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Category Archives: Children and Families
Woodson Meeting Signals Closer Trump Ties to Ryan on Poverty, Evidence
President-elect Trump today met with Robert Woodson, head of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and a close advisor to House Speaker Paul Ryan on poverty issues. Ryan has actively supported a Republican vision for addressing poverty as part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Children and Families, Evidence, Politics
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Findings Show Benefits, Challenges of Evidence-Based Programming
When the federal government started a new grants program in 2010 to finance and evaluate programs to reduce teen pregnancies, Hennepin County decided to give it a shot. The Minneapolis-area county already had a pilot project in two suburbs with … Continue reading
Posted in Children and Families, Evidence, Government Performance
P3 Waiver Authority Would Be Extended Under Senate Bill
Waiver authority under the Performance Partnership Pilots (P3) program would be extended by up to five years by spending legislation approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. According to language in the bill that covers the P3 program: (c) … Continue reading
Posted in Children and Families
Evidence-based Prevention Services to Receive Boost in Pending Child Welfare Legislation
On June 10, the House and Senate released the text of a bipartisan, bicameral child welfare reform bill that would substantially increase funding for evidence-based prevention services. The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to take up the legislation … Continue reading
Posted in Children and Families
Performance Partnership Pilots: An Early Look
The Social Innovation Research Center has today released a report examining the early progress of the Performance Partnership Pilots (P3) program. First authorized by Congress in January 2014, P3 allows projects that are focused on youth to align and better … Continue reading
Building Performance Systems in Child Welfare
The Social Innovation Research Center has today released a new report: Building Performance Systems in Child Welfare Lessons from Performance-based Contracting, Performance Management, and the Emergence of Social Impact Bonds (February 8, 2016) The executive summary is below. Executive Summary … Continue reading
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Pending Child Welfare Legislation Would Boost Funding for Evidence-based Services
Child welfare services that are evidence-based may see a significant jump in financial support under legislation that is being drafted by the Senate Finance Committee. A bipartisan bill that is now being assembled by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ron … Continue reading
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Partisan Turn on Welfare Reform May Jeopardize Evidence Provisions
In what was billed as his first major policy speech since assuming leadership of the House, Speaker Paul Ryan on December 3 announced that welfare reform would be one of the chamber’s top priorities in the coming year and that … Continue reading
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Congress Approves Home Visiting, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Extensions
By a vote of 92-8, the Senate approved legislation April 14 that will reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early-Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program through September 30, 2017. The bill also extended authorization for evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs and the … Continue reading
Posted in Children and Families, Home Visiting