Search Results for "Poverty Guidelines, Research"
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Advancing Research on Intersections of Child Welfare and Medicaid Using Linked Data from the CCOULD Project
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Increasing availability of linked child welfare and Medicaid data can advance research on the intersections of child welfare and Medicaid. The project, Child and Caregiver Outcomes Using Linked Data (CCOULD), developed a research-use dataset combining child welfare records and Medicaid claims for children and families involved in child welfare systems in Florida and Kentucky.
Measures of Material Hardship: Research Brief
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Researchers have increasingly used measures of material hardship to examine the well-being of low-income families, especially in the context of welfare reform. Despite their common focus on actual living conditions and physical needs, researchers conducting material hardship research in the U.S. have not reached consensus on the definition and measurement of material need.
Reconnecting Youth: Compendium of Programs
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Compendium of Programs: Research Report and Overview The Reconnecting Youth compendium of programs provides an overview of 78 programs and the practices they employ to support young people who experience disconnection from school and work during their transition to adulthood.
Child Care Workers’ Experience of Economic Hardship During the COVID-19 Pandemic, from 2021 to 2022
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This brief shares findings from an analysis using U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey data to examine child care workers’ experience of economic hardship from 2021 to 2022 along different measures of economic hardship, across time, by race and ethnicity, and whether child care workers lived with young children. We find:
Reconnecting Youth: A Compendium of Programs and Evidence Gap Map Exploring Programs and Practices Serving Opportunity Youth and the Evidence Behind Them
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In 2019, approximately 4.1 million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 were neither employed nor in school.
Project Update: Child Welfare and Health Infrastructure for Linking and Data Analysis of Resources, Effectiveness, and Needs (CHILDREN) Initiative
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This brief describes progress in the Child Welfare and Health Infrastructure for Linking and Data Analysis of Resources, Effectiveness, and Needs (CHILDREN) Initiative, which is entering its second year. At this time, four jurisdictions have been selected for participation in the CHILDREN Initiative and are engaging in feasibility studies to determine readiness for linking data.
Behavioral Health Diagnoses and Treatment Services for Children Involved with the Child Welfare System
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This research brief uses claims data from the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs to examine the behavioral health diagnoses and treatment services received by children and youth involved with the child welfare system in 2019.
Refugee and Asylee Data on the Utilization of Medicaid
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This brief describes a joint project of the ASPE and the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Administration for Children and Families to enhance the data infrastructure of agencies managing refugees and Medicaid services. This project is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund.
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.
Characteristics of Low-wage Workers and Their Labor Market Experiences: Research Brief
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With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), policymakers and researchers have recognized the importance of understanding the dynamics of the low-wage labor market and the economic opportunities in it.
Work-Family Supports for Low-Income Families: Key Research Findings and Policy Trends
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By: Pamela Winston Abstract
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: 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.
Characteristics of Low-wage Workers and Their Labor Market Experiences: Research Brief
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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: 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.
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.
¡Cuídate!: Impact Findings from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Replication Study (Research Brief)
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This research brief highlights findings from the evaluation of ¡Cuídate!, an HIV/AIDS prevention program that uses an approach culturally tailored to Latino youth. The study examined data from three different replications of ¡Cuídate!, pooling the data to examine the overall program impact.
Positive Youth Development in the United States: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs
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THE STATE OF THE FIELD Contents Defining Positive Youth Development Selecting Programs for Review Program Findings Evaluation Findings Summary The past 30 years have see