Early Childhood and Child Welfare

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Overflow Designs

Overflow designs, in which a comparison group is composed of cases not served because programs are full, provide information about effects that is somewhat better than single group or non- comparable group designs. We review four such studies here.

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Non-experimental Studies

Many early evaluations of programs designed to prevent placement used non-experimental designs in which groups receiving these services were followed without comparing them to other groups or in which nonequivalent comparison groups were used. 5 The studies of only groups receiving services appear to have had implicit "phantom" nontreatment cont

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Placement Prevention

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Family Preservation

As indicated in the companion paper on current family preservation programs, one of the most striking features of these efforts is their diversity. They vary on a number of dimensions, including the extent to which the focus is on placement prevention versus other goals, such as the improvement of family functioning. 2 There is also variation in

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs

by Julia H. Littell and John R. Schuerman Westat, Inc., in association with James Bell Associates, and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. A part of the National Evaluation of Family Preservation Servcies For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Servi

The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas Karl Ensign U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation September 1989 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/frfoscar.pdf (45 PDF

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Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An Analysis of the SIPP Data Base

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An Analysis of the SIPP Data Base Lorelei R. Brush, Ph.D. Analysis, Research and Training October 14, 1987 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/ccusage.pdf (45 PDF pages)

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An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options for Work-Welfare Programs

MAXIMUS, Inc. April 1988 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-85-0004 between HHS's Office of Social Services Policy (now the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy) and MAXIMUS, Inc. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the ASPE home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov. The Project Officer was Sha

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Appendix F: Bibliography

AcademyHealth (2004). Improving Federal health data for coverage and access policy development needs. Washington, DC. Alperstein, G., Rappaport, C., and Flanigan, J. (1988). Health problems of homeless children in New York City. American Journal of Public Health , 78, 1232-1233. Arrigo, B. (1998). The “modest needs” homeless families. Adm

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. E.3 Measuring Household Income and Poverty Sample

As noted in the report, two samples of families from the Fragile Families dataset were selected for re-analysis. An initial sample was limited to families where the mother is 18 years of age or older and has a household income at their Year 1 interview at or below the national poverty threshold based on the year of their interview (1999 through 20

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. E.2 Overview of Fragile Families Data Set

Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study Conducted by Princeton University’s Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and Columbia University’s Social Indicators Survey Center Principal Investigators: Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Christina Paxson

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. E.1 Outcome Tables for Fragile Families Data Set

Table E-1. Demographic and background characteristics households at least 50 percent below poverty line Stably Significant Group Comparisons Stable At Risk Dbld Housed

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Appendix E: Fragile Families Data Set

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Endnotes

* Direct all correspondence to: David Reingold, Associate Professor, Indiana University, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, 1315 E. 10 th Street, Rm. 410, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. Reingold@indiana.edu. Biographical Statements

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. References

Axelson, Leland, J., and Dail, Paula, W. “The Changing Character of Homelessness in the United States,” Family Relations , Vol.37, No.4, 463-469, 1988. Bassuk, Ellen, L. et al. “Homelessness in Female-Headed Families: Childhood and Adult Risk and Protective Factors,” American Journal of Public Health . Vol. 87, No. 2, February 1997

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Discussion & Conclusion

Our analytic approach is designed to measure the multiplicity of individual and structural factors that may be associated with increased risk of becoming homeless, while also measuring those characteristics thought to protect families from this unfortunate hardship. The design of the Fragile Families Study allows us to estimate these effects on

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Families at-Risk of Being Homeless: A Comprehensive Empirical Inquiry

In order to expand our understanding of the current characteristics of homeless families, while comparing the importance of individual and structural factors that represent both proximate and distal risk and protective dimensions, we analyze data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. This new longitudinal birth-cohort sample of ap

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. At Risk Families & Homelessness

This fragmentation in the literature has created a perception that many hypothesized correlates of family homelessness matter equally. Whether it is domestic violence, drug use, weak labor force attachment, lack of informal social support, high housing costs, climate, the decline in the value of cash welfare benefits, etc., all have some empir

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Theoretical Background

Typologies are ubiquitous in the social sciences. They are frequently used to help provide clarity and improve understanding of a given population, situation, or pattern of social organization. They are not designed to capture all subtle variation in a given context, but function as a heuristic device to provide theoretical clarity to help for

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Introduction

Scholarly research over the past twenty-five years has firmly established the emergence and persistence of family homelessness in the United States. The homeless household – usually a mother and her children – represents a departure from the stereotypical image of skid-row residents (sometimes referred to as the “old homeless”) who are

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