This Urban Institute research brief offers a set of demographic data and definitions that addresses misconceptions about the reach of U.S. safety net programs. In particular, the analysis distinguishes between “means tested” and universally received benefit programs and those supports that are received monthly compared to those received annually. Programs outlined and reviewed in this report are SNAP; Supplemental Security Income; TANF cash assistance; public or subsidized housing; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; and the Child Care and Development Fund.

The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center will host a webinar on March 6, 2019 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET to describe aspects of a two-generational approach, discuss how two-generation or whole family approaches support anti-trafficking, and show through case studies from organizations in areas besides trafficking how two-generational approaches are connected to adverse childhood experiences.

This Office of Family Assistance-sponsored webinar on February 26, 2019 discussed the complexities of engaging two-parent families in TANF, and featured strategies to improve employment outcomes through relationship education. Representatives from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Insight Policy Research, Public Strategies and the Urban Institute participated.

This issue brief from the Council of State Governments’ National Reentry Resource Center is a self-assessment tool with which programs can assess their delivery of integrated reentry and employment interventions for citizens returning from incarceration. This tool focuses on helping reentry practitioners improve the capacity of their programming and services to reduce the likelihood of their clients’ return to incarceration and to increase long-term job retention.

This Jobs for the Future report profiles the Opportunity Works program, a national effort to create postsecondary education and career pathways for over 2,000 out-of-school and out-of-work youth. The research in this report identifies four strategies for program success: place community-based organizations at the center, locate the “sweet spot” of a guiding model, provide excellent programming, and plan for program sustainability from the beginning.

The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold a webinar on March 6, 2019 between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET to cover findings following the Family Options Study that was conducted for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will review patterns of public assistance receipt, employment, family separations, the well-being of adolescents and young children, adult behavioral health, and predictions for reoccurrence of homelessness. Findings related to the experiences of homelessness in parents and children will also be presented.

The Aspen Institute will livestream the 2019 Aspen Forum on Children and Families on February 26 and February 27, 2019 between 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET. The forum, the second of its kind, convenes policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and philanthropies to identify and discuss “big ideas” for investing in children and families using a two-generation approach.

This fact sheet from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service outlines a description of teen dating violence and offers a set of links to additional publications and resources that the Office of Justice Programs offers.

This 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Survey offers comprehensive data on health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults, including the prevalence of teen dating violence. The survey data in this report is drawn from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and covers 37 state surveys and 19 large urban school district surveys conducted among grades 9–12 students.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produced this factsheet to explain the forms of teen dating violence (i.e., physical and sexual violence, stalking, and psychological aggression) and the extent of this problem. The factsheet also explains the consequences of teen dating violence and offers some guidance on how to prevent these abusive patterns of behavior.