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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2007 - Executive Summary
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. The 2007 Indicators of Welfare Dependence , the tenth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2004, reflecting changes that have taken place since


The Relationship between Substance Use Indicators and Child Welfare Caseloads
This research brief describes how select indicators associated with substance use prevalence relate to the changing trend in child welfare caseloads. It is part of a series describing findings of a mixed methods study undertaken to better understand how parental substance use relates to child welfare caseloads, which began rising in 2012 followin
SubstanceUseCWCaseloads.pdf


Indicators for Tracking Academic Health Centers
Indicators for Tracking Academic Health Centers


AIDS Children and Child Welfare: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
AIDS Children and Child Welfare
Stephen Margolis, Ph.D., Lela Baughman, M.S.W., J. William Flynt, M.D. and Martin Kotler
Macro Systems, Inc.
March 31, 1988
PDF Version
aidskids.pdf


AIDS Children and Child Welfare: Final Report
The goals of the study are to: define the issues related to providing care to children with AIDS; place parameters around the size and scope of the problem; and attempt to clarify some of the perceptions and approaches relevant to the problem. This project focuses on children with AIDS whose parents are, or have had sexual contact with, IV drug ab
aidskids.pdf


Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections
Family indicators typically include measures such as family structure, employment and poverty status, and benefit receipt. However, these indicators do not fully portray how families function as a unit and as part of society. To lay the groundwork for addressing this issue, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Policy Research and Child Trends to produ
chartbook.pdf


State Innovations in Child Welfare Financing
This report describes how states are implementing fiscal reforms to contain costs or improve the performance of their child welfare systems. 23 initiatives in 22 states are described. The report also identifies issues that the implementation of fiscal reforms face and describes how well fiscal reforms appear to be working. Many of these reforms
report.pdf


Profile of Families Cycling on and off Welfare
The report analyzes the experiences of welfare "cyclers" (those who received welfare benefits during three or more discrete spells during a four-year observation period) using five MDRC studies of welfare reform initiatives during the mid- to late-1990s. Overall, cyclers constituted a relatively small portion of the welfare caseload (9 percent). C
report.pdf




Advancing State Child Indicator Initiatives: Summary of April 1999 Meeting
A Summary of the Meeting of
April 28 through 30, 1999
Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives is sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Martha Moorehouse of ASPE is the Project Officer. This summary was prepared by the Chapin Hall Center for Chil