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- Making "Work Supports" Work: Project Description
By National Center for Children in Poverty; September 2007
Description: This document highlights findings from the Making “Work Supports” Work project, which is intended to promote policies that make work pay for low-wage workers and their families. Government “work support”...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35167 (100.00%)
- Vouchers for Housing and Child Care: Common Challenges and Emerging Strategies
By Gina Adams, Margery Austin Turner, Lauren Eyster, Monica Rohacek; August 2007
Description: This paper highlights lessons learned and promising strategies for tackling challenges to the success of child care and housing vouchers and for enhancing the potential of these programs to support the...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35081 (100.00%)
- Vouchers for Housing and Child Care
By Gina Adams, Margery Austin Turner, Lauren Eyster, Monica Rohacek; August 2007
Description: This paper highlights lessons learned and promising strategies for tackling challenges to the success of child care and housing vouchers and for enhancing the potential of these programs to support the...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35058 (100.00%)
- Leveraging Resources to Help Disadvantaged Families
By Douglas W Nelson, Annie E. Casey Foundation; October 30, 2002
Description: This document presents an interview with Douglas Nelson, president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, on how to leverage resources to help disadvantaged families. Some of the topics discussed include: the...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34113 (100.00%)
- Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
By Richard Rothstein, WestEd ; 2006
Description: This paper argues that closing the academic achievement gap between lower-class and middle-class children requires not only betters schools, but also reform in the social and economic institutions that...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33946 (100.00%)
- Federalism after Hurricane Katrina: How Can Social Programs Respond to a Major Disaster?
By Kenneth Finegold, Olivia Golden, Kim Rueben, Pamela Winston; June 2006
Description: This paper explores how the following programs fared under the extreme conditions of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath: (1) housing assistance provided through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33316 (100.00%)
- First National Environmental Health Survey of Child Care Centers: Final Report, July 15, 2003, Volume I: Analysis of Lead Hazards
By Alexa Fraser, David Marker, John Rogers, Susan M Viet; July 15, 2003
Description: This study assessed children’s potential exposure to lead, allergens, and pesticides in licensed child care centers that serve children under age six years in the 48 contiguous United States. Lead levels...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=32819 (100.00%)
- Single Mothers in Various Living Arrangements: Differences in Economic and Time Resources
By Karen Fox Folk; November 1995
Description: This study examined the relationship between living arrangements of single parents and their economic and time resources using data from the 1987 National Survey of Families and Households. Data indicate...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=32033 (100.00%)
- Landlord and Tenant Issues for Child Care, Volume Two: A Resource for Providers
By Enterprise Foundation; 2004
Description: This manual highlights and explains legal issues for family child care providers who are renting their homes. The information is intended to help child care providers set clear expectations with their...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=31763 (100.00%)
- Landlord and Tenant Issues for Child Care, Volume One: A Resource for Landlords
By Enterprise Foundation; 2004
Description: This manual is designed to help landlords work with tenants who have child care businesses in their homes. All States allow child care to be provided in neighborhoods. FMLG0010 Landlord 2004 2004
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=30223 (100.00%)
- Guia para proveedores de cuidado infantil: Como ser propietario de vivienda
By Building Child Care Project; September 2003
Description: This Spanish language guide presents an overview of the home buying process for family child care providers in California. The lack of available funding for child care facilities remains a major obstacle...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=30154 (100.00%)
- A Guide to Homeownership for Family Child Care Providers
By Building Child Care Project; September 2003
Description: This guide presents an overview of the home buying process for family child care providers in California. The lack of available funding for child care facilities remains a major obstacle to creating sufficient...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=30153 (100.00%)
- Self-Sufficiency Standard for Wisconsin 2004
By Jennifer Brooks, Diana Pearce; April 2004
Description: STWI0226 Self-Sufficiency 2004 April 2004 Wisconsin Women's Network
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=28611 (100.00%)
- Low Income and Hardship Among America's Kindergartners
By Elizabeth Gershoff; September 2003
Description: This report describes the degree and nature of hardship among low-income working and non-working families in a nationally representative sample of children attending kindergarten. At least 1 in 8 families...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=28417 (100.00%)
- Making Room for Children: Incorporating Family Child Care Homes into Multi-Family Affordable Housing Developments: Questions and Answers
By Santa Cruz County Child Care Ventures; 2003
Description: This booklet reviews the basic questions and answers that are asked in California when considering the incorporation of family child care homes into multi-family affordable housing developments. The California...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=28005 (100.00%)
- Child Care and Housing Linkage Research Study: Final Report
By Brion and Associates; June 2003
Description: This study examined ways to increase the provision of child care in San Mateo County, California by linking child care both to residential development and to local policies that affect residential land...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=27961 (100.00%)
- When Housing and Child Care Meet: Lessons Learned from Seven Child Care and Community Development Partnerships
By Sabina Cardenas, Diana A Meyer, Toni B Porter, Elizabeth C Smith, The Enterprise Foundation; April 2002
Description: This report describes The Enterprise Foundation’s efforts in support of home-based child care. After 5 years of experience with child care programs, The Enterprise Foundation and local partners have demonstrated...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=26985 (100.00%)
- The Fiscal Effects of Welfare Reform: State Social Service Spending Before and After Welfare Reform
By Patricia L Billen, Donald J Boyd, Phil Dearborn, Jane McNeil, Carol Meyers, Richard P Nathan; May 2003
Description: This study examined how State social service spending has changed in the wake of welfare reform using detailed survey data from 16 States and the District of Columbia for State FYs 1995, 1999, and 2000....
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=26887 (100.00%)
- A Guide to Home Ownership for Family Child Care Providers
By Claudia Siegman; September 2003
Description: This guide presents an overview of steps for California’s family child care providers to take if they are considering buying a home in which to operate a family child care business. Some of the topics...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=27615 (100.00%)
- Affordable Housing: A Crisis for Wisconsin Families
By Wisconsin Council on Children and Families; 2002
Description: Growing up in poor quality, unsafe, and/or overcrowded housing magnifies all the other challenges and disadvantages that go along with poverty. Noting that as more and more families in Wisconsin and nationwide...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=27453 (100.00%)