Measuring Client Well-Being: A Toolkit for Counties and Community-Based Organizations

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This toolkit, created through Colorado’s Work Support Strategies (WSS) grant, is designed to help county and community-based organizations define, measure, and use well-being metrics to improve services and achieve outcomes. It includes a “how to” section that organizations can follow to change their practices and measure client outcomes rather than program outputs.
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Posting Date
Combined Date
2016-03-31T20:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
SFS Category
SFS Sites
Region
City/County
URL
http://outcomes.ascend.aspeninstitute.org/resource/measuring-client-well-toolki…
Publication Date
2016-04-01

Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children: Early Implementation Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Evaluation

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This early implementation report by the Institute for Research on Poverty and Mathematica Policy Research provides interim findings from the Office of Child Support Enforcement’s (OCSE) Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Project (CSPED), which began in Fall 2012 and ends in September 2017. The project is tracking activity and outcomes of CSPED programs in eight states. Child Support agencies in each state are providing enhanced child support services, employment assistance, parenting education, and case management services for noncustodial parents who experience difficulty meeting their child support obligations. The report looks at the first two years of CSPED, which consisted of a planning year and one year of program operations.
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Combined Date
2015-08-31T20:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
SFS Category
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/csped/pdfs/CSPEDInterImpl2015%20Compl…
Publication Date
2015-09-01

Prevalence and experiences: Intimate partner violence prevalence and experiences among healthy relationship program target populations

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This paper summarizes research on the prevalence and experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among the target populations for adult healthy relationship programs. The purpose is to provide practitioners with information on their program populations to support their efforts in addressing program participants’ experiences with IPV.

This is the first in a series of papers from the Responding to Intimate Violence in Relationship Programs (RIViR) project, which aims to understand how to best identify and address IPV in the context of healthy relationship programming. (author abstract)

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2016-05-09T20:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/prevalence-experiences-intimate-partner-vi…
Publication Date
2016-05-10

Disagreement in Parental Reports of Father Involvement

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Children benefit from having involved fathers, but it can be difficult to quantify a father’s level of involvement. This study compares the amount of father involvement reported by mothers with what the fathers themselves report. The researchers used data from 113 fathers and 126 mothers to assess father involvement, and they found that fathers reported significantly higher levels of involvement than mothers. When mothers reported a more positive relationship with fathers, the discrepancy in reported levels of involvement was smaller, while single mothers reported a greater level of discrepancy than married mothers. The authors emphasized the importance of obtaining reports of father involvement directly from fathers.

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2015-12-31T19:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/04/18/0192513X16644639.abstract
Publication Date
2016-01-01

CLASP DataFinder

Record Description
The DataFinder from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) provides demographic information as well as administrative data on programs that affect low-income people and families. Users can create and download custom tables that present a national picture, a state picture or a comparative look at states and communities.
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Posting Date
Combined Date
2016-05-16T20:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.clasp.org/data

Fulfilling the Promise, Serving the Need: Advancing College Opportunity for Low-Income Students

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This report from the U.S. Department of Education highlights efforts of colleges and universities to promote access, opportunity, and success for low-income students. The good news is that many institutions are increasing college access for low income students and providing them with the aid and support they need, but the report serves as a call to action for other institutions to increase access and improve completion rates of Pell Grant recipients.
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Posting Date
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2016-02-29T19:00:00
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Region
City/County
URL
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/focus/advancing-college-opportunity.pdf
Publication Date
2016-03-01

Addressing Challenges in Community-Based Service Coordination: Breaking Down Silos to Promote Economic Opportunity

Record Description
This brief from MDRC is the second in a series documenting the implementation of an economic mobility initiative by New York City’s Change Capital Fund (CCF). CCF is a consortium of New York City donors formed to invest in local nonprofits undertaking data-driven anti-poverty strategies that integrate housing, education, and employment services. This brief describes two challenges to service coordination and considers the various ways grantees have responded to those difficulties.
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2016-04-30T20:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.mdrc.org/publication/addressing-challenges-community-based-service-c…
Publication Date
2016-05-01

The National Research Conference on Early Childhood

The Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) National Research Conference on Early Childhood will be held July 11-13, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s conference, formerly known as Head Start’s National Research Conference on Early Childhood, is Increasing access to high quality early care and education: Building the evidence base for policy and practice.

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Event
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Source
Partner Resources
Sponsor
Administration for Children and Families
Location
Washington, D.C.
Web Url
http://www.rcec2016.net/
National/International
National
Topics/Subtopics
Supportive Services
Child Care
Special Populations
Event Date
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Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 17-15: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2016

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This guidance letter, developed by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, provides relevant information about Program Year 2016 for States and outlying areas.

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Combined Date
2016-03-31T20:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=8938
Publication Date
2016-04-01

Community College and Industry Partnerships

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This issue brief by Louis Soares provides examples of Community College and Industry Partnerships, examines their role in changing community college missions and practices, looks at key success factors and activities, and provides general recommendations for project success.
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2009-12-31T19:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://www2.ed.gov/PDFDocs/college-completion/02-community-college-and-industry…
Publication Date
2010-01-01