Human Services

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Assessing Site Readiness: Considerations about Transitioning to a Privatized Child Welfare System Topical Paper #1 September 2007

This issue brief focuses on minors who are victimized by sex traffickers across the U. S. and is intended to provide practical information about the characteristics and needs of these minors and describe the type of residential programs and facilities currently providing services for this population.

This brief describes the key components of the HHA Partnering Collaborative model, implementation challenges and successes, and the results and implications from the evaluation. [9 PDF pages]

The purpose of this evaluation was to assess the impact of the "Home Health Aide (HHA) Partnering Collaborative"  — a quality improvement initiative implemented at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York  — in three main areas: (1) patient outcomes; (2) patient service use; and (3) aide job perceptions and retention.

Penny Feldman, Ph.D., Miriam Ryvicker, Ph.D., Robert Rosati, Ph.D., Theresa Schwartz, B.A., and Gil Maduro, Ph.D. Visiting Nurse Service of New York Center for Home Care Policy and Research

About this Research Brief

Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Office of Human Services Policy

Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households Principal Investigators: Signe-Mary McKernan and Michael Sherraden The Urban Institute Project began September 2007

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The Home Health Aide Partnering Collaborative is a quality improvement project developed and implemented at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. The primary purpose of the Collaborative was to enhance the quality of work life for home health aides while improving outcomes for home health patients.