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Administering Work-Related Requirements Across

Administering Work-Related Requirements Across Human Services Programs: Service Delivery Approaches

This brief discusses two primary approaches for providing employment-related services to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and public housing program participants to help them meet work-related requirements. The findings are based on discussions with state and local administrators and
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum:

2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum: Measuring Economic Mobility Quarterly Leadership Memo Series

The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (IRP) prepared a series of three memos on economic mobility for Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). These memos were shared with forum participants and may be of interest to a broader audience. Memo 1 discusses definitions of econo
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum:

2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum: Event Recordings & Slide Presentations

One Destination, Many Roads: Envisioning Universal Measures of Economic Mobility Organized by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum:

2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum: Summary

One Destination, Many Roads: Envisioning Universal Measures of Economic Mobility A virtual series organized by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum:

2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum: Speaker Bios

One Destination, Many Roads: Envisioning Universal Measures of Economic Mobility Speaker Bios Welcome and Overview Katherine Magnuson , Director, Institute for Research on Poverty; Professor, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum:

2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum: Agenda

One Destination, Many Roads: Envisioning Universal Measures of Economic Mobility September 9 & 16, 2020 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. Eastern/12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. Central 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Mountain/10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Pacific A virtual series organized by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (A
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum

2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum

The 2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum was held virtually on September 9, 2020 and September 16, 2020.
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Federal programs that can support two-generation

Federal programs that can support two-generation approaches

Home Resources Federal Programs
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Resources for developing and implementing two-

Resources for developing and implementing two-generation approaches

Home Resources Federal Programs Federal agencies have produced a variety of resources and research related to the development and implementation of two-generation approaches. These resources include fact sheets, issue briefs, toolkits, webinars, reports, and program guidance. Items are listed here in reverse chronological order b
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Federal Resources on Two-Generation Approaches

Federal Resources on Two-Generation Approaches for Human Services

This web page provides information and resources about developing and implementing two-family approaches from federal agencies for state and local governments and non-governmental organizations.
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Understanding Substance Use Coercion as a Barrier

Understanding Substance Use Coercion as a Barrier to Economic Stability for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Policy Implications

Substance use coercion occurs when perpetrators of intimate partner violence undermine and control their partners through substance-use related tactics and actively keep them from meeting treatment and recovery goals.
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Case Study: Douglas County Community Mental

Case Study: Douglas County Community Mental Health Center

Douglas County Community Mental Health Center fosters relationships for incarcerated and reentering individuals recovering from substance use in Douglas County, Nebraska through coffee chats and connections with staff.
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs - HHS

Home Department of Health and Human Services Interagency organizations Click on the links to jump to the each office’s content, summarized in the parentheses next to the link.
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs - Interagency organizations

Home Department of Health and Human Services Interagency organizations As a member of the following interagency organizations related to human services, HHS would also like to make stakeholders aware of these additional websites with COVID-19 resources. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs

This site provides key COVID-19-related guidance and information from HHS for human services program providers and stakeholders, particularly state and local government agencies and faith and community-based organizations.
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How to Include Social Capital in a Human Services

How to Include Social Capital in a Human Services Program Logic Model

This tool demonstrates how human services practitioners can use a logic model to map out the role social capital plays in their programs, providing hypothetical examples and a blank tool for practitioners to fill in themselves.   Social Capital Logic Model Tool (PDF)
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Strengthening Human Services through Social

Strengthening Human Services through Social Capital

ASPE has contracted with Research Triangle Institute and the University of North Carolina School of Government for this project, which seeks to understand how local, state, faith-based, and nonprofit human services programs and organizations can create and use social capital to increase employment, reduce poverty, and improve child and family well
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Independent Contractors and Nontraditional

Independent Contractors and Nontraditional Workers: Implications for the Child Support Program

For child support programs, the emergence of the gig economy presents a new dimension to the longstanding challenge of establishing and enforcing child support orders for noncustodial parents working outside traditional salaried employment – in jobs that are often temporary, part-time, and contingent. Infographic Infographic Text Versi
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TANF "Leavers", Applicants, and

TANF "Leavers", Applicants, and Caseload Studies

This is the ASPE-sponsored web site on Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) \"leavers\", applicants, caseload studies, and other state studies of welfare outcomes. This site has been developed to provide technical assistance to ASPE-funded grantees and other researchers, background on the ASPE-funded grants to states and counties, access
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Rural Research Needs and Data Sources for

Rural Research Needs and Data Sources for Selected Human Services Topics

Prepared by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.   Contents Research Summary (in PDF format )

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