The HomeRebuilders project was an ambitious effort to test a major reform of the foster care system in New York City. In 1993, the New York State Department of Social Services (DSS) and the New York City Child Welfare Administration began testing a new approach to the financing of services to foster children and their birth families based on concepts from managed care.
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Advanced SearchAid to Families with Dependent Children The Baseline
Introduction The term “welfare” has long been identified with the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. While the AFDC program was an important component of the safety net for low-income families with children, there was a near universal consensus that the program contained serious flaws. In August 1996, the Personal Responsi
The Cash and Counseling Demonstration: An Experiment in Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Services
This article appeared in the American Rehabilitation (Volume 24, Number 3, pp27-30). [14 PDF pages]
Iowa's Limited Benefit Plan
Authors: Thomas M. Fraker Lucia A. Nixon Jan L. Losby Carol S. Prindle John F. Else Submitted to: Iowa Department of Human Services Division of Economic Assistance
Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies to Address Domestic Violence: The Experiences of Five Communities
Laudan Y. Aron and Krista K. Olson The Urban Institute March 1997
Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence in Six Communities: Beyond the Justice System
by Sandra J. Clark, Martha R. Burt, Margaret M. Schulte and Karen Maguire of the Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, October, 1996.
Eldercare: The Impact of Family Caregivers' Employment on Formal and Informal Helper Hours
The 1989 National Long Term Care Survey is the first nationally representative survey to collect data on weekly hours of assistance received by ADL and/or IADL disabled elders living in the community by individual caregivers, both formal and informal.
Review of Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs
A REVIEW OF FAMILY PRESERVATION AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION PROGRAMS By Westat, Inc. in association with James Bell Associates, Inc., and The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago May 30, 1995 For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs
by Julia H. Littell and John R. Schuerman Westat, Inc., in association with James Bell Associates, and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. A part of the National Evaluation of Family Preservation Servcies For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services