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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Design for an Impact Study of “Pathways to Success”
A Coach-Like Case Management Program for Youth and Young Adults in Foster Care: Preventing homelessness among young people who have been involved in the child welfare system remains an urgent issue for child welfare policymakers and practitioners. Housing stability is essential for achieving self-sufficiency and promotes health and well-being, particularly during the transition to adulthood. Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Public Benefits Programs
Author(s): M.C. (Cay) Bradley, Menbere Shiferaw, Russell Cole
Integrating Family Voice into 2Gen Program Design
The Generational Opportunities to Achieve Long-Term Success program (GOALS), takes a two-generation (2Gen) approach to improve the overall wellbeing of families experiencing homelessness by enhancing self-sufficiency through residentially-based whole family services (parent, child and family). GOALS serves families primarily from the City of Aurora, Colorado, and Arapahoe County, Colorado, who are eligible for or currently Read More
Issue(s): Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Public Benefits Programs
Author(s): Anne Bryne, Lanae Davis, Savahanna Matyasic
Colorado Early Intervention and Simplified Modification Project – Final Report
Final report submitted to the Colorado Department of Human Service’s Division of Child Support Enforcement. Findings include strategies for early intervention and recommendations for simplifying modification procedures. Conducted in Denver and Pueblo, two large urban counties, Colorado’s Section 1115 demonstration grant aimed to improve child support payments and reduce arrears by utilizing early intervention strategies Read More
Ninos Sanos: Healthy Children – A Collaborative Project Between OAG (Child Support) and HHSC (Medicaid)
The Niños Sanos demonstration project, which translates to “Healthy Children,” began in September 2007 and continued through August 2011. The project was funded by a Section 1115 demonstration grant through the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). Through a collaborative effort between the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Texas Child Support Division and the Texas Medicaid Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Healthcare, Program Innovations, Public Benefits Programs
Author(s): Jane Venohr, Miko Khan
Healthy Babies – Healthy Relationships – A Project to Promote Financial and Medical Security for Children
In the Healthy Babies—Healthy Relationships Project (HBHR), the Center for Policy Research (CPR) experimented with the delivery of information about paternity and child support to expectant and new parents in two settings that serve low-income and never-married parents: (1) CenteringPregnancy (Centering) Programs, which replace conventional, individual, prenatal care with a groupcentered model that integrates health assessment, education, and support into Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Healthcare, Program Innovations, Public Benefits Programs
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Rasa Kaunelis
Exploration of Universal Preschool/Child Care Application and Attendance Reports in Denver
This report explores the feasibility of developing a practical universal application form for the four programs providing financial assistance for early education of preschool-age children in Denver. The programs are Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), Colorado Preschool Program (CPP), Denver Preschool Program (DPP), and Head Start. The report also explores the feasibility of developing a universal monthly attendance report Read More
Issue(s): Early Childhood & Education, Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Early Childhood Education, Public Benefits Programs
Keyword(s): CCAP, CPP, DPP, Head Start