The Office of Child Care (OCC) works with Child Care Development Funds grantees to ensure that all program funds are used to the benefit of eligible children and families. This OCC factsheet highlights their efforts to strengthen program…

The Government Accountability Office convened a forum earlier this year to investigate policy options to assist adults with disabilities with a current or past work history to improve their participation in the labor market. This report includes…

This is part of a new series of issue briefs from the Urban Institute and Georgetown University, and offers information for utilizing Federal expenditures to reduce high unemployment over the next three to five years. High unemployment can lead…

This brief is from Public/Private Ventures and the third in the GroundWork series, which summarizes evidence on a variety of policy topics to provide a foundation for future work. The brief provides an overview of promising strategies for…

From Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, this report describes the results of a study using data to better understand the need for employment-related services and supports among youth in foster care and how a community-based employment…

From Public/Private Ventures, this report includes information on serving youth across six cities. Researchers studied 200 programs to better understand how they promote sustained participation among older youth. The resulting data indicated that…

Chapin Hall and the Urban Institute hosted this Thursday’s Child policy forum on how large public agencies as well as smaller community-based organizations can best meet the needs of their target populations and improve service delivery. Recent…

The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) hosted a Technical Assistance Webinar, “Beyond the Protocol: Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Intervention” on April 20, 2010. This webinar discussed issues including: definitions of…

The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative is an initiative through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty and distressed housing into mixed-income communities. From the Urban Institute,…

The AfterZones initiative is a program out of Providence, Rhode Island to improve after school care city-wide. This model is designed to service children in a neighborhood “campus” structure, and allows youth to travel between different sites…