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Understanding the AFDC/TANF Child-Only Caseload: Policies, Composition, and Characteristics in Three States
Prepared for:
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Prepared by:
The Lewin Group
Mary Farrell, Michael Fishman, Stephanie Laud, and Vincena Allen
Contract Number: 100-96-0011, Task Order 7
Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Findings From Exploratory Site Visits and Review of Program Plans
INTRODUCTION The Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grants program was created under the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (BBA) to provide job opportunities, employment preparation, and job retention services for welfare recipients who are the hardest to employ. Congress intended for this new grants program to supplement ongoing welfare reform policies and programs enacted under the Personal Responsibility and Work…
Analysis of State Actions Regarding Donor Registries
The Lewin Group, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation"BACKGROUNDThe purpose of this report is to provide an introductory analysis of state legislative actions related to organ and tissue donor registries. This analysis focuses on describing the current state legislation on donor registries, comparing legislation among the various states, and how such…
Informal Caregivers of Disabled Elders with Long-Term Care Insurance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
January 2000
PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/icdeltci.pdf (54 PDF pages)
Private Payers Serving Individuals with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions
Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., Mark W. Smith, Ph.D., Rosanna M. Coffey, Ph.D., Tami L. Mark, Ph.D., Cheryl A. Neslusan, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-95-0044 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the MEDSTAT Group.
Informal Caregivers of Disabled Elders with Long-Term Care Insurance
The purpose of this report is to provide basic descriptive statistics on the primary informal caregivers of disabled private long-term care insurance policyholders who have accessed long-term care benefits and are living in the community. Also compared are key characteristics of these individuals to informal caregivers of non-privately insured disabled elders. [54 PDF pages]
The Federal Role in the Move Toward Consumer Direction
This article is intended to provide historical perspective on the Federal Government's involvement in the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation as an example of the federal role in consumer direction. Specifically, it describes how previous research and analysis led to DALTCP's interest in sponsoring this social experiment and shaped our thinking about its purpose and design. [11 PDF…
Private Payers Serving Individuals with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions
Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., Mark W. Smith, Ph.D., Rosanna M. Coffey, Ph.D., Tami L. Mark, Ph.D., Cheryl A. Neslusan, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group
Informal Caregivers of Disabled Elders with Long-Term Care Insurance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth, 2000
AcknowledgmentsThis report, and its earlier editions, would not have been possible without the substantial support of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics whose member agencies provided data and carefully reviewed relevant sections.
Performance Improvement 2000
ForewordPerformance Improvement 2000: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the sixth annual report to Congress summarizing previous fiscal year evaluation efforts. The purpose of this report is to provide Congress with evaluative information on the Departments programs, policies, activities, and strategies. It contains brief summaries of…
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications
By:
The Lewin Group
Submitted to:
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and
The National Institute of Mental Health,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Proceedings of the New England Meeting of the State Child Indicators Projects: Forum on School Readiness and Child Care Indicators
Hosted by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Providence, December 2 & 3, 1999 This meeting was sponsored by the Advancing States’ Child Indicators Initiatives project of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York Starting Points initiative and the Finance Project. Martha…
A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Miriam Rose, M.Ed., and Charles D. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H. Myers Research Institute December 14, 1999 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/facres.pdf (122 PDF pages)
A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities
This report presents data from a telephone survey of the administrators of assisted living facilities across the country. These facilities were selected from a national probability sample of all facilities that met the criteria for inclusion in the study. Thus, the findings are representative of the industry as a whole. As such, they represent the first empirical data on the characteristics of…
A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities
Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Miriam Rose, M.Ed., and Charles D. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Myers Research Institute
December 14, 1999
This report was prepared under #HHS-100-94-0024 and #HHS-100-98-0013 between HHS's ASPE/DALTCP and the Research Triangle Institute. Additional funding was provided by American Association of Retired Persons, the Administration on Aging, the National Institute on Aging…