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Can States Improve Children’s Health by Preventing Abuse and Neglect?
Ron Haskins, Janet Currie, and Lawrence M. Berger - The Future of Children Policy Brief Spring 2015, 01 Apr 2015
… services than for preventive services and programs that could keep children out of foster care. The brief highlights … run. Thus, most states argue that with more funding they could provide more, and more effective, programs and … it gives them for prevention and treatment programs that could keep kids out of foster care in the first place. For a …
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Improving Outcomes for Transitional Youth: Considerations for Pay for Success Projects
Mayookha Mitra-Majumdar, Keith Fudge, Kriti Ramakrishnan - Urban Institute, 01 Mar 2019
… for transitional youth is relatively limited. Partners could adapt an evidence-based program originally meant for a … a PFS project serving transitional youth. In this way, PFS could be used as a vehicle to evaluate a promising program … for transitional youth is relatively limited. Partners could adapt an evidence-based program originally meant for a …
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Meeting the School-Age Child Care Needs of Working Parents Facing COVID-19 Distance Learning: Policy Options to Consider
Gina Adams & Margaret Todd - Urban Institute, 01 Jul 2020
… work. It then lists policy strategies that policymakers could implement to better support these families and … work. It then lists policy strategies that policymakers could implement to better support these families and … can take to help families meet these goals, some of which could also be supported by the private sector and …
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Kids, Families and COVID-19: Pandemic Pain Points and the Urgent Need to Respond
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 14 Dec 2020
… agriculture, energy and other vital sectors who could not work from home. Family members such as grandparents … roles, an enormous portion of the nation’s workers could be sidelined from being able to support themselves and … Schools have been disrupted so profoundly that the effects could damage the prospects of an entire generation of young …
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Social protection for families with children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean: An imperative to address the impact of COVID-19
ECLAC-UNICEF, 01 Dec 2020
… poverty among Latin America’s children and adolescents could rise by as much as 7.6 percentage points. With this, … which are particularly essential in early childhood. This could also have medium- and long-term effects on overall … wasting. It found that additional deaths among under-fives could increase by between 9.8% and 44.7% per month in that …
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Economic Security in Good Times and Bad: COVID-19 Demonstrates Why We Need a Child Allowance
Center for the Study of Social Policy, 01 Mar 2020
… | info@CSSP.org | www.CSSP.org * A child allowance could replace the child tax credit, but should not replace … child allowances are distributed monthly, though they could be designed to be distributed weekly or biweekly. They … to distribute food and cash assistance to families. They could also be designed to be picked up in cash at an easily …
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What Lessons Can the Child Welfare System Take from the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Sarah Font - American Enterprise Institute, 2021
… by school personnel. • Improved use of virtual technology could improve family court processes and family treatment … typically account for one in five CWS referrals4— could no longer observe whether children had sus- picious bruises or were unfed, and children could no longer go to their teachers or school counselors to …
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Paid Leave for All: COVID-19 demonstrates why we need paid medical and caregiving leave— and why it should be structured as a linked social insurance and public assistance program
Center for the Study of Social Policy, 01 Apr 2020
… medical and caregiving leave public assistance program could complement a social insurance program, ensuring that … medical and caregiving leave public assistance program could be established to align with the social insurance … Security Income (SSI).22 A paid family leave policy could be structured on the same principles as Social Security …
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Stronger Together: Building an Inclusive System of Supports for Immigrant Families During the Pandemic, and Always
Center for the Study of Social Policy, 01 Jul 2020
… a public benefit for public charge purposes.25 But it could do more. While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement … a public benefit for public charge purposes.25 But it could do more. While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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