Reports

Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs: Methods Developed for the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Submitted to:Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIGHLIGHTS: Inventory of Consumer-Directed Support Programs

13 Indicators of Quality Child Care: Research Update Presented to: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal and Child Health Bureau U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

IntroductionOne of the most dramatic findings to emerge from the 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC) is the tremendous growth in the number and variety of homeless assistance programs during the late 1980s and early 1990s.  There is now a virtual “industry” of homeless assistance programs, and initial analyses of NSHAPC data provide a first g

Jessica Miller, M.S., Boryana Dimitrova, M.A. and Marc Cohen, Ph.D. LifePlans, Inc. This report was prepared under contract #BPA-OS-01-0267C between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and LifePlans, Inc.

The purpose of this analysis is to gain a better understanding of how having a private LTC insurance policy interacts with and affects the use of Medicare financed home health, skilled nursing and inpatient services. The authors used Medicare claims data and linked it to a sample of 578 community-based disabled elders receiving benefits under their LTC insurance policies.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Impact of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Benefits on Selected Medicare Services

Preliminary Evidence from Los Angeles and New York City Submitted by: Randy Capps, Leighton Ku and Michael Fix Chris Furgiuele, Jeff Passel, Rajeev Ramchand, Scott McNiven, Dan Perez-Lopez [The Urban Institute]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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.

by: Laudan Y. Aron and Patrick T. Sharkey, The Urban Institute March 19, 2002

This paper reports estimates of the numbers of families and children who are eligible for child care subsidies under the Child Care and Developemtn Fund (CCDF). The estimates are produced by the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) developed by the Urban Institute under contract to ASPE. The paper explains the estimation methodology and also presents detailed national and state-level estimates.

This report is intended to provide policymakers with critical information on prescription coverage, use and cost for both younger and older disabled Medicare beneficiaries using data from the 1995-1998 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surveys. [27 PDF pages]

This report primarily provides analyses based on a telephone survey of 3,447 immigrant families (i.e., families with at least one foreign-born adult) in New York City and Los Angeles County, including detailed data on 7,843 people in those families.

Submitted to: Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: The Lewin Group Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman Plamen Nikolov, Stephanie Laud

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared within the Office of Human Services Policy and delivered to Congress each spring.

Eligibility for CCDF-Funded Child Care Subsidies Under the October 1999 Program Rules: Results from the TRIM3 Microsimulation Model Prepared by: Helen Oliver, Katherin Ross Phillips, Linda Giannarelli, and An-Lon Chen Urban Institute June 2002

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Graying of Medicare’s Disabled Population: Implication for a Medicare Drug Benefit

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Final Report Robert M. Goerge, Principal Investigator Lucy Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Barbara Needell, Alan Brookhart, William Jackman Center for Social Services Research, University of California Berkeley March, 2002

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Growth in the Adoption Population by Fred H. Wulczyn and Kristin Brunner Hislop, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago March, 2002

This paper reports on meetings of the Technical Expert Panels (TEPs) that were formed as part of the project "Frontline Workers in Long-Term Care." TEPs were established to address the following three areas as they relate to direct care workers in long-term care settings: (1) Extrinsic rewards and incentives, such as wages and fringe benefits; (2) Workplace culture, which focuses on the organiz

This report presents a summary of major findings and outcomes from the dialogues that took place at "Independent Choices: A National Symposium on Consumer-Direction and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities" held in Washington, DC in June 2001.

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Foster Care Dynamics in Urban and Non-Urban Counties February 2002 This paper is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/fostercare-issues02/dynamics/index.htm

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services INDEPENDENT CHOICES: National Symposium on Consumer-Directed Care and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Summary Report

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Frontline Long-Term Care Worker Project:Summaries of the Three Technical Expert Panel Meetings

The conference summary report synthesizes key aspects of the Prisons to Home project including the state symposium discussions, conference plenary and break-out sessions, and the research papers developed for the conference.

From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration on Children, Families, and Communities

Craig Thornton, Sheldon Retchin, Kenneth D. Smith, Peter D. Fox, William Black and Rita Stapulonis Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. January 2002 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-96-0017 between the U.S.

by: Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, and Barbara Fink with Diana Adams-Ciardullo

Craig Thornton, Sheldon Retchin, Kenneth D. Smith, Peter D. Fox, William Black and Rita Stapulonis Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

ForewordPerformance Improvement 2002: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the eighth annual report to Congress summarizing previous fiscal year evaluation efforts. The purpose of this report is to provide Congress with outcome-oriented evaluation findings for the Department’s programs, policies, and strategies.

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Terri S. Thompson, Asheley Van Ness and Carolyn T. O'Brien The Urban Institute December 2001 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-99-0003 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the Urban Institute.

Contents Permanency and Reunification Trends in 25 States Reunification From Foster Care in Nine States 1990-1997: Description and Interpretation The Role of Race in Parental Reunification Casework Decision Making

Contents Findings in Brief Background Program Approaches and Implementation Features Research Designs and Samples Five-Year Effects on Use of Employment-Related Services and Costs

Services integration necessitates the development of collaborations across public agencies, or between public and private organizations.

Reentry may be thought of as a community-level process when it occurs in high concentrations. The concepts of social capital and collective efficacy have been used to explain the production and maintenance of disadvantage and its consequences.