ResearchThis PowerPoint presentation summarizes findings from two scholarly studies on child welfare and homelessness in New York City. The two studies were published in 2004 and 2005 by Children & Youth Services Review and Social Service Review, respectively.
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ResearchThis report offers an evaluation of Keeping Families Together (KFT), a pilot initiative from the Corporation of Supportive Housing (CSH). KFT tests the impact of permanent supportive housing for families with previous involvement with homelessness and the child welfare system.
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ResearchThis report from the University of Minnesota's Center for Advanced Studies on Child Welfare looks at the educational outcomes of children in family supportive housing. The study compares the academic performance of 70 students in supportive housing versus 342 homeless students.
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ResearchThis report from the Family Housing Fund catalogs the myriad impacts homelessness has on children. The author focuses first on how homelessness affects different age groups: prenatal, infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-aged children.
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ResearchThis toolkit offers suggestions on how to help transition-age young adults enter permanent housing. It outlines concrete ways in which organizations can better engage youths (age 18-25) aging out of the foster care system.
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ResearchThis study utilized survey data from Children’s HealthWatch, county-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and subsidized housing data from HUD’s A Picture of Subsidized Households—2008.
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ResearchThis report examines 11 Inclusionary Zoning programs across the United States to determine the extent to which the policies serve lower-income families and provide IZ recipients with access to low-poverty neighborhoods and residentially assign them to high-performing schools, thereby promoting the academic achievement and educational attainment of their children.
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ResearchHarvard's National Bureau of Economic Research takes a look at the Moving to Opportunity program and its impacts on children's long-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns.
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ResearchThis research, which involved children enrolled in the Chicago public school system, was published in the APA journal Developmental Psychology®. It shows that children who experienced fewer school transitions over a five-year period demonstrated greater cognitive skills and higher math achievement in early elementary school, relative to their counterparts who changed schools frequently.
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ResearchLead poisoning, often resulting from exposure to lead paint in older homes, poses a serious health threat to children. The Georgia Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (GHHLPPP) uses Medicaid and other funding to carry out blood lead testing, home lead hazards assessments and education to prevent lead poisoning among low-income children. GHHLPPP will soon begin piloting home asthma risk assessments for children with severe asthma.
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