Age, Gender & Gender Identities

Prepared by: Child Trends Project Coordinators: Daniel J. Berry, Lisa J. Bridges, and Martha J. Zaslow

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the project and present a design for future phases of the project. It incorporates all suggestions from the Task Order Monitor and the Technical Advisory Group. The full Literature Review was submitted to ASPE as a separate document.

This report is one in a series produced under the National Evaluation of the DOL Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Grants Program. This study examines the extent to which former welfare recipients, if they were to experience a job loss, are likely to have monetary eligibility for Unemployment Insurance (UI).

Family indicators typically include measures such as family structure, employment and poverty status, and benefit receipt. However, these indicators do not fully portray how families function as a unit and as part of society.

This is the campanion volume of papers to the Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections chartbook. Family indicators typically include measures such as family structure, employment and poverty status, and benefit receipt. However, these indicators do not fully portray how families function as a unit and as part of society.

Information in this report was collected prior to the passage of Title XXI of the Social Security Act, or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). During the summer of 1997, nine states were interviewed that had already developed children’s health insurance programs to cover uninsured children.

By Sharon M. McGroder, Ph.D., Martha J. Zaslow, Ph.D., Kristin A. Moore, Ph.D., and Jennifer L. Brooks, Ph.D. Child Trends

This announces the launch of a comprehensive, searchable Web site that contains information on hundreds of technology products to improve quality of life and care in long-term care residential settings, http://www.techforltc.org/.