Call for Proposals: Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)

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The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is accepting proposals for individual presentations, full conference sessions, and roundtables for the Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) to be held in Washington, D.C. on May 27-29, 2020. Panels will cover the following topics: TANF Programs, Policies, and Populations; Employment and Mobility in the Labor Market; Youth Well-Being and the Transition to Adulthood; Strengthening Families, Fatherhood, Marriages, and Relationships; Evaluating Social Programs, Building Evidence, and Using Data; and Approaches to Alleviate Poverty and Expand Opportunity. Presentations will cover both basic and applied research targeted to a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, state and local administrators, and policymakers. The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to September 6, 2019.

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2019-09-05T20:00:00
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http://recsconference.net/proposals.htm
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2019-09-06
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Can Antipoverty Policies Change Neighborhood Outcomes in the Long Run?

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This Upjohn Institute policy brief analyzes the long-run outcomes of Earned Income Tax Credit and welfare time limits to increase employment and reduce public assistance; the brief also reviews the impact of anti-poverty programs on geographical locations where participants live. The research and analysis examine these anti-poverty programs and whether they have made a difference not only for individual households and participants, but also for disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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2019-04-30T20:00:00
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City/County
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https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=up_policyb…
Publication Date
2019-05-01
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Wisconsin Poverty Report Update: Why Isn’t the Economy Doing More to Improve Poverty in Wisconsin?

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The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will host a webinar on July 17, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. CT to discuss the 11th Annual Wisconsin Poverty Report. Report findings will be presented, including why the poverty level in Wisconsin has not changed since the end of the Great Recession despite an overall improvement in the statewide economy.
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2019-07-17T10:00:00
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City/County
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http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/137701
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2019-07-17
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National Welfare Data

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This comprehensive dataset from the University of Kentucky’s Center for Poverty Research profiles state-level data on every state, reflecting numbers, rates, amounts, and/or percentages of population; employed and unemployed individuals; three food insecurity levels; personal income; low-income uninsured children; and recipients receiving workers’ compensation, AFDC/TANF, SNAP, SSI, Medicaid, and EITC credits from 1980 to 2017. This dataset was updated in May 2019 to reflect 2017 in this longitudinal data collection that assembles information from multiple sources into one place.
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2019-04-30T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://ukcpr.org/resources/national-welfare-data
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2019-05-01
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National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics 2019 Workshop

The National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics will hold its bi-annual workshop on July 28 to July 31, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This workshop will feature examples of rigorous research methods used to evaluate programs and highlight opportunities to use administrative data for decision making. Additionally, there will be presentations on child support, early childhood education, child care, foster care, substance abuse, trauma-informed services, coaching, reentry service coordination, behavior interventions, workforce programs including SNAP E&T, career pathways, and other topics.
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Partner Resources
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National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics
Location
Omni Royal Orleans
621 St. Louis Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Web Url
https://nawrs.org/nawrs-2019-workshop-registration/
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Employment
Education and Training
Family Strengthening
Asset Building
Supportive Services
Special Populations
TANF Program Administration
TANF Policy and Legislation
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OFA Releases CY and FY 2018 TANF Caseload and Application Data

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The Office of Family Assistance published data tables which cover TANF and maintenance-of-effort (MOE) separate state program caseloads by state and at the national level from October 2017 through December 2018. The tables are cross-tabbed to include total recipients, total families, total children, one-parent families, two-parent families, no parent families, adults, and monthly caseload data.
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2019-04-23T20:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/news/ofa-releases-cy-and-fy-2018-tanf-caseload-and-…
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2019-04-24
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Portfolio of Research in Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency: Fiscal Year 2018

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This report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) describes major welfare and family self-sufficiency research that OPRE’s Division of Economic Independence sponsored in Fiscal Year 2018. The five areas of research explored by OPRE projects are: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, employment and the labor market, education and training, behavioral science, and cross-cutting and other safety net research. The report provides project summaries and highlights key findings.
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2019-02-20T19:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/portfolio-of-research-in-welfare-and-fami…
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2019-02-21
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Using Evidence for Improvement in the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act

On April 2, 2019, the Urban Institute and Forum for Youth Investment will convene a panel in Washington, D.C. to present how federal, state, and local government officials use evidence to improve program and policy processes. Further, the discussion will cover how evidence-based approaches can be used in the implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act.
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Partner Resources
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Urban Institute
Location
Urban Institute
500 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Web Url
https://www.urban.org/events/using-evidence-improvement-foundations-evidence-ba…
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TANF Policy and Legislation
Policy
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OFA Webinar: ASPIRE: Serving Two-Parent Families in the TANF System

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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.
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2019-02-26T09:00:00
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City/County
URL
Webinar YouTube video link coming soon.
Publication Date
2019-02-26
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PeerTA Resources (OFA Initiatives)
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ASPIRE Two Parent Families PPT 1009.98 KB

HHS Publishes 2019 Update of the Poverty Guidelines

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This Federal Register notice is an update of the poverty guidelines by income and size of household. This new set of guidelines reflects a 2.4 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index between calendar years 2017 and 2018 and is used as an eligibility criterion by Medicaid and other Federal programs.
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2019-01-31T19:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-01/pdf/2019-00621.pdf
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2019-02-01
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