Can a Redesigned Child Support System Do Better?

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This Institute for Research on Poverty brief is a summary of an impact and benefit-cost analysis of the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Program (CSPED). Participating parents were given additional employment services to support economic self-sufficiency with the goal of increasing child support compliance. Analysis findings concluded that satisfaction with the child support system improved substantially for noncustodial parents when a customized approach was utilized; there were modest gains in child support enforcement compliance, earnings, and parenting. While short-term implementation costs outweighed benefits, it was expected that there would be more benefits than costs in the longer term.
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2019-07-30T20:00:00
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https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/can-a-redesigned-child-support-system-do-bett…
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2019-07-31
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What Do We Know About the Return on Investment in Preventing Child Maltreatment?

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This Casey Family Programs research to practice brief provides analysis about the costs of child maltreatment and the financial benefit of prevention and early intervention services. The study identifies the costs for children who experience abuse or neglect, including the risk of involvement with the criminal justice system, developmental delays, substance abuse challenges, low academic achievement, delinquency, and teen pregnancy, as well as diminished wages and future productivity. It also offers brief summaries of child maltreatment prevention and intervention programs and return on investment for these programs with Title IV-E funds directed by the Family First Prevention Services Act.
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2019-06-14T20:00:00
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https://caseyfamilypro-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/media/TS_Research-return-on-inve…
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2019-06-15
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The Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration: Implementation and Early Impacts of the Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration

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This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report examines the Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (MSTED) program that is designed to increase employment outcomes for persons who receive benefits for more than six months under the state’s Minnesota Family Investment Program (Minnesota’s TANF program). This implementation study looked at the outcomes from November 2014 to December 2016 in three counties to identify gains in employment and earnings, reduced receipt of public assistance, and overall well-being. The study also analyzed how participants and employers experienced the program in terms of engagement and retention.
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2019-08-21T20:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/the-subsidized-transitional-employment-de…
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2019-08-22
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Webinar: Postsecondary Success for Justice-Involved Individuals

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ASCEND at the Aspen Institute will host a webinar on August 28, 2019 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the implementation of the Restoring Education and Learning (REAL) Act. The REAL Act restores Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated individuals, so that they can pursue postsecondary education. ASCEND representatives will moderate this webinar, which will feature presentations by representatives from the College and Community Fellowship, Vera Institute of Justice, and New York City Housing Authority.
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2019-08-28T12:00:00
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https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/webinar-postsecondary-success-for-justice-inv…
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2019-08-28
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Measuring What Matters: Shifting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to an Outcome-Based Model

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This National Skills Coalition brief offers guidance on how TANF and other public assistance programs could shift emphasis to skills and employment outcomes, like those used by WIOA common measures, rather than a procedural process that measures the work participation rate. WIOA identifies individuals facing barriers to entering the labor market. This brief identifies ways to enhance coordination between TANF and WIOA systems by addressing common purposes for increasing access to employment and education and training opportunities to support these individuals.
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2019-06-14T20:00:00
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https://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/resources/publications/file/NSC-TANF-FI…
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2019-06-15
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Variations in the Use of Kinship Diversion Among Child Welfare Agencies

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This research-to-practice brief identifies use of kinship diversion practices at child welfare agencies. Kinship diversion, used as an alternative to foster care, places children with relatives when there are allegations of child abuse and neglect. The brief describes interviews with agency administrators and child welfare advocates and draws upon estimates of kinship diversion using the Kinship Diversion Estimation Tool, an online survey of child welfare workers.
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2019-06-27T20:00:00
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https://www.childtrends.org/publications/variations-use-kinship-diversion-among…
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2019-06-28
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Should Place-Based Jobs Policies Be Used to Help Distressed Communities?

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This Upjohn Institute working paper reviews how place-based jobs policies should target distressed areas and focus on firms that have high-multipliers (industries with high job growth potential beyond just the individual firm creating jobs). The analysis also points out how jobs policies should rely less on tax incentives and more on customized public services, such as infrastructure improvements to the distressed area, local education, and job training to serve distressed community residents.
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2019-07-30T20:00:00
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https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1326&context=up_working…
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2019-07-31
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Child and Family Development Research - Fiscal Year 2018

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This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation literature survey identifies research conducted by the Division of Child and Family Development in fiscal year 2018. It covers projects that examine early childhood research, child care, Head Start and Early Head Start, child welfare, human trafficking, and cultural diversity.
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2019-08-07T20:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/child-and-family-development-research-2018
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2019-08-08
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ACF Family Room Blog: Highlights and Milestones of the Native American Programs Act

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This blogpost by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Affairs states that grant funded programs under the Administration for Native Americans support 187 projects. Program areas include the Social and Economic Development Strategies grant program, the Esther Martinez Immersion program, the Native Language Preservation and Maintenance program that supports survival of Native American languages and education, and the Environmental Regulatory Enhancement program that builds capacities of native organizations to protect tribes’ natural environments.
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2019-08-06T20:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/blog/2019/08/highlights-and-milestones-of-the-native-am…
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2019-08-07
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Call for Proposals: Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)

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The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is accepting proposals for individual presentations, full conference sessions, and roundtables for the Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) to be held in Washington, D.C. on May 27-29, 2020. Panels will cover the following topics: TANF Programs, Policies, and Populations; Employment and Mobility in the Labor Market; Youth Well-Being and the Transition to Adulthood; Strengthening Families, Fatherhood, Marriages, and Relationships; Evaluating Social Programs, Building Evidence, and Using Data; and Approaches to Alleviate Poverty and Expand Opportunity. Presentations will cover both basic and applied research targeted to a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, state and local administrators, and policymakers. The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to September 6, 2019.

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2019-09-05T20:00:00
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http://recsconference.net/proposals.htm
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2019-09-06
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