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What Are Teens’ Attitudes Toward Marriage?

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers’ Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns. What Are Teens’ Attitudes Toward Marriage?

High-school-aged teens hold complex and changing attitudes toward marriage. Most teens express strong support for marriage and expect to get married one day. At the same time, most teens also believe they can live happily without getting married and that it is a good idea for couples to live together before marriage. A growing number of teens want
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Michigan

Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 2. Michigan

Overview Adult day care centers that are funded by the Office of Services to the Aging (OSA) are not licensed. The OSA provides Operating Standards for Service Programs to be followed by providers of services to older persons in Michigan. Services may be provided only under an approved area plan through a formal contractual agreement between t
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California

Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 2. California

Overview In California, adult day care services are provided in two types of licensed facilities: adult day programs (ADP) and adult day health care (ADHC) centers. In addition, each local Area Agency on Aging designates at least one Alzheimer's day care resource center (ADCRC) in its planning and service area to provide specialized Alzheimer'
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Outreach

Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.. Outreach

Very little has been published about outreach programs in general, so the literature on costs and cost-effectiveness is consequently slim. An experimental study in New York (Shern et al., 2000) evaluated an outreach program for people living on the streets that included engagement, low-demand shelter/drop-in services, respite housing, and communit
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Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007

Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.

The authors summarize the progress made in the past decade toward making homeless assistance programs more accountable to funders, consumers, and the public. They observe that research on the costs of homelessness and cost offsets associated with intervention programs has been limited to people who are homeless with severe mental illness. But this
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Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final

Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report - Section 2

Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report SECTION 2. STATE REGULATORY PROFILES
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References

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. References

Amato, P. R. (1999). Children of divorced parents as young adults. In E. M. Hetherington (Ed.),  Coping With Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage  (pp. 147-164). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Amato, P. R. (1996). Explaining the intergenerational transmission of divorce.  Journal of Marriage and the Family , 58, 628-640. Amat
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b. Adolescent Risky Behaviors

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. b. Adolescent Risky Behaviors

The NLSY79 offers us a set of risky behaviors that typically begin during or near the teenage years, if they begin at all. We examine five of these behaviors: alcohol usage, marijuana usage, cocaine usage, sexual activity, and delinquency. Each of these is measured using age of initiation except for delinquency, which is a measure of
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D. Family Structure

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. D. Family Structure

ast research has emphasized the important role that family-related variables play in the prediction of various adolescent risky behaviors (e.g., Hawkins, et al., 1992; Kandel, 1996). It also seems likely that the impact of adolescent risk factors on adult outcomes is influenced, for the better or worse, by the adolescent's family unit. Family stru
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Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave among Home Health Workers: An Analysis of the National Home Health Aide Survey. References

Ashley, A., Butler, S.S., & Fishwick, N. (2010). Home-care-aides voices from the field: Job experiences of personal support specialists--the Maine Home Care Worker Retention Study. Home Healthcare Nurse, 28(7), 399. Banazak-Holl, J., & Hines, M.A. (1996). Factors associated with nursing home staff turnover. The Gerontologist, 36, 512–5
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Discussion

Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave among Home Health Workers: An Analysis of the National Home Health Aide Survey. Discussion

This analysis is the first nationally representative study to examine the extent to which workplace and agency characteristics, job stressors/demands, and compensation are associated with agency-based home health workers’ job satisfaction and intent to leave the job. The findings support some of the hypothesized relationships articulated in the
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Multivariate Analyses: Intent to Leave

Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave among Home Health Workers: An Analysis of the National Home Health Aide Survey. Multivariate Analyses: Intent to Leave

Table 4 presents four models for intent to leave. The models differ in populations included and in the variables they contained. Models I, II, and III include all 119,500 weighted cases in the analytical sample. Model IV includes a smaller subset of the population, the 63,070 weighted cases that identify themselves as “somewhat satisfied” or
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5.3. What Services Do They Qualify For?

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. 5.3. What Services Do They Qualify For?

Depending on the state, public mental health services may include a wide range of services that vary in intensity and duration, from medications and medication management at an outpatient clinic (low intensity, varying duration depending on need), through crisis stabilization (very intense but usually lasting a few days at most), and inpatient hos
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Opioid Abuse in the U.S. and HHS Actions to

Opioid Abuse in the U.S. and HHS Actions to Address Opioid-Drug Related Overdoses and Deaths

From: Opioid Abuse in the U.S. and HHS Actions to Address Opioid-Drug Related Overdoses and Deaths
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Health Challenges of Informal Caregivers

The Affordable Care Act and Caregivers Research Brief . Health Challenges of Informal Caregivers

Providing this assistance can take a toll on caregivers' mental or physical health, which consequently affects their ability to provide care for their loved one. Informal caregivers have a number of risk factors for poor health: Family caregivers are at higher risk for stress related illnesses and suffer from depression (13.2 percent) at twic
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The Affordable Care Act and Caregivers

The Affordable Care Act and Caregivers Research Brief

July 2015 Allison Carbonaro and Helen Lamont Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Economic Security Risk Factor 9. Lack of Health

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2001 . Economic Security Risk Factor 9. Lack of Health Insurance

Figure ECON 9. Percentage of Persons without Health Insurance, by Income: 1999 Source:  U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, March 2000.
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Economic Security Risk Factor 7. Child Support

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2001 . Economic Security Risk Factor 7. Child Support

Figure ECON 7a.  Total, Non-AFDC/TANF, and AFDC/TANF Title IV-D Child Support Collections: 1978-1999
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INDICATOR 8: PROGRAM SPELL DURATION

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2001 . Indicator 8: Program Spell Duration

Figure IND 8. Percentage of AFDC, Food Stamp, and SSI Spells for Individuals Entering Programs During the 1993 SIPP Panel, by Length of Spell
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Employment and Work-Related Risk Factor 7. Child

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 1997. Employment and Work-Related Risk Factor 7. Child Care Expenditures

Proportion of total family income spent on child care in families with employed mothers is an important dimension of the risk of dependency. Figure WORK 7. Percent of Monthly Income Spent on Child Care for Preschoolers by Families with Employed Mothers, 1993

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