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Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care. III. Non-financial Assistance for Relative Caregivers

Issue: What information and services do kinship foster families need, and how are these different from the needs of non-kin foster families?

Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care. Responding to a Congressional Directive

In passing the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA, P.L. 105-89), the Congress recognized the growing practice of using relatives as licensed foster parents in many States and communities in the United States. As a step toward building a better understanding upon which to base future policy and legislative decisions, the Congress requeste

Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care. Education, Employment, and Income

Almost all studies that have collected data on the income of kinship caregivers have found that they are significantly poorer than non-kin foster parents (Barth et al., 1994; Beeman et al., 1996; Berrick et al., 1994; Brooks and Barth, 1998; Chipungu et al., 1998; Gebel, 1996; Geen and Clark, 1999; Le Prohn, 1994; Zimmerman et al., 1998). For exam

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. 2.2. Establishing Eligibility

2.2.1. Categorical Eligibility for Medicaid For decades, people have qualified for Medicaid benefits based on categorical eligibility. The two most common eligibility categories have been as follows: The Covered Families and Children population--parents, children, and pregnant women whose household income is at or below the income eli

Education and Employment of Disconnected Low-Income Men. Notes

In 2010, the year for the data estimates, the federal poverty threshold was $11,344 for a single adult and $17,552 for a family of three with one child. Twice the poverty level was $22,688 for a single adult and $35,104 for a family of three ( http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/ ). Unless specified otherwise, statistics are ba

Education and Employment of Disconnected Low-Income Men. Low-Income Men Have Less Personal Income to Contribute to Their Families

The target population for these briefs is defined by the income of the family in which they live. The exact income that puts these men into the low-income category depends on the size of the family and the income of all of its members. Personal income is the income earned or otherwise received by the individual low-income man.

Education and Employment of Disconnected Low-Income Men. Low-Income Men Are More Likely to Be Unemployed and Underemployed

Employment status can be measured in a number of ways. This brief uses several definitions for a more complete picture of low-income men’s connections to work. In addition to the official unemployment rate, we examine men’s participation in the labor force and their engagement in part-time work.

Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts. Part I reviews the academic and related research literature on kinship care, including what

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Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty. Employment

Educational disparities have direct and immediate consequences in the labor market, and these disparities tend to be exacerbated during a recession. But for men of color, the employment gap—whether measured by unemployment rates or employment-to-population ratios7—remains large in good times and in bad. The unemployment rate among African Amer

Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty. The Focus on Disconnected Low-Income Men

We concentrate on the experiences and challenges of men at the margins between the age of 18 and 44, when most American males are actively engaged in productive activities such as working and building skills, forming and strengthening families, and linking to social institutions. Focusing on this age group, we will not cover childhood, except wher

Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty

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Care Resources Available to Older Adults with

Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Care Resources Available to Older Adults with Activity Limitations

Potential informal networks and actual care networks of older adults living outside nursing homes are shown in Table 5. Only 2.5% of those receiving assistance and about 1.2% of those receiving no assistance had no informal network members. The mean size of the potential network is relatively stable across levels of care, approximately 4.0-4.1 acr

Trends in the Use of Early Care and Education, 1995-2011: Descriptive Analysis of Child Care Arrangements from National Survey Data. Maternal employment

Children with employed mothers were more than twice as likely to participate in non-parental ECE as those with mothers who were not employed: four-in-five children with an employed mother were in some type of non-parental care arrangement, compared to only one-in-three children with mothers who were not employed. For children younger than three, t

Homeless Children: Update on Research, Policy, Programs, and Opportunities. References

Alperstein, G., Rappaport, C., & Flanigan, J.M. (1987). Health problems of homeless children in New York City. American Journal of Public Health, 78, 1232-1233. Barrow, S. M. & Laborde, N. D. (2008). Invisible mothers: Parenting by homeless women separated from their children. Gender Issues, 25 , 157–172. Barrow, S. M., & Lawi

Overview of Community Characteristics in Areas With Concentrated Poverty. In the average metropolitan concentrated poverty area, one in three adults older than 25 did not graduate from high school or earn a GED.

Compared to the national average, adults in these areas were twice as likely to not graduate from high school and almost three times less likely to have a bachelor’s degree, on average. These areas are home to less than four percent of the Nation’s population over the age of 24. However, over eight percent of the population older than 24 that

Overview of Community Characteristics in Areas With Concentrated Poverty. Adult joblessness is pervasive in concentrated poverty communities.

In the average metropolitan concentrated poverty area, only 45 percent of the working-age population (age 16 and older) is employed, or looked at differently, the modal adult is jobless (i.e., unemployed or not in the labor force). The national employment-to-population ratio for the same time period (2007-2011) was 59 percent. Among all poor indiv

Overview of Community Characteristics in Areas With Concentrated Poverty. Children in metropolitan high poverty communities are more than twice as likely to be raised by a single mother than the average child.

More than half of the households with children (53 percent) in metropolitan concentrated poverty areas are headed by single females. This compares to 26 percent of all U.S. households and 60 percent of households living in poverty. Although these zips codes are home to just over four percent of the Nation’s households with children, more than ei

Overview of Community Characteristics in Areas With Concentrated Poverty. One in nine of all teen births in the United States are to young women who live in metropolitan areas of concentrated poverty.

In the average metropolitan concentrated poverty ZCTA, the teen birth rate is 2.25 times higher than the national rate of 27 births per thousand females ages 15 to 19. 6 The teen birth rate in high poverty ZCTAs was 63 for every 1,000 young women ages 15 to 19, and in every region it was at least twice the national level, on average. In one quart

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings. Reasons for Screening in Health Care Settings

Domestic violence is prevalent among women

Screening for Domestic Violence in Health Care Settings

In light of recent policy changes in support of domestic violence screening in health care settings, this policy brief presents the state of practice and research on this preventive service. The brief discusses reasons for screening in health care settings, the current prevalence of screening and reasons this prevalence is relatively low, existing

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