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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.
Economic Patterns of Single Mothers Following Their Poverty Exits - Research Brief
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This ASPE Research Brief summarizes findings from a project examining the income and employment experiences of single mothers who left poverty. Nearly thirty percent of single mothers who left poverty were able to stay out of poverty during the next two years. These single mothers tended to be older, with older children.
Economic Patterns of Single Mothers Following Their Poverty Exits: Acknowledgments and Introduction
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Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)Office of Human Services Policy (HSP)Contract: 233-02-0086; Task Order 23
State and Local Estimates of the Uninsured Population in the U.S. Using the Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey
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State and Local Estimates of the Uninsured Population in the U.S. Using the Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community SurveyMethodological Description
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.
State and Local Estimates of the Uninsured Population in the U.S. Using the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey
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Leading Practices to Advance Equity and Support of Underserved Communities throughout Health and Human Services Programs
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The Role of Health and Human Service Providers in Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Research Brief
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This brief reviews the role of health and human service providers in preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.Related Products:
State Responses to FASD: Effective Strategies and Ongoing Challenges Research Brief
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This brief synthesizes effective state and local level strategies for prevention, identification and intervention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.Related Products:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Research Briefs
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is an umbrella term used to describe the range of disability that can result from prenatal alcohol exposure. FASD is an important public health and social issue associated with a large burden on society through the healthcare system, mental health and substance abuse system, foster care, criminal justice system, and long-term disability care services.
A Policy to Provide Child Care Access for All Working Families: Effects on Mothers’ Employment and Caseload
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This brief describes the effects of an alternative policy that would expand child care by providing subsidies for children ages three and younger in working families with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.
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.
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.