Welfare Reform/Welfare-to-Work

Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, 2000

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

Research and Grants on Issues Relating to Children and Youth: 1986-1991

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Research and Grants on Issues Relating to Children and Youth: 1986-1991 Division of Children and Youth Policy Office of Family, Community and Long-Term Care Policy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services October 1991 PDF Ver

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Welfare Reform and Disability: Issues and HHS Activities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Welfare Reform and Disability: Issues and HHS Activities Interagency Work Group on Welfare Reform and People with Disabilities October 1997 PDF Version (8 PDF pages)

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Welfare Mothers as Potential Employees: A Statistics Profile Based on National Survey Data

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Welfare Mothers as Potential Employees: A Statistical Profile Based on National Survey Data Nicholas Zill, Ph.D., Kristin A. Moore, Ph.D., Christine Winquist Nord, Ph.D., and Thomas Stief Child Trends, Inc. February 25, 1991 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/1991/

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An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options for Work-Welfare Programs

MAXIMUS, Inc. April 1988 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-85-0004 between HHS's Office of Social Services Policy (now the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy) and MAXIMUS, Inc. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the ASPE home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov. The Project Officer was Sha

Service Utilization and the Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Children with Disabilities in Illinois

Robert Goerge, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, David Koepke and Allison Harris

An Exploratory Study of Barriers and Incentives to Improving Labor Force Participation Among Persons with Significant Disabilities: Final Report

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Screening and Assessment in TANF/Welfare-to-Work: Ten Important Questions TANF Agencies and Their Partners Should Consider

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Screening and Assessment in TANF/Welfare-to-Work: Ten Important Questions TANF Agencies and Their Partners Should Consider Executive Summary

Screening and Assessment in TANF/Welfare-to-Work: Local Answers to Difficult Questions

Terri S. Thompson, Asheley Van Ness and Carolyn T. O'Brien The Urban Institute December 2001

Deriving State-level Estimates from Three National Surveys: A Statistical Assessment and State Tabulations

Lisa Alecxih and John Corea

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Endnotes

1 We have had a challenging time obtaining good funding information from some of the homes in this program. Therefore, these per-resident-family costs should be viewed only as approximate. 2 Inwood House officially has a capacity to serve 36 residents. However, the home has been operating below this capacity for some time, due primarily to a

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The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Friends of Youth Transitional Living Program (Washington)

Basic Program Structure. Friends of Youth (FOY) operates the Transitional Living Program, which includes two maternity group homes and three residential programs for other youth populations in the Seattle area. 3 The two maternity homes serve 20 pregnant and parenting young women and their children. FOY has operated other residential programs

Inwood House Maternity Residence (New York)

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Inwood House Maternity Residence (New York)

Basic Program Structure. With a capacity to serve up to 36 teens, Inwood House Maternity Residence is the largest of three New York City maternity homes for pregnant teens in the foster care system. 2 The Administration for Children Services (ACS), the city's child welfare agency, contracts with Inwood House to operate the program, which serv

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. The Teen Parent Program (New Mexico)

Basic Program Structure. The New Mexico Teen Parent Program (TPP), which is managed by the state's Children, Youth, and Family Department (CYFD), funds five group homes and three non-residential programs for pregnant and parenting teens throughout the state. The five homes have the capacity to serve 38 pregnant and parenting teens and their ch

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Teen Parent Supportive Housing Services Collaborative (Michigan)

Basic Program Structure. The Family Independence Agency (FIA) of Wayne County, the agency responsible for serving TANF families, oversees a small county-based network the capacity to serve pregnant and parenting teens in the Detroit area. The network currently includes three maternity group homes, an agency that provides mental health and outr

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. The Teen Living Program (Massachusetts)

Basic Program Structure. The Massachusetts Teen Living Program (TLP) includes 20 regular TLP group homes and 3 transitional Supportive Teen Parent Education and Employment Program (STEP) facilities for pregnant and parenting teens throughout the state. The TLP homes and STEP facilities can house 177 teens and their children, making the program

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. St. Andre Home, Inc. (Maine)

Basic Program Structure. St. Andre Home, Inc. operates four maternity group homes in Maine, which can serve a total of 16 pregnant and parenting young women and their children. The organization was founded in 1940 by a local order of nuns, the Good Shepherd Sisters, which owns the buildings out of which the four group homes operate. Three of t

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. GCAPP Second Chance Homes (Georgia)

Basic Program Structure. The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (GCAPP) operates a statewide network of eight maternity group homes, serving 44 teenage mothers and their babies. The GCAPP program began serving teens in 2001 and is funded primarily by the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR). The eight GCAPP homes have

Appendix A: Summary of the Seven Study Programs

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Appendix A: Summary of the Seven Study Programs

This appendix provides a summary of the seven maternity group home programs included in this study. For each program, we describe its basic structure, funding sources and levels, eligibility rules and referral sources, setting and structure of its facilities, staffing patterns, and core program services. Table A.1 presents the general characterist

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. References

Child Welfare League of America. http://www.cwla.org/programs/pregprev/flocritt.htm Accessed February 2005. Cooper, Edith Fairman. Second Chance Homes: Federal Funding, Programs, and Services. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, November 9, 2004. Henshaw, Stanley K. U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics W

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