The MOMS Partnership™

Record Description
The New Haven Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership™ is a collaboration of agencies across the city of New Haven, Connecticut that work together to support the well-being of mothers and families living in the city. This partnership created a social media application called “MoMba™,” which connects new mothers locally to promote healthy mother-infant interaction, social connectedness, and community engagement. New mothers may feel socially isolated after giving birth, thereby making it more difficult to form a healthy mother-infant bond with their baby. The application focuses on promotion of social support and capital, maternal-infant attachment, and skill building related to parenting. Representatives of the collaboration shared an overview on how this application harnesses technology to enhance social capital among low-income mothers at the September 2015 OFA Gateway to Opportunity convening.
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Combined Date
2017-12-31T19:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/moms/
Publication Date
2018-01-01
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A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-Poverty Policy

Record Description
This journal article from The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences outlines a plan for utilizing Head Start and career pathways services offered through a community college to create a two- generational human capital approach to serving low-income families. The article outlines policy and funding that would encourage this type of collaboration across anti-poverty programs. It highlights recent research that has shown that this model can work and produce positive outcomes as evidenced by a program in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Combined Date
2018-01-31T19:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
SFS Category
Region
City/County
URL
https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118
Publication Date
2018-02-01
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The Role of Women in Fatherhood Programs

Record Description
On March 21, 2018 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. EST, in recognition of Women’s History Month, this National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse webinar will highlight the important roles that women have played, and continue to play, in the field of responsible fatherhood. Presenters will: discuss how the voices of women have influenced fatherhood research, advocacy, and public policy; explore the role of female professionals in the development and implementation of fatherhood services; and provide tips from female experts on how women can effectively deliver front-line fatherhood services such as case management and group facilitation.
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Combined Date
2018-03-21T08:30:00
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Region
City/County
URL
https://www.fatherhood.gov/content/role-women-fatherhood-programs
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Family Stability and Instability among Low-Income Hispanic Mothers With Young Children

Record Description
This resource, from the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, reviews trends related to family structure for low-income Hispanic mothers in urban areas using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. The data show differences in family life stability, psychosocial risk, parenting stress, co-parenting relationships, and support across foreign-born and U.S.-born Hispanics. Authors conclude that strengths and risks vary based on mothers’ nativity, which should be considered when developing interventions or programs.
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Combined Date
2017-01-31T19:00:00
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Region
City/County
URL
https://www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Family-Stabil…
Publication Date
2017-02-01
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These Approaches Help Young Fathers Leaving the Criminal Justice System

Record Description
This article, published in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, describes programs designed to provide employment support to fathers who are in the criminal justice system. The T.O.R.I. Program and RIDGE Project are described in detail in their approach to provide assistance for reentry, particularly for fathers. The article also discusses grants provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for fathers and resources available to help support employment and parenting of returning young fathers.
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Combined Date
2017-11-26T19:00:00
Source
Region
City/County
URL
https://jjie.org/2017/11/27/these-approaches-help-young-fathers-leaving-the-cri…
Publication Date
2017-11-27
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Innovative Programs

‘Ohana Nui

Mission/Goal of Program
Translated as “extended family” from Hawaiian, `Ohana Nui is Hawaii’s adaptation of the national two-generation approach. Hawaii Department and Human Services (DHS) designed the `Ohana Nui strategy to introduce this approach and capitalize on the multigeneration family structure common in the state. On June 7, 2019, Governor David Y. Ige signed Act 82 (2019) which imbeds this integrated and multigeneration approach into the human services statute. Initiated in 2016, `Ohana Nui seeks to help families thrive by addressing the needs of the whole family, including housing, food and nutrition, health and wellness, education and economic stability, and social capital.
Programs/Services Offered

Hawaii DHS is continuing to implement 'Ohana Nui through a collaborative effort of the Governor, Legislature, multiple state agencies, and community-based service providers.  A Family Assessment Center (FAC) was created to address homelessness for families with children.  The FAC assesses families initially for housing instability and concurrently, addresses the other 'Ohana Nui self-sufficiency categories. The goal of the FAC was to move families from homelessness into semi-permanent or permanent housing within 90 days and with wrap-around supportive services.  The pilot project has been very successful and in February 2019, the FAC was duplicated on Oahu’s Waianae Coast.  The Villages of Maili (VOM) has three service components: (1) Family Assessment Center, (2) Individual Assessment Center, and (3) Bridge housing for households with a Permanent Supportive Housing voucher awaiting placement into permanent housing. In the near future, DHS will open another FAC in Puna on Hawaii Island.  

DHS is also developing a statewide human services IT system that will provide greater access to families and individuals in need of support, effectively creating a no-wrong-door or one-stop-shop entry point for application and determination of eligibility of benefits. The 'Ohana Nui Engineers, who were hand-selected as internal change agents, have been instrumental in creating the foundation for `Ohana Nui by breaking down silos within the department, opening communication pathways, and encouraging connectedness among and between programs and divisions as well as across departments and into the community. 

Hawaii DHS has also convened several community conversations to develop and enhance partnerships to ensure a statewide application of the whole-family principle. Non-profit provider partners will also assist by creating and implementing 'Ohana Nui programs to help streamline services between organizations, simplify the benefits delivery process for families, and ensure the most efficient use of human services resources. Hawaii DHS also engages for-profit partners to support these clients, such as banks who provide financial literacy services and instruction on how money works, and lines of credit. 

Moving forward with 'Ohana Nui, Hawaii DHS will focus on client engagement in shaping the rollout of the IT system and processes to families - metrics to determine effectiveness of 'Ohana Nui - and will draw from lessons learned. Committed to seeing the people of Hawaii thrive, DHS is taking additional measures to ensure the sustainability of this philosophy in the way the department fulfills its mission of meeting families where they dream through `Ohana Nui, the Aloha Spirit, and the DHS strategic plan.

Start Date
Friday, January 1, 2016
Type of Agency/Organization
State TANF Agency
City
Honolulu
State
Hawaii
Geographic Reach
Onesite
Clientele/Population Served
Low-income and/or vulnerable families living in the state of Hawaii
Topics/Subtopics
Family Strengthening
Two-Generation Approaches
Special Populations
TANF Program Administration
URL
https://humanservices.hawaii.gov/blog/ohana-nui-kicks-off/

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Culturally Responsive Relationship Education for Rural Communities

Record Description
The chronic stressors faced by low-income rural families – including unemployment, low wage markets, lack of access to health care and nutritious food, substance abuse, and relative isolation – are issues that culturally responsive healthy marriage and relationship education can help to alleviate. This brief explores the challenges of delivering healthy marriage and relationship education in rural communities and the strategies that one program, Gateway Community Services Organization in the Appalachian region of Kentucky, uses to overcome them. One such strategy is addressing external stressors in tandem with relational concerns, by integrating job coaching with budgeting and financial management skill-building.
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Combined Date
2017-10-31T20:00:00
Source
OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
https://www.healthymarriageandfamilies.org/library-resource/culturally-responsi…
Publication Date
2017-11-01