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Peer Support as a Social Capital Strategy for Programs Serving Individuals Reentering from Incarceration and Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence or Human Sex Trafficking
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Many human services programs recognize the power of “social capital,” or the value that arises from relationships. This report offers insight into how programs use peer supports to help build social capital with participants who are reentering the community after incarceration or are survivors of intimate partner violence or sex trafficking.
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Key Considerations for Administrators and Practitioners
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This brief presents considerations for program administrators and other practitioners around increasing the use of primary prevention in human services systems to shift from responding to families after they are in crisis to preventing the crisis before it occurs.
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Opportunities for People with Lived Experience
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This brief highlights a new way of delivering primary prevention services that promotes equity by relying on the guidance and leadership of people with lived experience. The policy designers and service providers behind prevention services should have lived experience and/or co-create these services with people who do.
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Convening Findings
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This brief highlights key themes and ideas from a Health and Human Services (HHS) Convening on Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services in August 2022. With a particular focus on prevention of youth and family homelessness, the convening featured the perspectives of academic experts, program administrators, federal colleagues, and people with lived expertise.
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Key Considerations for Policy Designers and Funding Partners
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This brief provides key considerations for policy designers and funding partners—such as federal staff, technical experts, and philanthropic partners—on incorporating primary prevention into human services delivery.
Federal Resources on Two-Generation Approaches for Human Services
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Home Resources Federal Programs This web page provides information and resources about developing and implementing two-generation approaches from federal agenc
Strengthening Human Services through Social Capital
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ASPE has contracted with Research Triangle Institute and the University of North Carolina School of Government for this project, which seeks to understand how local, state, faith-based, and nonprofit human services programs and organizations can create and use social capital to increase employment, reduce poverty, and improve child and family well-being.
Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council FY 2023 Report to Congress
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As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Congress provided HHS with funding for the Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council (CICC). The CICC is charged with fostering greater coordination and transparency on child policy across federal agencies and examining a broad array of cross-cutting issues affecting child poverty and child well-being.
Resources for developing and implementing two-generation approaches
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Home Resources Federal Programs Federal agencies have produced a variety of resources and research related to the development and implementation of two-generat
Facilitating Low-Income Families’ Use of Emergency Paid Family Leave: Considerations for Human Services Agencies in Supporting Workers and Their Employers
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 Congress enacted emergency paid family leave (Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act) as well as emergency paid sick leave. This brief suggests lessons for facilitating the use of emergency paid family leave by lower-income families, drawing on research by ASPE on families’ participation in state paid family leave programs.
Providing TA to Local Programs and Communities: Lessons from a Scan of Initiatives Offering TA to Human Services Programs
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This scan of public and private technical assistance (TA) initiatives synthesizes lessons, challenges, and best practices for providing federal TA to human services programs working to address poverty and child well-being. The scan, encompassing 18 TA initiatives, is intended to inform decisions about how best to target TA efforts for different situations, audiences, and objectives.
2016 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
[Federal Register Notice, January 25, 2016 Full text ]
2021 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
[Federal Register Notice, February 1, 2021 - Full text]
Projections of Poverty and Program Eligibility during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the slowdown in economic activity have impacted the well-being of many U.S. families. Unemployment peaked at 14.7 percent in April, and remained above 8 percent in August. The CARES Act and the Family First Coronavirus Response Act used several short-term policy strategies to address this challenge.
Federal programs that can support two-generation approaches
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Home Resources Federal Programs To implement a two-generation approach, service providers and state and local governments rely on a range of programs and resource
2020 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
[Federal Register Notice, January 17, 2020 Full text]
Loss of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Status: Frequency, Contributing Factors and Implications
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This paper seeks to document the frequency of Medicaid coverage loss among full-benefit dual eligible beneficiaries and identify potential causes for coverage loss. For dual eligible beneficiaries, the loss of full-benefit Medicaid coverage is of concern because most of them do not have an alternative source of health insurance for the services covered by full-benefit Medicaid.
2018 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
[Federal Register Notice, January 18, 2018 Full text]
2019 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
2017 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
[Federal Register Notice, January 31, 2017 Full text ]