Contents Research Question and Methods Core Results Implications Directions for Future Research The role of alternative work arrangements temporary help, independent contractors, on-call workers, and contract company worker
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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Prepared by: Julia Lane, Kelly S. Mikelson, Patrick T. Sharkey, Douglas Wissoker The Urban Institute 2100 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20037
Impact on Young Children and Their Families 2-Years After Enrollment: Methods: How Did We Study Impacts on Children?
OverviewChapter 1 addressed the question of why it is important to focus on the effects of JOBS programs on children. We turn now to the question of how child impacts were studied in the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study and, more specifically, in the two-year follow-up wave of the study.
Impact on Young Children and Their Families 2-Years After Enrollment: Why Look at Two-Year Impacts of JOBS Welfare-to-Work Programs on Children?
Overview Welfare reform policies are sometimes referred to as "two generational" because not only are the lives of the parents changed by government welfare-to-work programs, but the lives of the children are changed as well. At the most basic level, children's time use patterns and child care patterns are likely to change.
On Their Own Terms: Supporting Kinship Care Outside of TANF and Foster Care
Contents Characteristics and Service Needs of Kinship Caregivers Alternative Kinship Care Program Models and Services Lessons Learned about Designing and Implementing Alternative Programs Policy Implications
Status Report on Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2001
Chapter I: Introduction and Overview Background In its report for the FY 2001 Appropriation for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Conference Committee added funds for the fourth year to the Policy Research account in the Office of the Secretary and directed in its report that the funding support studies of the outcomes of welfar