This map from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) shows the approximate number of people experiencing homelessness, both nationally and statewide, on any given night in 2015.

The National Hire Network Clearinghouse provides contact information for state-specific government agencies and community-based organizations that can assist people who have criminal records. Assistance may include providing job-related and legal…

Practitioners and policymakers can use this database from Youth.gov to find information and resources about relevant federal programs, evidence-based and promising practices, and a range of support services for young parents and children…

In 2014, the pace of employment growth in rural areas increased after several years of stagnation. However, rural employment remains below pre-recession levels, and rural areas are continuing to experience population loss, higher rates of poverty,…

This brief from the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy examines the persistence of high child poverty rates (20 percent or greater) between 1980 and 2010, indicates that the incidence of high child poverty is growing…

Many programs attempting to improve employment outcomes for low-income adults use financial incentives or sanctions to motivate participants to obtain and/or retain a job. This brief describes the employment and earnings impacts of 12…

The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families published this 2016 research brief to familiarize people with the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and how the abuse affects exposed children across the country. The brief…

This document by the American Institute for Research offers a process and curriculum for adopting organizational trauma-informed care to support organizations serving vulnerable children, adults, and families to become trauma-informed. The framework…

In this presentation, Stephanie M. Jones, Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, describes a new intervention that links the science of brain development with…

With many soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the late 2000s, the risk of homelessness significantly increased for veterans. The Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, and Labor collaborated to implement…