Social Services Delivery and Implementation

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Trends in the Demand for Assistance Services (1999)

Current status: People being removed from public assistance who have not found jobs or achieved self-sufficiency may become clients of emergency services such as soup kitchens and homeless shelters. In some cities, there are well-developed networks of private human services providers that collect data about their clients. This project studies the

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Technical Assistance to Welfare Outcomes Grantees (1999)

Current Status: In FY 1999, ASPE procured a contractor, ORC Macro, to assist ASPE staff in providing technical assistance to both the FY 1998 and FY 1999 welfare outcomes grantees. The contractor's major task was to work with ASPE staff to coordinate two meetings of the grantees, held in Washington, DC, in Fall 1999 and Fall 2000. In carrying out

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Follow-up on the Wisconsin Project for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients (1999)

Current status: In fiscal year 1997, ASPE funded the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty to conduct an administrative data study of the outcomes of families who left AFDC in Wisconsin during 1995. The reports produced during the first study provided useful early results for the Department on the economic and employment outcom

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS) (1999)

Current status: The L.A. FANS is a four-year longitudinal study by RAND of children, their families, and their neighborhoods in Los Angeles. While designed to answer broader research questions about the effects of neighborhoods on children, the study also is examining the effects of welfare reform at the neighborhood level. The study design includ

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, S-CHIP and Food Stamps (1999)

Current Status: ASPE, along with the Administration for Children and Families, the Health Care Financing Administration and USDA, contributed funding to a major $5.9 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide technical assistance and grants to states and large counties to improve their enrollment and redetermination proces

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Welfare Reform and Its Implications for Persons with Disabilities (1998)

Current Status: This project is a supplement to an ongoing four-year study of the implications of welfare reform for low-income families living in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio (a summary of the study is available at < http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare> ). The broader study is being undertaken by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Pennsyl

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Welfare Reform and the Health and Economic Status of Immigrants and the Organizations that Serve Them (1998 and 1999)

Current Status: ASPE and other federal agencies contributed funds in 1998 and 1999 to award a grant to the Urban Institute to deepen our understanding of the impact of recent changes in Federal laws on immigrant families and children by conducting a large-scale study of immigrants and their communities in Los Angeles and New York City. See Resul

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Research Grants on Welfare Outcomes (1999)

Current status: ASPE awarded approximately $807,000 in grants in FY 1999 to support seven researcher-initiated proposals to study important questions related to the outcomes of welfare reform. Through these grants, we are supporting efforts to analyze a variety of information about low-income individuals (both adults and children) and their famili

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Reform Outcomes, with an Emphasis on Diversion (1999)

Current status: One of the Congress's major objectives in providing welfare outcomes money to ASPE over the last several years is to measure outcomes for a broad population of low-income families, welfare recipients, former recipients, potential recipients, and other special populations affected by state TANF policies, including diversion practice

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Continuation of 1998 Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Outcomes (1998 and 1999)

Thirteen states and large counties received funding in September 1998 to study the outcomes of welfare reform on individuals and families who leave welfare. Some of the grants also included studies of families who applied for cash welfare but never enrolled and families who appear to be eligible but not enrolled. See < http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/l

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Update on Other Continuing Projects Funded by the FY 1998 and FY 1999 Appropriations to Study Welfare Outcomes/Leavers

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Other New Projects

How Low-Wage Working Families Cope as Parents and Workers

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Major Projects Continued from FYs 1998 and/or 1999

National Academy of Sciences Panel Study on Welfare Outcomes

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Major New Projects

Researcher Initiated Grants on Welfare Outcomes

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Projects Funded by the FY2000 Appropriation to Study Welfare Outcomes/Leavers

Following are descriptions of projects ASPE funded in FY 2000 from the targeted appropriation to study welfare outcomes.

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Endnotes

1. In FY 1999, an additional $837,000 was awarded for continuations and extensions of several of the FY 1998 projects. Also funded in FY 1999 were leavers studies in Iowa, Texas, and Contra Costa County, California, as well as several applicant/diversion studies.

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Archiving of AFDC Data

This project organized into a data archive the Characteristics Surveys of AFDC recipients (which were carried out every two years from 1967 through 1979) and the annual AFDC Quality Control administrative data (collected from 1982 through 1996). These data facilitate comparisons between the TANF program and its predecessor AFDC program to analyze

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Research Uses of Emergency TANF Report Data

ASPE undertook three related projects using the newly available source of welfare reform data collected through the Emergency TANF Data Report (ETDR): (1) working with the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, to improve the collection, storage, and release of these data; (2) doing cross-sectional

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Advancing States' Child Indicators Initiatives

This project promoted state efforts to develop and monitor indicators of the health and well-being of children as welfare reform and other significant policy changes occur. Capacity building was the fundamental goal of the project. It has been very successful in getting states to look seriously at their capacity to assess trends in children's well

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000. Understanding the AFDC/TANF Child-Only Caseload

In 1999, 29 percent of TANF cases were child-only families in which only children received the benefits. We know from earlier data (1998) that in about 40 percent of these families the children are living with adult relatives who are not their parents (and benefits are paid only on behalf of the children under their care), while in the remaining 6

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