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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.
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.
Participation in the U.S. Social Safety Net: Multiple Programs, 2019
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Safety net programs provide critical support to people during times of economic hardship. Yet the reach and coverage of the safety net, particularly in times of increased need and among economically disadvantaged groups, is not well understood. The U.S.
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: 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.
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.
Factsheet: Estimates of Child Care Eligibility & Receipt for Fiscal Year 2019
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This factsheet provides descriptive information on child care eligibility and receipt. Of the 12.5 million children potentially eligible for child care subsidies under federal rules, 16 percent received subsidies. Of the 8.7 million children eligible for child care subsidies under more restrictive state rules, 23 percent received subsidies.
Leading Practices to Advance Equity and Support of Underserved Communities throughout Health and Human Services Programs
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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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Aging, Reentry, and Health Coverage: Barriers to Medicare and Medicaid for Older Reentrants
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Rose Feinberg, Tasseli McKay, Joshua Green and Anupa Bir RTI International Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (66 PDF pages)
Tribal Self-Governance Health Care and Social Services Delivery Effectiveness Evaluation Feasibility Study: Tribal Population Data Report
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Submitted to: Andrew Rock, Task Order Manager Office of Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Ave., SW, Suite 447-D Washington, DC 20201 Delivery Order 27 Under Contract No. HHS-100-97-0017
APPROACHES TO EARLY JAIL DIVERSION: COLLABORATIONS AND INNOVATIONS
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People with behavioral health conditions such as serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUDs), including opioid use disorder (OUD), are 3-6 times more likely than the general population to be represented in the criminal justice system.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease: A Literature Review
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This study aimed to describe and characterize the published literature on disparities between racial and ethnic groups among individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Exploring the Needs and Risks of the Returning Prisoner Population
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From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities Exploring the Needs and Risks of the Returning Prisoner Population By: James Austin George Washington University John Irwin San Francisco State University Patricia Hardyman George Washington University December 2001
APPROACHES TO EARLY JAIL DIVERSION: COLLABORATIONS AND INNOVATIONS
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APPROACHES TO EARLY JAIL DIVERSION: COLLABORATIONS AND INNOVATIONS Sue Pfefferle, Sarah Steverman, Elle Gault, Samantha Karon, and Holly Swan Abt Associates July 2019 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Forma
Earnings and Child Support Participation Among Reentering Fathers
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A father’s incarceration can represent a serious threat to economic stability for his children and family, yet little is known about earnings and child support payments among justice-involved men over the course of incarceration and release.
Improving the Collection and Use of Racial and Ethnic Data in HHS
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JOINT REPORT OF THE HHS Data Council Working Group on Racial and Ethnic Data AND The Data Work Group of the HHS Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health December, 1999