The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teamed with the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to present a webinar on March 27, 2019 on current research, as well as outreach and programming field practices that are responsive to fathers’ needs. Presenters included faculty from the University of Wisconsin’s School of Social Work and practitioners from the Indianhead Community Action Agency (serving Northwestern Wisconsin), the Parenting Network of Milwaukee, and the City of Milwaukee Health Department Men’s Health Unit.

This MDRC brief describes how behavioral strategies were used to encourage parents to make child support payments and to explain child support orders once issued. The Start Smart initiative guides eligible noncustodial parents on income withholding mechanisms to make child support payments and for making these payments before the income withholding starts.

This blog post from the Children's Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect identifies programs and resources that foster safe and stable environments for children and their families. The post highlights an initiative funded under the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention program, as well as the 2019 Prevention Resource Guide that includes six protective factors promoting child well-being.

Casey Family Programs developed and hosts this interactive mapping tool designed to identify community aspects that correlate with safe children and strong families. It utilizes current U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey data and shows the following data indicators by state, county, and zip code: vacant housing levels, housing cost burden, resident turnover, percentage of single-mother families, child-to-adult ratio, percentage of persons 65 years old or older, unemployment rate, percentage of adults with a high school diploma, and poverty rate, as well as general demographics, such as population, racial breakdown of the population, and percentage of persons who are foreign born.

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report identifies a research design plan that will be used in interviewing up to 140 participants from among 27 HPOG 2.0 grantees across the country. The interviews will provide insights about participants’ motivations, decision making, expectations, and experiences.

MDRC’s new web series entitled “In Practice: Lessons for and from Practitioners” includes tips, tools, and stories based on program collaborations. This first blog post focuses on key questions that program managers should ask as they set benchmarks that provide short-term goals to measure progress towards longer-term goals integral to service delivery.

This Urban Institute study examines the effect of reinstating SNAP work-related time limits in Kentucky on a county-by-county basis. The review covers SNAP participation of able-bodied adults without dependents and reviews caseload data from January 2017 to September 2018.

The Jump$tart Coalition is comprised of more than 100 national organizations and 51 state coalitions united by the common goal of advancing youth financial literacy. The Coalition promotes Financial Literacy Month to its network of partners with a set of activities each April that are designed to recognize our nation’s achievement in financial literacy advancement and highlight financial education resources, tools, and efforts to support financial literacy.

This Prosperity Now blog post identifies Federal sources of funding (TANF, the former Workforce Investment Act, and the Community Development Block Grant program) that support microenterprise. A total of 28 states in 2014 provided support for microenterprise from one Federal source of funding, 10 states from two sources, and 2 states utilized all three Federal programs.