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Integrating Services to Strengthen Children, Youth, and Families and Prevent Involvement in the Child Welfare System
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The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been working with researchers, human services agency leaders, and persons with lived experience to visualize, describe, and document models of primary prevention within human services.
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.
Economic Patterns of Single Mothers Following Their Poverty Exits
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This report examines the employment patterns and income progression of single mothers and their families for two years after they exit poverty. The study found that 30 percent of single mothers were poor but then left poverty. Work effort was high among single mothers who left poverty: on average they worked for three-quarters of the subsequent two years following their poverty exit.
22nd Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors Report to Congress
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This report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2019 for most indicators and through 2020 for other indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.
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 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: 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.
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.
Meeting Substance Use and Social Service Needs in Communities of Color
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In this brief, we highlight experiences and practices from substance use treatment providers and their human services partners when serving people of color. We selected providers that focused on serving people of color, and this study was not intended to assess outcomes or effectiveness of any of the practices highlighted.
Leading Practices to Advance Equity and Support of Underserved Communities throughout Health and Human Services Programs
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COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented economic crisis with inequitable effects. In this series of issue briefs, ASPE's Office of Human Services Policy examines inequities in the pandemic's social and economic consequences and highlights the implications for programs that serve vulnerable families and children.
Extending the EITC to Noncustodial Parents: Potential Impacts and Design Considerations
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Submitted to:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Submitted by: The Urban Institute
COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity: Inequities in the Employment Crisis
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented economic crisis with inequitable effects. Overall employment figures mask the disparate impacts on some communities of color, women, and low-wage workers. These groups were more likely to lose jobs, reduce hours worked, or withdraw from the labor market.
Methods and Emerging Strategies to Engage People with Lived Experience
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This brief identifies methods and emerging strategies to engage people with lived experience in federal research, programming, and policymaking. It draws on lessons learned from federal initiatives across a range of human services areas to identify ways that federal staff can meaningfully and effectively engage people with lived experience.
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Risks that Come with Increasing Earnings for Low-Income Workers Receiving Safety Net Programs: Perspectives of Working Parents
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In focus group discussions with 44 working parents receiving assistance from one or more federal programs, many parents shared the view that increasing earnings involves a number of risks. Participants described the sequence of possible risk events as follows:
Marginal Tax Rate Series
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Our Marginal Tax Rate research series examines the range of effective marginal tax rates for low-income households and common benefit program “bundles.” We also focus on families receiving child care subsidies (CCDF) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Working with Low-Income Cases: Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share
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Fred Doolittle Suzanne Lynn Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Adoption USA. A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents
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Authors: Sharon Vandivere and Karin Malm Child Trends Laura Radel