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Behavioral Health Crisis Services: Insurance Reimbursement
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The National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) call for a sustainable infrastructure to respond to behavioral health crises, through crisis services that are accessible to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Factors that Impact the Child Support Program’s Role in Reducing Child Poverty: Convening Summary
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This brief summarizes an expert convening focused on the child support program’s current ability and future potential to help address child poverty.Key Findings
Federal Funding Compendium of Crisis Services: Final Report
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recently developed guidelines for establishing a comprehensive crisis response system for behavioral health. Per these guidelines, a comprehensive system should provide individuals in crisis with “someone to call,” “someone to respond,” and “a place to go” to receive crisis response services.
Guidance on Proper Consideration of Small Entities in Rulemakings of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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This guidance, originally published in 2003, contains the following introduction:
Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines, and Their History
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This page includes resources on the two slightly different versions of the U.S. (federal) poverty measure: the poverty thresholds and the poverty guidelines.
The Fiscal Impact of Refugees and Asylees at the Federal, State, and Local Levels from 2005-2019
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Between 1990 and 2022, the United States welcomed over 2.1 million refugees and accepted over 800,000 asylees. While the purpose of granting visas to refugees and asylees is humanitarian, they do impact the United States economically. This analysis estimates the fiscal impact of refugees and asylees on federal, state, and local governments from 2005 to 2019.
Announcement of the Availability of Funds and Request for Applications for a Cooperative Agreement to Establish a National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility
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The goal of this solicitation is to improve the effectiveness of public policies that reduce poverty, inequality, and their consequences, promote economic mobility and equity, and further develop knowledge of the structural causes of poverty, inequality, and economic insecurity.
Guidelines for Regulatory Impact Analysis Supplement: Addressing International Effects
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This report extends the brief discussion of addressing international effects contained in the Department of Health and Human Service Guidelines for Regulatory Impact Analysis (2016). The purpose of this supplement is to expand that discussion and provide more detailed information on conducting such assessments.
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Measuring Income and Poverty in Four Surveys: an Overview
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Measuring Income and Poverty in Four Surveys: an Overview
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Policy makers use national surveys to paint a picture of the U.S. population along a variety of dimensions. If major surveys are equally successful in capturing income, then, for the same time period, populations and income types, consistently defined income estimates and poverty rates across surveys will be highly similar varying somewhat due to sampling error.
Effect of Home Ownership on Poverty Measurement
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Reasons for Measuring Poverty in the United States in the Context of Public Policy — A Historical Review, 1916-1995
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The views expressed in this paper are those of the authorand do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. August 1999, revised June 2000
Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, 21st 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.
Addressing Uncertainty in Regulatory Impact Analysis
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In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized its Guidelines for Regulatory Impact Analysis under the leadership of its Assistant Secretary for Planning Evaluation and Analytics Team. The Guidelines discuss strategies for characterizing the uncertainty in quantified effects as well as the potential impacts of non-quantified effects.
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.
Valuing COVID-19 Mortality and Morbidity Risk Reductions in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regulatory Impact Analyses
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This report develops an approach for valuing COVID-19 mortality and morbidity risk reductions based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Guidelines for Regulatory Impact Analysis. Valuing risk reductions associated with regulations or other policies that address the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents major challenges.