Finances, family, materials, and time: Career pathways participants' perceived challenges

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This brief describes the perceived challenges of 84 study participants in career pathways program evaluated in the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) study. In these interviews, respondents discussed in detail what they viewed as the difficulties they currently experience in the program, as well as challenges they foresaw in the future as they moved along a career pathway. As in prior research, financial challenges, academic worries, and family and other demands on their time were the most commonly articulated concerns, even though these participants were in programs offering a wide range of supports. This brief is one in a series of three focusing on participants’ experiences, including their motivations to participate and supports received. (author introduction)

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2016-03-27T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/finances-family-materials-and-time-career-…
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2016-03-28

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Fourteenth Report to Congress

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The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2015 report on Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), provides indicators and risk factors through 2012 for most indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in August 1996. As directed by the Welfare Indicators Act, the report focuses on benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, formerly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly Food Stamps); and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
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2015-09-21T20:00:00
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https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/welfare-indicators-and-risk-factors-fourteenth-repo…
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2015-09-22

The State of Grandfamilies in America

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This report from Generations United identifies key state laws and policies specifically designed to address barriers and better support grandparents and other relatives raising children. According to the report, almost 65 percent of children living in grandfamilies, or kinship care, are in states that have half or fewer of these key laws and policies. The report provides recommendations to aid the development of supportive federal and State policies and services for grandfamilies.
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2014-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.gu.org/RESOURCES/Publications/TheStateofGrandfamiliesinAmerica2015.a…
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2015-01-01

How Economic Hardship Gets Inside the Family

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In this four-minute video from the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, sociologist Katherine Jewsbury Conger discusses how poverty and economic hardship impact parents and their children. She notes that early childhood programs are important avenues for parents living in poverty to make connections to their communities.
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2016-01-31T19:00:00
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http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/video/how-economic-hardship-gets-inside-family
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2016-02-01

The Administration for Children & Families Common Framework for Research and Evaluation

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This framework outlines how various types of research and evaluation generate information and answer empirical questions related to the human services provided by the Administration for Children and Families. The framework is designed to 1) organize and guide ACF’s decisions about investments in research and evaluation, and 2) provide clarification for potential grantees and contractors about the justifications for, and evidence expected from, each type of study, as well as relevant aspects of research design that contribute to high-quality evidence.
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2016-03-15T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/the-administration-for-children-families-c…
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2016-03-16

Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 14-15: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Requirements for Unified and Combined State Plans

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This guidance, developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL), Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), Agriculture (USDA), and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), provides an overview of the Administration's priorities in relation to the WIOA planning requirements, explains the planning requirements where necessary, and instructs States regarding submission procedures.
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2016-02-29T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=3363
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2016-03-01

Employer Engagement Toolkit: From Placement to Partners

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This toolkit from Jobs for the Future is a guide for training providers, workforce development organizations, educational institutions, and community-based organizations. The focus is on the integration of employer engagement into the core decision making of programs. The toolkit offers strategies to increase the number of ways employers can participate in program design and development, and is designed to help workforce development organizations and educational institutions develop relationships with employers.
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2015-09-30T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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http://www.jff.org/initiatives/greenways/employer-engagement-toolkit-placement-…
Publication Date
2015-10-01

Colorado Senate Bill Number Sb15-012: Concerning the Treatment of Child Support for Purposes of the Colorado Works Program

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This bill, passed by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado and signed into law by the Governor on June 5, 2015, details the child-support pass through as it relates to the Colorado Works program.
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2015-05-31T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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SFS Sites
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http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2015A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/61D8E80EEB1B062…
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2015-06-01

IDEO Design Kit

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This kit, developed by IDEO, provides tools to help programs engage in human-centered design. Human-centered design is a creative approach to problem solving that starts by learning directly from the people you’re designing for in order to build empathy for them and a deep understanding of their needs to ensure that your solutions suit their needs. The kit includes a field guide, facilitators guide, and case studies. IDEO also offers courses in human-centered design.
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2016-03-27T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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http://www.designkit.org/

Using existing large-scale data to study early care and education among Hispanics: Search and decision-making

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New research is needed to learn more about how, when, and why Latino parents access certain early childhood programs and services, and not others. As highlighted in this brief series, numerous existing large-scale data sets offer potentially valuable information about the ECE experiences of Hispanic populations. This brief on Latino child care search and decision-making focuses in particular on what these studies have to offer about how Hispanic families seek out and select ECE settings. Researchers can use this review and associated data tables to identify the study/studies, samples, and variables most appropriate for their research questions. (author abstract)

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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.childtrends.org/?publications=using-existing-large-scale-data-to-stu…
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2016-01-01