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Providing Medicaid to Youth Formerly in Foster

Providing Medicaid to Youth Formerly in Foster Care under the Chafee Option

This report draws lessons from 30 states’ implementation of existing optional Medicaid coverage for youth who age out of foster care and applies them to decisions and plans states will consider as they implement new ACA coverage that goes into effect in 2014. Wide variations in how states have implemented the so-called Chafee Option are focused
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Web-Based Benefit Access Tools: Mitigating

Web-Based Benefit Access Tools: Mitigating Barriers for Special Needs Populations

This paper summarizes findings from eight in-depth case studies conducted for the "Helping Vulnerable Populations Access Public Benefits through Web-based Tools and Outreach" project. The paper discusses specific barriers and needs among the various segments of the low-income population with respect to access and use of web-based benefit access to
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Barriers to Immigrants' Access to Health and

Barriers to Immigrants' Access to Health and Human Services Programs

This brief identifies several factors that contribute to lower application and take-up rates among eligible immigrants, including: (1) the complexity of the application process and eligibility rules; (2) related administrative burdens; (3) language, literacy, and cultural barriers; (4) transportation and other logistical challenges; and (5) climat
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Promising Practices for Increasing Immigrants

Promising Practices for Increasing Immigrants' Access to Health and Human Services

This brief identifies several promising practices that can help overcome access barriers. A consistent theme is the crucial role played by community-based organizations (CBOs) in effectively addressing barriers related to complicated application processes, and issues of language, literacy, fear, and mistrust. All four states visited had establish
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The Affordable Care Act: Coverage Implications

The Affordable Care Act: Coverage Implications and Issues for Immigrant Families

This brief provides an overview of how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect the eligibility of different immigrants, depending on lawful status and length of residence in the U.S. It highlights the demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics and uninsured rates for key immigrant subgroups and describes how the ACA could affect
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Linking Human Services and Housing Assistance for

Linking Human Services and Housing Assistance for Homeless Families and Families at Risk of Homelessness

This final report presents findings from the Linking Human Services and Housing Supports to Address Family Homelessness project. Through in-depth, on-site case studies, this study observed 14 communities that coordinate federally funded housing supports and comprehensive services to more effectively serve homeless families and families at risk of
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Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-

Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach

This report summarizes findings from a national scan of web-based benefits access tools and eight in-depth case studies done for the “Helping Vulnerable Populations Access Public Benefits through Web-based Tools and Outreach” project.  The report identifies the design, technology, and financial considerations in implementing such models and a
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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent

Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Recent Proposals and Continuing Controversies

In the years since welfare reform transformed federal cash assistance for the poor into to the time-limited, work-focused Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program, the issue of substance abuse among welfare recipients has arisen periodically as a policy and programmatic concern. This Issue Brief examines recent State and federal legi
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Web-based Screeners and Applications: Potential

Web-based Screeners and Applications: Potential Tools for Improving Benefit Access and Program Efficiency

This issue brief summarizes findings from eight in-depth case studies done for the “Helping Vulnerable Populations Access Public Benefits through Web-based Tools and Outreach” project. The brief provides a framework for thinking about the design and operation of web-based benefits access tools by summarizing the characteristics of the selected
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A Comprehensive Review of Immigrant Access to

A Comprehensive Review of Immigrant Access to Health and Human Services

This comprehensive literature review summarizes and describes the federal and state immigrant eligibility rules under the TANF, Medicaid/CHIP and SNAP programs. The existing landscape of immigrant eligibility is complex, shifting, and variable across and sometimes within states. The paper also summarizes immigration enforcement activities and othe
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Overview and Inventory of HHS Efforts to Assist

Overview and Inventory of HHS Efforts to Assist Incarcerated and Reentering Individuals and their Families

The purpose of this document is to help Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies know the full range of programs and services in the Department that currently address the needs of incarcerated individuals and their families and to understand what research and evaluation efforts are underway to identify evidence-based practices.
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Findings from a Study of the SSI/SSDI Outreach,

Findings from a Study of the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) Initiative

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) programs provide critical income support for those who meet eligibility requirements. The SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) initiative aims to improve access to SSI/SSDI benefits for individuals who are homeless through a multi-pronged strategy desi
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Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF

Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF and Medicaid Programs

This Housing Status Assessment Guide for State TANF and Medicaid Programs is part of a study entitled Homelessness Data for HHS Mainstream Programs , that explored the extent to which states collect data on housing status and homelessness from applicants for the two largest HHS mainstream programs that may serve individuals or families experien
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Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

This study explores the extent to which states collect data on housing status and homelessness from applicants for the two largest HHS mainstream programs that may serve individuals or families experiencing homelessness: Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Interviews were conducted with TANF and Medicaid directors in all
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Refugee Economic Self-Sufficiency: An Exploratory

Refugee Economic Self-Sufficiency: An Exploratory Study of Approaches Used in Office of Refugee Resettlement Programs

The purpose of this exploratory study was to learn what factors and approaches utilized by Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) programs contribute to refugee economic self-sufficiency. The issue of whether these approaches were applicable to mainstream welfare-to-work programs was also addressed. Methods used to obtain information included a lite
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Addressing the Needs of Victims of Human

Addressing the Needs of Victims of Human Trafficking: Challenges, Barriers, and Promising Practices

This Issue Brief focuses on the multiple service needs of victims of human trafficking and the services available to meet those needs. Additionally, it discusses challenges and barriers to providing services to victims, international and domestic, adults and minors, and highlights innovative solutions to these challenges and promising practices t
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Child Care Arrangements in Urban and Rural Areas

Child Care Arrangements in Urban and Rural Areas

This paper compares non-parental care arrangements of pre-school age children in urban and rural areas of the United States using data from the 2005 National Household Education Survey (NHES), Early Childhood Program Participation Survey (ECPP). Data from the NHES show that among preschool-age children, those in rural areas are about as likely as
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Child Care Eligibility and Enrollment Estimates

Child Care Eligibility and Enrollment Estimates for Fiscal Year 2005

This Issue Brief presents an estimate of the number of children who meet the eligibility requirements for child care assistance under the Child Care and Development Fund. The estimates are produced by the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) developed by the Urban Institute under contract to ASPE. The Brief also provides estimates of the number of childre
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Developmental Status and Early Intervention

Developmental Status and Early Intervention Service Needs of Maltreated Children

This report describes the extent to which maltreated children have developmental problems or are subject to factors associated with poor developmental outcomes, what services these children might be eligible to receive, what factors influence service receipt, and what solutions have been devised to address barriers to service provision.
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Using Vouchers to Deliver Social Services:

Using Vouchers to Deliver Social Services: Considerations Based on the CCDF and TANF Program Experiences

Recent years have brought increasing policy interest in using indirect funding mechanisms such as vouchers to increase client choice of provider and to expand the array of available providers to include such groups as faith-based and community organizations. ASPE launched this study as a first step toward better understanding voucher use in two sp
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