Head Start Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness: Trends, Characteristics, and Program Services

This research brief presents findings on the characteristics of Head Start children and families that experienced homelessness, as well as services Head Start programs reported providing to these vulnerable children and families, using data from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey.

Exploring Cross-Domain Instability in Families with Children

Studies in a range of disciplines document high levels of instability for many families and the negative effects this insecurity can have on child development, adult well-being, and family self-sufficiency. This study examines the nature and extent of instability for children and their families using nationally representative data on nearly 15,000 children.

Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering: Program Impacts Technical Report

This report presents findings on the impact of couples-based family strengthening services in four prison-based programs from the Multi-Site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering (MFS-IP) and discusses the implications for policy, programs, and future research.

Child and Partner Transitions among Families Experiencing Homelessness

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study finds that about 30 percent of sheltered homeless families reported a separation from at least one family member. Family transitions continued in the following 20 months, with 10 percent of families experiencing new child separations and 8 percent reporting reunification with children who had not been with the family in shelter.

Impact of Couples-Based Family Strengthening Services for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and Their Partners

This brief summarizes findings on the impact of couples-based family strengthening services in four prison-based programs from the Multi-Site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering (MFS-IP) and discusses the implications for policy, programs, and future research.