Doing Things Differently: Supporting Families During National Child Abuse Prevention Month

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April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. The 2024 theme is "Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change,” which was designed to encourage Administration of Children and Families (ACF) partners to continue building communities that ensure families have access to fundamental supports, such as housing, food, transportation, and child care. This ACF resource highlights supporting families with a holistic perspective that recognizes the interdependence between parents and children, and offers outreach materials.

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2024-04-04T00:00:00
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2024-04-04
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In Statewide Survey, New Mexicans Identify Barriers Accessing Vital Services

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The 100% New Mexico Initiative is a community-led, data-driven approach to ensure all New Mexicans have access to vital services, including job training, transportation, and parent supports. Local communities are guided by a seven-step process to survey community members, assess results, and target evidence-informed solutions to resolve barriers to all community members accessing vital services. This Chapin Hall research brief series describes the baseline results from 6,549 local community members from 11 counties about barriers they face accessing vital services.  

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2024-04-01T00:00:00
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2024-04-01
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The Predictive Power of Measures of Self-Regulation Skills Among Adults with Low Incomes

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This Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) report examines the link between measures of self-regulation skills and longer-term outcomes among adults with low incomes. OPRE drew on the conceptualization of self-regulation skills from the Goal-Oriented Adult Learning in Self-Sufficiency (GOALS) project and used data from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations. Using both sets of data, OPRE examined the predictive power of self-regulation measures by examining their link to future outcomes such as earnings and employment one year later.

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2024-04-05T00:00:00
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2024-04-05
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FY24 On-Site Technical Assistance Application

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The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) is offering On-Site Technical Assistance (TA) to strengthen, develop, and/or expand the capacity of tribal and native advocacy programs and communities' responses to intimate partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, and sex trafficking. The NIWRC staff will collaborate with each selected On-Site TA recipient to create an agenda specific to their program and tribal community. The NIWRC TA application is due April 22, 2024.

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2024-04-22T00:00:00
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2024-04-22
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U.S. Department of Labor to Award Up to $67.1M to Help Youth, Young Adults with Disabilities Overcome Obstacles to Employment

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On April 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the award of $10.5 million to fund the first year of four, five-year cooperative agreements aimed at developing strategies to assist youth and young adults with disabilities — particularly in underserved communities — in successfully transitioning into the workforce. This DOL news releasee announces that Connecticut DOL, Kansas Department of Commerce, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, and the New York DOL received the awards.

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2024-04-02T00:00:00
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2024-04-02
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Experts by Experience: How Engaging People with Lived Experience Can Improve Social Services

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The application of lived experience to various aspects of program and policy development is ascendant in the social sector, but the evidence base hasn’t caught up. This Center for Behavioral Design and Social Justice report examines the benefits of including people with social service systems experience in designing, implementing and evaluating policies and programs. It highlights the role of “intersectional professionals” — individuals who have both personal and professional experience with the child welfare, juvenile justice and other human service systems.

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2024-01-01T00:00:00
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2024-01-01
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Lessons from a Statewide Transfer Grant Program

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More than half of community college students nationwide intend to pursue a four-year degree; however, in Texas only one in four community college students transfer to four-year institutions successfully. To improve transfer rates and, ultimately, bachelor’s degree attainment, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) launched the Texas Transfer Grant Pilot Program with money provided by the U.S. Department of Education’s Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund. MDRC evaluated the pilot program to build evidence about its efficacy and help inform future THECB decisions about the program. This brief provides findings about the pilot program’s impact on students’ enrollment and academic outcomes at Texas four-year institutions during the fall 2022 and spring 2023 semesters—two semesters after students initially received the fall 2022 transfer grant.

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2024-03-01T00:00:00
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2024-03-01
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Design and Analysis Plan for the Impact Study of Work Success

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Work Success is a novel program for adults with low incomes. It combines intensive group and individual coaching with workshops on topics such as resume writing, job search strategies, and interviewing skills. The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is sponsoring an evaluation of Work Success as part of the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies Project. Mathematica is conducting this evaluation to explore the program’s implementation and its impact on the well-being of study participants. This OPRE report describes the design and analysis plan for the impact study of Work Success. It discusses employment coaching and explains why Work Success is expected to affect participants’ employment and economic security.

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2024-03-26T00:00:00
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2024-03-26
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Shedding Light on Native American Households’ Financial Stress

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While the financial security of U.S. households is frequently studied, comparatively little research focuses on the economics of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) households specifically. The Center for Indian Country Development is helping to fill this gap with new analysis of a key annual survey of American households: the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Household Economics and Decision-making (SHED). This Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis resource highlights:

  • Statistical techniques that enable an AIAN-focus;
  • Results detailing AIAN respondents’ financial security; and
  • Persistent barriers to economic opportunity for AIAN households.
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2024-03-20T00:00:00
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2024-03-20
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Ways To Reduce Intergenerational Poverty

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In 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on reducing intergenerational poverty. Jesse Rothstein, a member of the committee that developed the report, is on the Institute for Research on Poverty’s newest podcast episode to share the research and findings on several of the key drivers of intergenerational poverty. In this episode, Rothstein discusses policy approaches that may help to interrupt the poverty cycle and why that matters.

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2024-03-19T00:00:00
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2024-03-19
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