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Since 1997, HHS, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice have been funding the Urban Institute under a cooperative agreement to study the impact of recent changes in Federal laws on immigrant families and children and to profile immigrants with regard to their health, employment, economic circumstances and participation in gove

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 short-term economic and employment outcomes of

The Conference Report accompanying the 1998 targeted appropriation specified that the Department assess the potential for using food stamp administrative data to look at welfare "leavers" and nonparticipants at the national level. Historically, almost all of the households that received AFDC/TANF also participated in the Food Stamp Program.

Welfare caseload numbers released in August showed that the number of welfare recipients has decreased from 14.1 million in January 1993 to 6.3 million in December 1999 - a drop of 56 percent, or 7.8 million. Nearly three-quarters of this overall decline has occurred since the welfare reform law (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Re

Conference Report language accompanying the targeted welfare outcomes research funding for Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999 urged the Department to submit its research plan to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to receive guidance on research design and recommendations for further research. Accordingly, we have provided over $1 million to the NAS to

A substantial proportion of our FY 1998 and 1999 welfare outcomes funding went to partnering with states and counties through grants to study the experiences of people who left the TANF program ("leavers") or were diverted from welfare. While most of the studies funded with the targeted Policy Research funds are still on-going projects, including

1.   Information on ACF's welfare-related activities can be found at < http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/index.htm >. Information on ACF's welfare-research activities can be found at < http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opre/ >. 2.   The NAS Panel Study and the short-run recommendations included in the Interim Report are discuss

Collection and Use of State-Specific Surveys and State and Federal Administrative Data

Building and enhancing state and local capacity for data collection and monitoring studies remains integral to our welfare reform research efforts. We hope to continue supporting state-level data collection efforts, administrative data linking, and the creation of public-use and restricted-access data files. Because TANF is a state-driven program,

Significant provisions included in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, and most notably the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, are subject to reauthorization in 2002. The upcoming reauthorization process adds a sense of immediacy to understanding the effects of welfare reform w

In its report for the FY 2000 Appropriation for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Conference Committee added funds for the third year to the Policy Research account in the Office of the Secretary and directed in its report that the funding support studies of the outcomes of welfare reform:

A Report to the Congressional Appropriations Committees Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services December 2000

Type of Activity:   Services Funding Mechanism:   Grant Total Available Funding:   $ 61.6 million Number of Awards:   140 grants Award Amount:   Grants that provide outreach and pretreatment services are funded for an amount to pass $400,000/year/grant. Grants that provide clinical substance abuse treatment are funded up to $450,

Funding Mechanism:   Grant Total Available Funding:   $9.6 million (FY 2009-2012 cohort) $7.98 million (FY 2010-2013 cohort) Number of Awards:   42 total 24 (FY 2009-2012) 18 (FY 2010-2013) Length of Project Period:   3 years Federal Partners:   None

Funding Mechanism:   Grant Total Available Funding:   $4 million Number of Awards:   10 Average Award Amount per Year:   $400,000 Length of Project Period:   3 years Federal Partners:   None

Type of Activity:   Services Funding Mechanism:   Grant Total Available Funding:   $94.8 million per year Number of Awards:   30 Average Award Amount:   $3,352,000 Length of Project Period: Sept. 30, 2010 - Sept. 29, 2014 (4 years) Federal Partners: There are no joint funders. Although, the terms and conditions of the Awa

Type of Activity:   Services Funding Mechanism: Grants Total Available Funding: $5.141 million Number of Awards: 13 Average Award Amount per Year: $395,000 per year Length of Project Period: Up to 5 years Federal Partners: none