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How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs

Contents Findings in Brief Background Program Approaches and Implementation Features Research Designs and Samples Five-Year Effects on Use of Employment-Related Services and Costs

Services Integration: Strengthening Offenders and Families, While Promoting Community Health and Safety

Services integration necessitates the development of collaborations across public agencies, or between public and private organizations.

Assessing the Context of Permanency and Reunification in the Foster Care System: Mothers Making a Change Program

1. Introduction and BackgroundMothers Making a Change (MMAC) is a public program serving mothers with a substance abuse problem in Cobb and Douglas counties in Georgia. MMAC came to our attention during a discussion with the Foster Care Unit Manager in the Social Services Section of the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in Atlanta.

Assessing the Context of Permanency and Reunification in the Foster Care System: The New Jersey Natural Parent Support Program

1. Introduction and Background InformationThe Natural Parent Support Program (NPSP) is a publicly funded reunification program provided statewide in New Jersey through private contractors.(1) The program was brought to our attention by the Assistant Director of the Office of Program Support and Permanency.

Final Synthesis Report of Findings from ASPE "Leavers" Grants

Submitted by: Gregory Acs, Pamela Loprestwith Tracy Roberts The Urban Institute 2100 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Federal Project Officer: Matthew Lyon

Impact on Young Children and Their Families 2-Years After Enrollment: Methods: How Did We Study Impacts on Children?

OverviewChapter 1 addressed the question of why it is important to focus on the effects of JOBS programs on children. We turn now to the question of how child impacts were studied in the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study and, more specifically, in the two-year follow-up wave of the study.

Impact on Young Children and Their Families 2-Years After Enrollment: Why Look at Two-Year Impacts of JOBS Welfare-to-Work Programs on Children?

Overview Welfare reform policies are sometimes referred to as "two generational" because not only are the lives of the parents changed by government welfare-to-work programs, but the lives of the children are changed as well. At the most basic level, children's time use patterns and child care patterns are likely to change.

On Their Own Terms: Supporting Kinship Care Outside of TANF and Foster Care

Contents   Characteristics and Service Needs of Kinship Caregivers Alternative Kinship Care Program Models and Services Lessons Learned about Designing and Implementing Alternative Programs Policy Implications