Testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education

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This testimony before Congress, from a Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, highlights the importance of accuracy and integrity in school meal programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Each day, the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs provide meals to more than 30 million children, 72% of whom qualify for free or reduced-price meals due to their economic circumstances. WIC provides nutritious foods, counseling on healthy eating, breastfeeding support, and health care referrals to over 8 million low-income women, infants, and children at nutritional risk.
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2016-01-04T19:00:00
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http://www.cbpp.org/food-assistance/testimony-of-zoe-neuberger-senior-policy-an…

Webinar: Service Options for Relative Caregivers in Child-Only Cases

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The Office of Family Assistance held a webinar on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 from 2:00-3:30 pm EST on Service Options for Relative Caregivers in Child-Only Cases. Today almost half of the national TANF caseload consists of child-only cases, where the child is the only individual in the household receiving cash assistance. In a significant portion of these cases, a relative is caring for the child. There has been limited literature, however, on the strengths, barriers and needs of these children and their relative caregivers. There has also been limited information about the supportive services they may receive through TANF or other human services programs. In this facilitated webinar, presenters provided a descriptive and demographic overview of the relative child-only caseload, as well as the policies and practices that support them. It included examples from a kinship navigator program, as well as a TANF and child welfare system collaboration initiative.

In this webinar participants were able to:

  • Understand the importance and prevalence of, as well as the strengths, barriers, and outcomes related to, relative caregivers and children in TANF child-only cases.
  • Hear experiences and lessons learned from a kinship navigator program that is providing supportive services to relatives and children in child-only cases.
  • Learn about collaborations between TANF and Child Welfare systems to share data and provide services to relative caregivers and children.

For users interested in the transcript of the webinar, the webinar recording is closed-captioned. 

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2016-01-19T09:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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2016-02-17
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Study of Coordination of Tribal TANF and Child Welfare Services: Interim Findings Report

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In 2011, fourteen tribes and tribal organizations received grants from the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) for Coordination of Tribal TANF and Child Welfare Services to Tribal Families. These grants were designed to provide innovative and relevant approaches to coordinating services between TANF and child welfare systems. This report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation summarizes the grantees’ experiences with direct services and interagency coordination thus far. One key finding was that most grantees reported challenges in staffing, engaging project partners, and retaining the highest-risk families. However, all of the grantees reported progress toward their goals.
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2015-09-29T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/study-of-coordination-of-tribal-tanf-and-c…
Publication Date
2015-09-30

Food Insecurity in the Spotlight

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According to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2014, 48.1 million people lived in food-insecure households. Food insecurity is defined as having limited access to food because of lack of money or other resources. Food insecure households are more likely to have children, be headed by a single mother, and live below 130 percent of the poverty threshold. This brief spotlight focuses on food insecurity and the importance of food assistance programs for family well-being.
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2015-09-29T20:00:00
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http://www.clasp.org/issues/work-supports/in-focus/food-insecurity-in-the-spotl…
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2015-09-30

State of the Field Scan #2: Resident Services in Mixed-Income Developments

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The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at Case Western Reserve University published this “State of the Field Scan” that explores how a mixed-income housing approach has transformed deteriorating public housing complexes into safer and more attractive developments for residents from a range of income levels. The report describes how mixed-income developments provide services to improve well-being and self-sufficiency. The authors conducted an online survey with representatives from 60 mixed-income housing developments to gather information on the demographics of the community as well as data on the types of supportive services provided, how developments tracked service use, and the developments' perceived outcomes of services provided.
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2015-08-30T20:00:00
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http://msass.case.edu/new-report-scan-of-the-field-on-resident-services-in-mixe…
Publication Date
2015-08-31

Poor, Unemployed, and Not on Welfare: The Prevalence of "Disconnected Families" by State

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U.S. families living in poverty who survive without either income from a job or from government-sponsored cash assistance are sometimes referred to as “disconnected.” This research brief from Child Trends uses data from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health to quantify the population of children living in disconnected families in each state and to describe the extent to which families access other forms of public assistance. Some findings include: 30 percent of all children lived in disconnected families in 2011-2012; the majority of children in disconnected families lived in a household where someone received some form of public assistance, such as Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program; and the amount of children in disconnected families varied widely by State.
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2015-02-01T19:00:00
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http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-03DisconnectedFamili…
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2015-02-02

Tipping the Scales: The Resilience Game

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In this interactive feature from the Center on the Developing Child, users will learn how the choices our government and service-providers make can help children and their communities as a whole become more resilient in the face of significant challenges.
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2015-08-02T20:00:00
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http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/resilience-game/
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2015-08-03

Data Sharing Between TANF and Child Welfare Agencies

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This Information Memorandum (IM) encourages TANF and child welfare agencies to coordinate and share data on the children, youth, and families they both serve. It reminds TANF programs that they are permitted under federal law to determine their own confidentiality rules and recommends cross-training and information sharing across TANF and child welfare to maximize resources and services, and help families meet the requirements of both programs.
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2015-09-24T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-acf-im-2015-02-data-sharing-between-ta…
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2015-09-25

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Dear Colleague Notice FY 2016 Funding Release

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The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA) recently announced over $3 billion of Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 block grant funding to Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grantees. This Dear Colleague letter includes tables that present State and Tribal funding amounts.
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2015-10-22T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/resource/liheap-dear-colleague-notice-fy-2016-fundin…
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2015-10-23

Policies to Promote Child Health

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This issue of The Future of Children focuses on U.S. child health policy. The articles within the publication present findings such as: a wide range of policies from mental health to family interventions can affect children’s health, child health is generally approached with a crisis-response mentality, limited data exists on cost-effectiveness of child health services, poor and minority children are at the highest risk for health problems, and responsibility for child health is fragmented between families and the various levels of government.

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2015-03-31T20:00:00
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http://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/journals/journal_details…
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2015-04-01