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AcademyHealth 2004 Research Meeting

AcademyHealth 2004 Research Meeting. ASPE Human Services Policy Research Agenda. Ann McCormick Office of Human Services Policy ASPE/DHHS. Office of Human Services Policy. Welfare Poverty Data and technical analysis Children and youth. Human Services Policy Research Areas.

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AcademyHealth 2004 Research Meeting

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  1. AcademyHealth 2004 Research Meeting

  2. ASPE Human Services Policy Research Agenda Ann McCormick Office of Human Services Policy ASPE/DHHS

  3. Office of Human Services Policy • Welfare • Poverty • Data and technical analysis • Children and youth

  4. Human Services PolicyResearch Areas • Income & poverty • Welfare & work • Family formation & healthy marriage • Children & youth • Indicators & databases • Homeless and other special populations

  5. Human Services Research Priorities • Encouraging work and self-sufficiency • Promoting healthy marriage and strong families • Expanding state flexibility and accountability • Removing barriers for faith-based and community-based organizations • Ending chronic homelessness • Improving reading and school readiness • Preventing teen risk behaviors • Protecting children and youth • Improving child, youth, and family well-being

  6. Encouraging Work and Self-Sufficiency • State studies of the TANF caseload • Evaluation of interventions for substance abusers • Impact of children’s health needs on mothers’ employment • Enhanced services for the hard-to-employ

  7. Ending Chronic Homelessness • Access to behavioral and primary care services • Evaluation of collaborative initiative • Effectiveness of discharge planning • Families and children

  8. Preventing Teen Risk Behaviors • Evaluations of abstinence education • Maternity group homes • State efforts to reduce nonmarital births

  9. Protecting Children and Youth • Domestic violence and child maltreatment • Health care services for children in foster care • Substance abuse in the child welfare population • Statutory rape laws

  10. Improving Child, Youth, and Family Well-Being • State practices in medical child support coordination • Health care coverage among child support-eligible children • Paternity establishment

  11. Poverty • Measurement • Material hardship • Poverty research centers

  12. Resources • For reports and information on ongoing work, visit our website http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/index.shtml • For notification of HHS research publications, etc., send e-mail to: listserv@list.nih.gov, type in SUBSCRIBE ASPE-HSP-NEWS-L

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