Domestic Violence-Informed Child Custody Decision-Making Worksheets

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These worksheets from the Battered Women’s Justice Project are designed to help family court practitioners record, summarize, integrate and synthesize information gathered about abuse; consider implications for family court processes; and ensure that practitioners’ actions are directly responsive to the actual implications of the abuse for each particular family.
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2016-05-31T20:00:00
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http://www.bwjp.org/resource-center/resource-results/child-custody-decision-mak…
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2016-06-01

Incarceration and Child Protective Services Involvement

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The U.S. incarceration rate remains exceptionally high, especially for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, and the incidence of involvement in child protective services (CPS) is also quite high among disadvantaged groups. This confluence of incarceration and CPS involvement may have various impacts for parents, children, and families as a whole. The authors of this Institute for Research on Poverty brief examined data from Wisconsin to demonstrate and describe the overlap between parental incarceration and child CPS involvement, as well as between adolescent CPS involvement and later incarceration in young adulthood.
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2016-07-31T20:00:00
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http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/fastfocus/pdfs/FF24-2016.pdf
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2016-08-01

State Data and Contacts Map

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This map from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) shows the approximate number of people experiencing homelessness, both nationally and statewide, on any given night in 2015.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1700&fn[]=3100&fn[]=7000&fn[]=…
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2016-01-01

The Family Options Study: Short-term impacts and special topics on the special service needs of homeless families

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) describes the Family Options Study, which is a random assignment study examining the impact of housing and services for homeless families in twelve communities across the United States. Topics covered include the study design, findings from the first 18 months, and the services needs of the families involved in the study.

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2016-06-02T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-03

Child Poverty Higher and More Persistent in Rural America

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This brief from the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy examines the persistence of high child poverty rates (20 percent or greater) between 1980 and 2010, indicates that the incidence of high child poverty is growing nationwide, and shows that it is most prevalent in rural America. Approximately 28 percent of all rural children live in persistently poor counties, compared to 13 percent of urban children. In 1980, 24 percent of urban counties and 43 percent of rural counties had high child poverty rates. These rates rose to 32 and 56 percent respectively by 1990, but had returned to 1980 levels by 2000. However, the 2010 rates were much higher, indicating that 47 percent of urban counties and 64 percent of rural counties were characterized by high child poverty rates.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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http://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=carsey
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2016-01-01

Rural America At-a-Glance, 2015 Edition

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In 2014, the pace of employment growth in rural areas increased after several years of stagnation. However, rural employment remains below pre-recession levels, and rural areas are continuing to experience population loss, higher rates of poverty, and lower educational attainment than their urban counterparts. This brief from the U.S. Department of Agriculture examines recent economic and employment trends in rural America.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1952235/eib145.pdf
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2016-01-01

Severe deprivation: What we know and don't know about deep poverty in the United States

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) includes the opening remarks and first plenary session on the second day of the conference. Plenary panelists included academics, researchers, and policymakers. The discussion centered around what is known about Americans living in deep poverty.

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2016-06-01T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-02

Poor, unemployed, and without cash assistance: Characteristics, circumstances, and survival strategies of disconnected families

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency contains a breakout session focusing on disconnected families--those in which adults are neither working nor receiving cash assistance. Panelists discussed the characteristics and circumstances of these families and barriers they face to self-sufficiency.

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2016-06-01T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-02

Stability-instability of low-income Hispanics?: Findings from the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) reviews three papers exploring the stability or instability of Hispanic families, including household composition, family structure changes, and income instability.

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2016-05-31T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-01

Special Collection: Navigating the Civil Legal System: Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Their Advocates, and Legal Professionals

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Survivors of domestic violence can face various legal issues, such as obtaining protection orders against abusers, filing for divorce, receiving child support, and determining custody and visitation rights for minor children. This collection, from the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, provides resources to help survivors, advocates, and legal professionals who are dealing with these types of issues.
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2015-11-30T19:00:00
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https://vawnet.org/sc/navigating-civil-legal-system-resources-survivors-domesti…
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2015-12-01