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Foundations for Strong Families 201: Healthy Relationships and Financial Stability
This is the second of two briefs that examine the interplay between education and skills-building programming for lower income individuals and families in the areas of marriage and relationships, financial literacy, and asset development. It explores how communication, marriage and divorce, money management, credit and debt, children and child support, and other issues affect and/or are affected…
Foundations for Strong Families 101: Healthy Relationships and Financial Stability
This is the first of two briefs that examine the interplay between education and skills-building programming for lower income individuals and families in the areas of marriage and relationships, financial literacy, and asset development. This brief provides an overview of existing programs and practices. It highlights opportunities for collaboration between the marriage and family-strengthening…
Psychiatric Boarding Interview Summary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Psychiatric Boarding Interview Summary David Bender, Nalini Pande and Michael Ludwig The Lewin Group January 9, 2009 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2009/PsyBdInt.pdf (20 PDF pages)
Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation: Practice Models from the States
By: Pamela Winston and Ann E. Person Mathematica Policy Research (MPR)
Federal Authority for Medicare Special Needs Plans and their Relationship to State Medicaid Programs
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Authority for Medicaid Special Needs Plans and Their Relationship to State Medicaid Programs Paul Saucier, Jessica Kasten and Brian Burwell Thomson Reuters January 2009 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2009/leghist.pdf (14 PDF pages)
Federal Authority for Medicare Special Needs Plans and their Relationship to State Medicaid Programs
This Brief reviews the history and current status of federal special needs plans (SNPs) authority, with particular attention to provisions of interest to state Medicaid programs that have or are considering entering into contracts with SNPs to integrate or coordinate Medicaid long-term care services with Medicare primary, acute and prescription drug services for dually eligible beneficiaries.…
Performance Improvement 2009
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services200 Independence Ave., S.W.Washington, D.C. 20201 Program evaluation: to study and assess projects, policies and programs and determine if they work. What is a program supposed to do? Is it having unintended or unforeseen consequences? Is it causing what is being measured or are other events or processes causing the outcome, or preventing the…
Designing Subsidized Health Coverage Programs to Attract Enrollment: A Review of the Literature and a Synthesis of Stakeholder Views
Final Report Lynn Quincy Patricia Collins Kristin Andrews Christal Stone Submitted to: ASPE/HHS 200 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20201 Project Officer: Donald Cox
Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement
This report reviews the definitions and measures of assets and asset poverty in existing theoretical and empirical studies and suggests ways to make them more relevant for future research and policy development. In doing so, the report establishes a conceptual foundation for an emerging field of inquiry that focuses on the role of assets in social policy. [45 PDF pages]
National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-Entering Fathers and Their Partners: Program Models of MFS-IP Grantees
The research brief provides an overview of the program models used by the twelve Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-entering Partners grantees. [10 PDF pages]
Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement
Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement December 2008 By: Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, and Michael Sherraden Center for Social Development Washington University in Saint Louis
National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-Entering Fathers and Their Partners: Program Models of MFS-IP Grantees
Prepared for:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare Services
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 has produced papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considered when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts.
Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare Services
Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare Services Topical Paper #6 December 2008 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
Income Data for Policy Analysis: A Comparative Assessment of Eight surveys
Income is a critical variable in policy analysis, and because of this, most federal household surveys collect at least some data on income. Yet income is exceedingly difficult to measure well in a household survey. Income questions produce some of the highest item nonresponse rates recorded in surveys, and comparisons of survey estimates with benchmarks developed from administrative records…
Electronic Exchange of Clinical Laboratory Information: Issues and Opportunities
Prepared by: Prashila DullabhAdil Moiduddin Prepared for:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)