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Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children  (Report)

Author(s): Debra J. Rog, C. Scott Holupka, and Lisa C. Patton

Organization(s):  Westat

This report investigates the availability of data with which to construct a typology of homeless families with the hope that such a typology would foster a better understanding of these familiesÂ’ characteristics, service needs, interactions with human services systems, and the dynamics of their use of emergency shelter and other services and assistance. The purpose of this report is to identify key knowledge gaps regarding homeless families and to consider whether these gaps may most efficiently be filled through secondary analysis of existing data, adding questions or a module to planned surveys that include low-income populations, or whether additional primary data would be needed. Ultimately, it is intended that an improved understanding of the characteristics of homeless families with children will guide the development of appropriate service responses to such families and provide an empirical foundation for the design of homelessness prevention and intervention approaches. The project consisted of three phases: assessing the availability of already existing data that could be mined through secondary data analysis; proposing a set of questions to modify existing and ongoing surveys that would allow for the key research questions related to homeless families to be answered, and conceptualizing various primary data collections that would specifically collect the kind of data required to develop a typology of homeless families. The research recommendations described in this report lay the foundation for future data collection efforts affecting policy and programmatic decisions for this homeless families with children.

Published:  March, 2008

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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages  (Website)

Organization(s):  Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAPs) are used in determining the amount of Federal matching funds for State expenditures for assistance payments for certain social services, and State medical and medical insurance expenditures. The Social Security Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to calculate and publish the FMAPs each year. For historical purposes, this web site lists recent FMAPs as well.

Published:  November, 2007

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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2008  (Report)

Organization(s):  Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" are used in determining the amount of Federal matching for State medical assistance (Medicaid) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expenditures, and Foster Care Maintenance and Adoption Assistance payments. Figures are given for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Published:  November, 2006

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Green Book  (Website)
Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdicition of the Committee on Ways and Means

Author(s): Committee on Ways and Means

Organization(s):  Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives

The Green Book is compiled by the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives from many sources and provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty, and taxation. It has become a standard reference work for those interested in the direction of social policy in the United States. This web site contains links to editions available electronically.

Published:  June, 2003

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Child Care Eligibility and Enrollment Estimates for Fiscal Year 2005  (Issue Brief)

Author(s): ASPE

Organization(s):  ASPE

This Issue Brief presents an estimate of the number of children who meet the eligibility requirements for child care assistance under the Child Care and Development Fund. The estimates are produced by the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) developed by the Urban Institute under contract to ASPE. The Brief also provides estimates of the number of children receiving HHS-funded child care subsidies in 2005, and the percentage served, or coverage rate.

Published:  June, 2008

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Child Care Arrangements in Urban and Rural Areas  (Report)

Author(s): Kendall Swenson

Organization(s):  ASPE

This paper compares non-parental care arrangements of pre-school age children in urban and rural areas of the United States using data from the 2005 National Household Education Survey (NHES), Early Childhood Program Participation Survey (ECPP). Data from the NHES show that among preschool-age children, those in rural areas are about as likely as those in urban areas to receive care from someone other than their parents on a weekly basis. The NHES data also show that when rural children participate in non-parental care they are more likely than urban children to receive this care from relatives and are less likely to receive care in center programs. Additionally, rural children are in families that, on average, made fewer out-of-pocket contributions toward the cost of their care.

Published:  June, 2008

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Developmental Status and Early Intervention Service Needs of Maltreated Children  (Report)

Author(s): Jan Losby, Richard P. Barth, Anita A. Scarborough, E. Christopher Lloyd, Cecilia Casanueva, and Tammy Mann

Organization(s):  Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED) Solutions

This report describes the extent to which maltreated children have developmental problems or are subject to factors associated with poor developmental outcomes, what services these children might be eligible to receive, what factors influence service receipt, and what solutions have been devised to address barriers to service provision. This final report presents findings from an analysis of the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) and the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) to provide information about the developmental status and early intervention service needs of children under age three who are substantiated for maltreatment.

Published:  April, 2008

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Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in Privatized Child Welfare Systems  (Report)

Author(s): Elizabeth Lee and Cynthia Samples

Organization(s):  Planning and Learning Technologies

In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considered when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This third paper focuses on transitioning case management functions from public to private agencies as well as on how roles and responsibilities are shared and divided once privatization occurs. The paper is divided into four sections. The first section describes the history and complexity of defining privatization in child welfare services. The second section describes how some states have prepared their workforce for these new roles and responsibilities. The third section provides specific examples of how jurisdictions in seven states are dividing key case management activities for their out-of-home care population including initial case assessments, roles in dependency hearings, and ongoing case decision making. The final section describes the experience of a group of states that use private agencies to deliver foster care case management and have operational State Automated Child Welfare Information Systems. It presents some of the challenges faced by public and private agencies with their new information systems and offers examples of how states have facilitated the transition.

Published:  March, 2008

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More About the Dads:  (Report)
Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes

Author(s): Karin Malm, Erica Zielewski, and Henry Chen

Organization(s):  Urban Institute

This report is a follow-up to the study What About the Dads, published by ASPE and ACF in 2006. The original study examined child welfare agencies' efforts to identify, locate, and involve nonresident fathers of children in foster care. This report, using administrative data supplied by each of the states that participated in the original study, examines case outcomes for the children whose caseworkers were previously interviewed. At the time the data were extracted for this follow-up analysis, approximately two years had passed since the original interviews, and most of the children (75%) had exited foster care. These analyses use information from the original study about whether the father had been identified and contacted by the child welfare agency and about the contacted fathers' level of involvement with their children, combined with administrative data about case outcomes two years later, to explore three research questions: (1) Is nonresident father involvement associated with case length? (2) Is nonresident father involvement associated with foster care discharge outcomes? and (3) Is nonresident father involvement associated with subsequent child maltreatment allegations?

Published:  March, 2008

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Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  (Report)

Author(s): Charlotte McCullough and Elizabeth Lee

Organization(s):  Planning and Learning Technologies

In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considering when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This second paper describes choices faced by agencies as they design child welfare privatization initiatives. It is primarily descriptive and is intended to illustrate how various existing initiatives have defined their target populations and program scope, as well as how they have structured payments and distributed financial risk.

Published:  December, 2007

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