Findings of the Financial Progress Study of Center for Working Families Participants
This study assesses whether families experience income growth and other financial achievements – both behavioral and monetary – over the course of their participation in the Center for Working Families program.
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Endings and Beginnings
This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session nine emphasizes that not all endings are the same, transitions can be challenging for children and teens in foster care and foster parents can support a positive transition in a number of ways.
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Low-Income Working Families: Paper 6
This paper uses data from the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF) to look at differences across types of neighborhood environments in the well-being of families and children.
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Questions and Answers About the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008
This report outlines the key provisions of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, and is intended as a guide to assist people and agencies who want to implement the new act to help improve the lives of children.
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A Summary of the Barriers to Apprenticeship Expansion Research Project
This report presents new research and recommendations aimed at helping businesses recognize apprenticeships as a valuable, viable workforce development strategy. Its companion publication, Recasting Apprenticeship Annotated Bibliography, shares a collection of literature on apprenticeship.
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Mirror, Mirror
This ARC Reflections Training Curriculum walks a facilitator — slide by slide — through each session’s content. Session five helps facilitators encourage caregivers to be curious about children and teens’ communications style and learn to respond supportively.
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A Making Connections Peer Technical Assistance Match Between San Diego, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and Newark, New Jersey
This report summarizes the results of a peer match between three Making Connections sites to exchange ideas about creating resident-led community development corporations.
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Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care: Strengthening a Critical Resource to Help Young Children Succeed
This essay, taken from the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book, examines how "family, friend and neighbor care", a type of child care used by millions of families, nurtures young children and how parents and providers can connect to resources to increase the quality of this care.
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This policy brief identifies the challenges that low-income working adults in New Jersey encounter when they pursue a college education – including access to adequate financial aid.
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Borrowing to Make Ends Meet
Part of the Borrowing to Make Ends Meet series, this brief documents the rise in credit card and mortgage debt between 1992 and 2001, and examines the factors contributing to older Americans’ increased reliance on credit cards during this time.
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