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.
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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Early Childhood and Child Welfare
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Economic Mobility and Employment
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Family Strengthening
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Poverty and Measurement
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Strengthening Communities
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Social Services Delivery and Implementation
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Vulnerable Populations
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Youth
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Advanced SearchThe 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs
IntroductionOne of the most dramatic findings to emerge from the 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC) is the tremendous growth in the number and variety of homeless assistance programs during the late 1980s and early 1990s. There is now a virtual “industry” of homeless assistance programs, and initial analyses of NSHAPC data provide a first g
How Are Immigrants Faring After Welfare Reform?
Preliminary Evidence from Los Angeles and New York City Submitted by: Randy Capps, Leighton Ku and Michael Fix Chris Furgiuele, Jeff Passel, Rajeev Ramchand, Scott McNiven, Dan Perez-Lopez [The Urban Institute]
1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs
by: Laudan Y. Aron and Patrick T. Sharkey, The Urban Institute March 19, 2002
How Are Immigrants Faring?
This report primarily provides analyses based on a telephone survey of 3,447 immigrant families (i.e., families with at least one foreign-born adult) in New York City and Los Angeles County, including detailed data on 7,843 people in those families.
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
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
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.
Report to Congress
Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2002
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence.