Age, Gender & Gender Identities

In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considering when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts.

This issue brief focuses on minors who are victimized by sex traffickers across the U. S. and is intended to provide practical information about the characteristics and needs of these minors and describe the type of residential programs and facilities currently providing services for this population.

This brief describes the key components of the HHA Partnering Collaborative model, implementation challenges and successes, and the results and implications from the evaluation. [9 PDF pages]

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The Home Health Aide Partnering Collaborative is a quality improvement project developed and implemented at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. The primary purpose of the Collaborative was to enhance the quality of work life for home health aides while improving outcomes for home health patients.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services This report was written by Gil Crouse, Sarah Douglas, and Susan Hauan of the Office of Human Services Policy under the direction of Melissa Pardue, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

This paper examined the extent to which subsidies from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) served families in urban and rural areas of the country in FY 2004. Overall, the analysis found that the distribution of CCDF caseloads approximately matched the distribution of children (all incomes) residing in those areas.

Contents Who Owes the Arrears? State Variation in Arrears How Collectible are the Arrears? Why have Arrears Grown So Rapidly? Actions taken by Study States to Manage Arrears Despite