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Workforce development and human services program providers and policymakers are continually looking for new strategies to promote employment and enhance self-sufficiency for low-income adults and their families. Traditionally, programs designed to help low-income adults find and keep jobs have focused on building participants’ job search skills and work experience, providing education...

Employment programs are inherently goal-oriented. They seek to help participants achieve self-sufficiency, typically through education; work readiness and job training; job search assistance or requirements; supportive services (such as assistance with child care and transportation); and access to employment opportunities. Programs have been working to improve participants’ employment...

The words that comprise “self-regulation” (e.g., ’self’ and ’regulation’) may be problematic for many Native communities that emphasize community and learning through observing, internalizing, and doing.  Self-regulation may still be relevant for Native communities because self-regulation occurs in relationships, can be developed through a range of different ways of learning, and can serve the well-being of whole communities.

The federal government has had a long-standing commitment to supporting healthy relationships and stable families. In the mid-1990s, Congress created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, which had the formation and maintenance of two-parent families as one of its core purposes. TANF provided...

This manual is designed to provide you with guidelines for planning and implementing a program evaluation. Each of the chapters addresses specific steps in the evaluation process and provides guidance on how to tailor an evaluation...

This is the last of nine modules in the Continuous Quality Improvement Toolkit: A Resource for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Awardees (CQI Toolkit). The toolkit supports MIECHV awardees and others in working with local agencies to build capacity in CQI. Modules may be delivered individually by CQI staff or as part of a multiday...

This is the first of nine modules in the Continuous Quality Improvement Toolkit: A Resource for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Awardees (CQI Toolkit). The toolkit supports MIECHV awardees and others in working with local agencies to build capacity in CQI. Modules may be delivered individually by CQI staff or as part of a multiday...

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) supports voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services for at-risk pregnant women and parents with young children up to kindergarten entry. The Continuous Quality Improvement Toolkit: A Resource for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Awardees (CQI Toolkit) will help MIECHV awardees...

Diapers for Families in Need: An Overview of Federally Funded Approaches to Diaper Distribution provides descriptive information on the Diaper Distribution Demonstration and Research Pilot grant recipients, the communities they serve, the design and structure of their programs, their processes for purchasing and distributing diapers, and other supports they offer families.

Explore whether and how Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program implementation is associated with youth outcomes and attendance.