A Critical Resource at Risk: Supporting Kinship Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

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This brief assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on kinship care; it also defines kinship care and the role that kinship caregivers play in their respective families. Ways to support kinship caregivers are illustrated, including increased funding support and temporary changes in licensing requirements.
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2020-04-30T20:00:00
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2020-05-01
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Short-Term Outcomes for Users of the National Domestic Violence Hotline and loveisrespect

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This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report assesses services offered by the National Domestic Violence Hotline and loveisrespect (a help line targeting young people). The report identifies immediate outcomes for individuals who contacted these organizations and then two weeks after the initial contact. The report’s findings can be used to support efforts for monitoring and improving services for those affected by domestic violence and intimate partner violence.
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2020-05-19T20:00:00
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City/County
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2020-05-20
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Executive Skills Coaching Plus Incentives in a Workforce Program

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This report highlights the MyGoals for Employment Success demonstration, an employment coaching program where participants are empowered to set and achieve goals by focusing on executive skills, which are the mental skills used to conduct tasks. These skills include stress tolerance, emotional control, time management, organization, perseverance, and mental flexibility. The use of executive skills affects how participants can navigate the labor market, acquire credentials, and work performance. The report presents findings on how the MyGoals model was operationalized and implemented among participants living in public housing in Baltimore, Maryland and Houston, Texas.
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2020-04-30T20:00:00
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City/County
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2020-05-01
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Executive Function Skills Concepts and Models Websites

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has created three websites that provide training on various Executive Function Skills Concepts and Models: EF Works Library, which houses curated resources for human services programs to learn about and implement an Executive Function-informed approach to service delivery, with a focus on services to adults; Goal, Plan, Do, Review/Revise Online Training Course, a practical research-based framework for setting and achieving goals that draws on insights about executive skills, as well as other aspects of brain and behavioral science; and Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan (WOOP), a science-based mental strategy to find and fulfill wishes, set preferences, and change behavior.

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2020-04-30T20:00:00
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City/County
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2020-05-01
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ACF Family Room Blog: Foster Care as a Support to Families, Not a Substitute for Parents

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In honor of May’s National Foster Care Month, the Associate Commissioner of the Children’s Bureau writes in this blogpost that incorporating family voice into the permanency-planning process and encouraging collaboration between parents and resource parents can help the community, the courts, and related professionals inform a highly supportive child welfare agency culture. The blogpost provides a link to the updated National Foster Care Month website, which includes new resources and outreach tools showing how partnerships between parents and children, agencies, community organizations, and the courts can help support reunification and strengthen family and community connections.
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2020-04-30T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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2020-05-01
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Early Care and Education Supports for Young Children Experiencing Homelessness

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This Child Trends two-brief series highlights information on access to care for homeless children and families. The first brief, Facilitating Access to Early Care and Education for Children Experiencing Homelessness, covers barriers to accessing early care and education among families experiencing homelessness and how states and communities can increase early care and education enrollment of children experiencing homelessness. The second brief, Leveraging Data to Identify Children Experiencing Homelessness, points to the challenges that states and communities encounter when using data to identify children experiencing homelessness who need early care and education.
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2020-05-14T20:00:00
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Region
City/County
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2020-05-15
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Office and Technology Checklist for Telepsychological Services

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This checklist prepared by the American Psychological Association identifies areas for psychological counselors to consider concerning technology and a virtual office environment to utilize with their patients. Several of these considerations could be incorporated for line staff as they work with TANF participants in a virtual capacity.
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2020-03-15T20:00:00
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City/County
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2020-03-16
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Guidelines for Providing Case Management and Disaster Case Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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This tip sheet from Catholic Charities USA®, a large national non-profit organization, offers to its affiliates guidelines that it has developed and implemented to deliver case management during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tips, in conjunction with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include: ways to reduce the spread of COVID-19 at the office, ways to meet clients (as needed) in person, how to provide case management remotely, how to deliver disaster case management, and administrative guidelines for staff compliance.

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2020-03-15T20:00:00
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City/County
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2020-03-16
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Suddenly Virtual: Delivering Workforce Services in the COVID-19 Environment

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This report presents findings of 160 frontline staff and managers in the workforce systems of seven states and summarizes three virtual roundtable discussions with 31 participants who received workforce services. The report identifies where “second responders” or workforce development professionals in the field adapted to a virtual environment, as well as concerns for providing workforce services over the long haul when staff have limited knowledge or training in virtual technology.
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2020-04-14T20:00:00
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Region
City/County
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2020-04-15
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New Guidance on Caseworker Visits via Videoconferencing

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This letter from the Associate Commissioner of the Children’s Bureau provides program instruction and announces changes to allow videoconferencing for monthly caseworker visits as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter also identifies changes in the Child and Family Services Review Program Improvement Plans, Title IV-E Eligibility Reviews, flexibility for conducting child abuse and neglect investigations by state and local child protective services agencies, and other legislative and regulatory flexibilities.
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2020-03-18T20:00:00
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Region
City/County
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2020-03-19
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