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Yamashiro, Amy; McLaughlin, John – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2020
Homelessness is a reality for many families with young children in the United States. Homeless children and youths lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. In 2017, about a third of all people who stayed in a shelter were families with children, and nearly half of children served by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Young Children, Emergency Shelters, At Risk Persons
Yamashiro, Amy; McLaughlin, John – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2020
In January 2016, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) released the first 50-state profile on Early Childhood Homelessness as part of an interagency collaboration with multiple departments and agencies participating on the early childhood workgroup of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). This report updates ED's…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Young Children, Emergency Shelters, At Risk Persons
Ackerman, Debra J. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
Policymakers, child care providers, and parents face tradeoffs in determining how much to spend on child care, including how many hours to purchase, and the features of programs that might influence quality. Given these tradeoffs, it is useful to understand what constitutes quality, the cost of care features associated with quality, the effects of…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, At Risk Persons
Banghart, Patti; Guerra, Gabriella; Daily, Sarah – Child Trends, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic created a major upheaval to an already fragile early care and education (ECE) system. As a result of the pandemic, families face additional challenges accessing care and child care providers are experiencing greater financial difficulties and struggling to keep their programs open. The pandemic has also exacerbated the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Equity (Finance), Resource Allocation
Administration for Children & Families, 2017
Homelessness is a reality for many families with young children in our country. In 2015, a third of all people who stayed in a shelter were in families with children and nearly half of children served by HUD-funded emergency/transitional housing providers in 2015 were age five or younger (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Young Children, Emergency Shelters, At Risk Persons
Administration for Children & Families, 2016
Homelessness is a reality for many families with young children in the country. In fact, infancy is the period of life when a person is at highest risk of living in a homeless shelter in the United States (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 6th Annual Homelessness Report, 2012). Every day more and more Americans understand…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Young Children, Emergency Shelters, At Risk Persons
Bires, Carie; Garcia, Carmen; Zhu, Julia – Ounce of Prevention Fund, 2015
Homelessness has a devastating impact on children. Research has shown that homelessness puts children at increased risk of health problems, developmental delays, academic underachievement and mental health problems. Homelessness also has a disproportionate impact on the youngest children, who account for more than half of all children in…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Young Children
US Department of Health and Human Services, 2018
Over the past decade, the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee") has examined a number of rural issues that touch upon the social determinants of health. The Committee's past work has focused on understanding how conditions and outcomes such as homelessness, childhood…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Family Environment, Early Experience, Mortality Rate
Smith, Angela; Greene, Sarah; Allen, Ben; Ryan, Joel; Kane, Elizabeth; Shillady, Amy; Hansen, Jacquelyn – 2003
Since its inception, Head Start has used a varied and comprehensive approach to meet the needs of children in poverty. This position paper of the National Head Start Association asserts that the programs current federal-to-local guidance and funding structure under the Department of Health and Human Services is effective and argues that valuable…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Block Grants, Child Health, Early Childhood Education
Wroblewski, Roberta A.; Bassler, Elissa J. – 1994
Families undergo difficulties in trying to negotiate the labyrinth of early childhood services offered in Illinois. Because of the multiplicity of programs and scarce funding, many children and families do not receive the services they need. Coordination among programs and services is also limited. This paper offers background on how the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Block Grants, Child Rearing
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Child Development. – 1991
Two public hearings on the implementation of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant in California are summarized. Over 200 testimonies were either received by the state's Child Development Programs Advisory Committee or presented during the hearings. In spite of the diverse demographic representation, the variety of viewpoints and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Block Grants, Day Care, Day Care Centers
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Mallett, Christopher A.; Allen, Benjamin L. – NHSA Dialog, 2005
The "new federalism" paradigm offers an explanation why the federal government has devolved much of its administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, formerly AFDC) and Medicaid (through managed care) programs. A review of child and family outcomes data resulting from these devolutionary changes in TANF and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal State Relationship, Federal Government, Welfare Recipients
Nagle, Ami – 1995
Political changes underway at both the federal and state levels will dramatically affect public policies for children and their families in the years ahead. Drawing from over 550 budget line items in 10 state departments from 1990 to 1995, this report looks at spending on Illinois' children and families by program areas, with some specific…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Block Grants, Child Health
Mangum, Garth, Ed.; Mangum, Stephen, Ed. – 1996
This book contains 17 social policy essays on various topics related to labor and full employment policies in the United States. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Stephen Mangum); "Secular Rabbi: The Life and Times of Sar A. Levitan" (Garth Mangum); "Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty"…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, At Risk Persons, Block Grants