The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) helps low-income parents pay for child care so that they are able to go to work or school. In 2015, 26 percent of children under the age of six were Hispanic/Latino. Latinos tend to have…

The 2016 FEMA Youth Preparedness Catalog compiles programs and possible partnerships to get involved with or to support, along with providing curricula and resources for developing youth preparedness programs. These youth-tailored programs range…

Published in Indian Country Today Media Network by the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, this report addresses intergenerational trauma among American Indians at its core. The author addresses recent evidence on how trauma could…

When homeless youth cannot access necessary legal services, their housing stability, employment, healthcare, and other services may be negatively impacted. This article from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness summarizes the recent Homeless…

Based on provisions in the Affordable Care Act, approximately 180,000 youth who have aged out of the foster care system are eligible for extended health care coverage through age 26. However, only 13 states have made Medicaid coverage available to…

This report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is one in a series of reports to be produced from the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project, which seeks to use a behavioral economics lens to examine…

This Urban Institute study offers findings on how food insecurity impacts youth (ages 10 to 17), based on interviews and case studies of youth who participated in 20 focus groups in 10 communities. Discussion covers not only the data about food…

The U.S. incarceration rate remains exceptionally high, especially for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, and the incidence of involvement in child protective services (CPS) is also quite high among disadvantaged groups. This confluence of…

This issue brief explores what is currently known about intergenerational patterns of child maltreatment and implications for further research. The brief notes that there is limited research on intergenerational child maltreatment, but existing…

The Office of Family Assistance developed this guide to help state TANF agencies recognize the important role they have in identifying and serving families experiencing homelessness and families at risk of homelessness. It is intended to help…