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Children, Youth, & Families

ASPE produces a range of policy research to promote child development, early childhood care and education, child welfare, positive youth development, and child and family well-being. 

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Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs: Methods Developed for the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs

Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs: Methods Developed for the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Submitted to:Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report

Submitted by: Barbara Devaney Amy Johnson Rebecca Maynard Chris Trenholm Mathematica Policy Research, Inc Submitted to: Meredith Kelsey Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

State Innovations in Child Welfare Financing

Recent fiscal reform initiatives have attempted to address some of the seemingly chronic problems of the child welfare system in the United States. This report describes how states are implementing fiscal reforms to contain costs or improve system performance. It also identifies issues that the implementation of fiscal reforms faces and describes how well fiscal reforms appear to be working.

Growth in the Adoption Population

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Growth in the Adoption Population by Fred H. Wulczyn and Kristin Brunner Hislop, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago March, 2002

State Policies to Promote Marriage. Preliminary Report.

Submitted to: Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: The Lewin Group Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman Plamen Nikolov, Stephanie Laud

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Final Report Robert M. Goerge, Principal Investigator Lucy Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Barbara Needell, Alan Brookhart, William Jackman Center for Social Services Research, University of California Berkeley March, 2002

Eligibility for CCDF-Funded Child Care Subsidies under the October 1999 Program Rules: Results from the TRIM3 Microsimulation Model

This paper reports estimates of the numbers of families and children who are eligible for child care subsidies under the Child Care and Developemtn Fund (CCDF). The estimates are produced by the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) developed by the Urban Institute under contract to ASPE. The paper explains the estimation methodology and also presents detailed national and state-level estimates.