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Family Well-Being

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Evaluation of the New York City Home Rebuilders Demonstration

The HomeRebuilders project was an ambitious effort to test a major reform of the foster care system in New York City. In 1993, the New York State Department of Social Services (DSS) and the New York City Child Welfare Administration began testing a new approach to the financing of services to foster children and their birth families based on concepts from managed care.

Aid to Families with Dependent Children The Baseline

Introduction The term “welfare” has long been identified with the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.  While the AFDC program was an important component of the safety net for low-income families with children, there was a near universal consensus that the program contained serious flaws.  In August 1996, the Personal Responsi

The Cash and Counseling Demonstration: An Experiment in Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Services

This article appeared in the American Rehabilitation (Volume 24, Number 3, pp27-30). [14 PDF pages]

Iowa's Limited Benefit Plan

Authors: Thomas M. Fraker Lucia A. Nixon Jan L. Losby Carol S. Prindle John F. Else Submitted to: Iowa Department of Human Services Division of Economic Assistance

Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies to Address Domestic Violence: The Experiences of Five Communities

Laudan Y. Aron and Krista K. Olson The Urban Institute March 1997

Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence in Six Communities: Beyond the Justice System

by Sandra J. Clark, Martha R. Burt, Margaret M. Schulte and Karen Maguire of the Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, October, 1996.