Place-Based Initiatives and Community/Faith-Based Partnerships

Improving the Design, Targeting, and Effectiveness of Training and Technical Assistance: A Learning Agenda

This learning agenda explores several potential topics for further learning about training and TA outcomes and approaches.

Training and TA Learning Agenda
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Technical Appendix: Research Design Options by Research Topic
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Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Strategies for Intermediaries

This brief explores lessons about six strategies federal or philanthropic agencies can take to try to enhance local cross-sector collaboration.

Collaboration Strategies for Intermediaries
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How to Assess and Address Technical Assistance Needs: Insights from the Literature and Practice

This brief uses a literature review and interviews with TA providers and recipients to explore strategies for assessing recipients' needs for training and technical assistance (TA).

Assessing and Addressing TA Needs
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Technical Assistance and Other Strategies for Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Insights and a Learning Agenda

ASPE is interested in better understanding opportunities for federal agencies to support better cross-sector collaboration at the local level to ultimately help increase economic mobility and well-being for children and families and reduce inefficiencies in social services programs.

Improving Human Services Using Virtual Technical Assistance

HHS and other federal agencies support a wide range of technical assistance (TA) initiatives – including both virtual and in-person efforts – to support their significant investment in local communities working to improve economic resilience and well-being. Virtual TA is a form of planned and ongoing TA delivered remotely with built-in opport

Strengthening Human Services through Social Capital

ASPE has contracted with Research Triangle Institute and the University of North Carolina School of Government for this project, which seeks to understand how local, state, faith-based, and nonprofit human services programs and organizations can create and use social capital to increase employment, reduce poverty, and improve child and family well

Housing Assistance and Supportive Services in Memphis

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Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially

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

Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC

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:

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendices

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. Methodology

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. Introduction

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.

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Summary of Current State Laws

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): The Promise and Challenge of Using Volunteers to Provide Community-Based Marriage Education

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