The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially Supports Faith-Based Social Services
Luis Lugo, Director of the Religion Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, has developed a nine-point scale in describing the variety of ways that the government can support faith-based agencies in organizations in their delivery of social welfare services. The nine types of government support — ordered from high to low in terms of general pub
The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC
NSHAPC covered 16 different types of homeless assistance programs, defined as follows:
Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Sources
Statutes from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia were the primary sources of information for this report. Each state’s statutes were accessed via the Internet—usually through the state legislature’s Website. As of this writing, all of the statutes were current through at least 2003. This report is not intended to be a legal
Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Types of Laws
This report focuses on laws that criminalize voluntary sexual acts involving a minor that would be legal if not for the age of one or more of the participants. The report does not include laws where the legality of the sexual acts is dependent on the relationship of the participants (e.g., incest, sex between teachers and students or doctors and p
Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Terminology
Unlike most rape laws, in which force is a key element of the offense, statutory rape laws assume that all sexual activities with individuals below a certain age are coercive, even if both parties believe their participation is voluntary. Generally, statutory rape laws define the age below which an individual is legally incapable of consenting to
Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Endnotes
[2] The Alan Guttmacher Institute (1994). Sex and America’s Teenagers. New York.
Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Project Description
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is concerned about the health of adolescents, including unwanted sexual contact at a young age. For example, research finds that:
Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Acknowledgements
Work on this project was funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a contract to The Lewin Group. This report benefited greatly from the oversight and input of Jerry Silverman, the ASPE Project Officer.
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The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Conclusions
Faith-based and other community-based non-profit organizations have a long history of helping people in need. The NSHAPC data analyzed here provide yet more evidence of the continuing importance of faith-based organizations in serving people who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness. Faith-based non-profits run the majority of homeless
The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Government Funding of Homeless Assistance Programs
Revenue streams in non-profit organizations are “a complex mix of private and public dollars raised through grants, contracts, fees for services, sales, donations, investment income, special events income, and income from commercial ventures” (Boris 1998) and NSHAPC collected only very limited funding information from service providers. The
The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Referrals to and from Programs
The CATI survey asked respondents where most of their clients came from — referrals from other programs, self-referral, outreach by program staff, or other. 21 Respondents were also allowed to report that there was no single source from which most of their clients came. Responses to this question are reported in Table 9 for faith-base
The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Primary Client Needs, Availability of Services, and Location of Services
The above analysis provides a broad sketch of homeless client needs for a wide range of services. The remainder of this section examines a few of these needs in more detail, namely the twelve service needs that have been identified by over half of all program administrators as being needed by all or most clients (see Table 8 ). In addition t
