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Sources of Support for Young Latina Mothers

Sources of Support for Young Latina Mothers

SOURCES OF SUPPORT FOR YOUNG LATINA MOTHERS Joan R. Kahn and Rosalind E. Berkowitz The Urban Institute August 16, 1995 Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, Contract No. HHS-100-92-0005, Delivery Order No. 14. The authors gratefully acknowledge the h
Caring for Immigrants:

Caring for Immigrants: Health Care Safety Nets in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Houston

Contents Background About the Four Cities Immigrants Access to Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Immigrants Access to Health Services Safety Net Providers Organizational and Financial Responses Factors Shaping the Policy Responses Conclusion
Application Process for TANF, Food Stamps,

Application Process for TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, and SCHIP

This report explores one key dimension of access to public benefits  the application and eligibility determination process. Of particular interest is how local-level administrative procedures and operations may generally affect eligible families access to benefits. Special consideration is given to exploring these issues as they relate to immigra
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Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care

As the number of immigrant children and children of immigrants in the U.S. has grown, child welfare agencies are serving an increasingly diverse spectrum of families, including many with at least one parent or some children who were born outside the U.S. To improve their work with these families, a number of child welfare agencies have in recent
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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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Overview of Immigrants' Eligibility for SNAP

Overview of Immigrants' Eligibility for SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, and CHIP

This brief describes key federal and state immigrant eligibility provisions to help inform policymakers, program administrators and communities serving immigrant families and children. It provides an overview of the variability across states regarding immigrant eligibility for SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, and CHIP. [12 PDF pages]
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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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Medical Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault

Medical Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence and Its Applicability to Victims of Human Trafficking

This Issue Brief examines the procedures and protocols that currently exist for assessing and treating victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in health care settings in an effort to begin evaluating their applicability to victims of human trafficking. This topic was identified at the National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Traffi
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Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment for

Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment for Victims of Human Trafficking

This Issue Brief examines the evidence-based research for treating common mental health conditions experienced by victims of human trafficking. This was a topic identified at the National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims sponsored by ASPE and held in Washington, DC, September 22-23, 2008. [13 PDF pages]
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Study of HHS Programs Serving Human Trafficking

Study of HHS Programs Serving Human Trafficking Victims: Final Report

This is the final report produced under this project and includes an executive summary at the beginning of the report. The report summarizes and synthesizes all of the information obtained under the literature review, the site visits, and the National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims, and draws upon the issue briefs produ
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Human Trafficking Into and Within the United

Human Trafficking Into and Within the United States: A Review of The Literature

This comprehensive review of current literature on human trafficking into and within the United States focuses on surveying what the social science or other literature has found about the issues of identifying and effectively serving trafficking victims. A more specific focus concerns the phenomenon of “domestic trafficking” (trafficking invol
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National Symposium On the Health Needs of Human

National Symposium On the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims: Post-Symposium Brief

This Issue Brief presents an overview of the major topics discussed at the National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims sponsored by ASPE and held in Washington, DC, September 22-23, 2008.  The brief focuses on the post-presentation discussions and suggestions of participants. Most of the presentations themselves, along wit
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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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Case Management and the Victim of Human

Case Management and the Victim of Human Trafficking: A Critical Service for Client Success

This Issue Brief focuses on the importance of case management in working with international victims of human trafficking from the point of identification until a victim reaches self-sufficiency. This brief looks at the characteristics of an effective case manager along with the benefits not only to victims, but also other key stakeholders includin
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Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment and

Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment and Mental Health Recovery for Victims of Human Trafficking

This Issue Brief focuses on the trauma experienced by most trafficking victims, its impact on health and well-being, some of the challenges to meeting trauma-related needs of trafficking victims, and promising approaches to treatment and recovery. While this issue brief touches on trauma across human trafficking populations, it has a special emph
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Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking:

Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking: Inherent Challenges and Promising Strategies From the Field

This Issue Brief focuses on the identification of international and domestic victims of human trafficking in the U.S, looking at the various challenges as well as promising practices to identifying this population. The brief looks at these issues from a broad perspective and has implications for a broad range of organizations and people (e.g., hea
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Finding a Path to Recovery: Residential

Finding a Path to Recovery: Residential Facilities for Minor Victims of Domestic Sex Trafficking

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.

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