Child Welfare

By: John L. Czajka Cara Olsen Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Washington, D.C. April 18, 2000 Submitted to:Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Policy changes may have both positive and negative effects on programs that are not the primary target of the policy. Policymakers hope that the potential negative effects are minimized and do not outweigh the positive effects on the target program as well as on other programs.

Prepared by: Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Center for Social Services Research, University of California, Berkeley School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill American Institutes for Research, Prime Contractor

A Summary of a Meeting Attended by Grantees of the Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives Project and the STATES Initiative/Family Support America Project Saint Paul, February 3 & 4, 2000

Contents TANF Policies Summary of Key Findings

AcknowledgmentsThis report, and its earlier editions, would not have been possible without the substantial support of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics whose member agencies provided data and carefully reviewed relevant sections.

Margo Rosenbach Kimball Lewis Brian Quinn Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 450G Washington, DC 20201 Project Officer: Laura Feig Radel