Results-Based Public Policy Strategies for Promoting Youth Civic Engagement

The Case for Shifting to Results-Based Accountability

This document focuses on improving services to children and families. It sets out some of the issues in the shift to results-based accountability and identifies a start-up list of outcome measures with annotations on their use. The paper sets the stage for later discussions about how to translate desired outcomes into programs, budgets and performance assessments.

Policies Which Address Out of District Placements and Assure Education in the Least Restrictive Environment (Handicapped Public Policy Analysis Project)

This study examines the status of providing services to children in out-of-district placements and the implementation of the least restrictive environment mandate for handicapped children.

Policy Actions To Reduce Racial Disproportionality And Disparities In Child Welfare

Many states have begun actively addressing disproportionality and disparities in child welfare through public policy actions. Current efforts are still in the early stages, but the progress of the eleven states documented in this brief holds great promise for improving the child welfare system and advancing racial equity.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Families and Young Children: A State Policymaker’s Guide to Stimulating the Economy through a Two-Generation Approach

This guide offers ideas and strategies for state governments to maximize the impact of ARRA for low-skilled parents and to ensure the healthy development of their children. It provides an analysis of the ARRA funding allocations that will create entry-level jobs and ensure access to quality early care and education. An overview of existing funding sources with recommendations for coordination with ARRA funding is also included.

Challenges And Opportunities For Public Policies On Family Support And Education 1990

This chapter identifies ways in which family support can become a more important part of public policy. It is intended to help state officials respond to both the challenge and opportunity presented by family support and education programs by developing and implementing new and improved responses to the needs of children and families.

Keeping Pace With Change: Black Males and Social Policy 1993

This paper discusses the structural issues that have contributed to the economic status of black males in the United States.

Policy Matters - Encouraging Strong Family Relationships

This report takes a look at recent changes in the American family structure, economic prospects and parenting. It presents evidence for 11 state policy recommendations and benchmarks for efforts to make sure every child grows up in a stable home with warm, supportive relationships.

Policy Matters - Encouraging Strong Family Relationships BRIEF

Policy Matters - Raising Educational Achievement

This paper provides an overview of current education policy issues and offers recommendations for improving public elementary, secondary and post-secondary educational opportunities. Policy benchmarks are proposed for teacher quality, school quality, education finance and post-secondary access policies.

Policy Matters - Setting and Measuring Benchmarks for State Policies

This paper puts forth an approach to setting benchmarks for a state policy agenda to encourage stronger family relationships. The paper offers a beginning statement on the importance of solid, evidence-informed recommendations to help states encourage the development of stronger family bonds and resilience in the face of economic and social pressures.

Policy Matters - Engaging Youth in Positive Productive Roles

This paper presents policy goals and benchmarks aimed at engaging youth in positive and productive roles. Taken together, the policies identified present a powerful and compelling agenda for improving outcomes for young people ages 8 to 24.

Policy Matters: Promoting Child Safety, Permanence and Well-Being Through Safe and Strong Families, Supportive Communities and Effective Systems

This paper presents a framework for policy options aimed at achieving a core result: safety and well-being for children with permanent families. It focuses primarily on state child welfare agencies and their partners, which include the courts and systems responsible for health, mental health, education and other related services.  The paper makes specific policy recommendations, including the available research and practice evidence that informs these recommendations.

Policy Matters - Improving the Economic Success of Families

This paper presents a framework for policies and policy benchmarks aimed at improving family economic success. Specifically, the paper explores the rationale for work preparation, work attachment, income support, asset promotion and protection, and job creation policies with policy recommendation and suggested benchmarks.

Policy Matters - Improving The Readiness Of Children for School

This paper reviews what the early care and education field knows about school readiness and provides a description of the current context for school readiness policy. This document recommends nine policies germane to school readiness. The paper concludes with a unique approach to applying benchmarks for state school readiness policy decisions.

Policy Matters - Promoting Better Family Health

This paper examines state policies with the potential for improving the health status of low-income families. The paper focuses on three categories of state health policy, including policies that address the health care services system, behavioral health and healthy environments.

Policy Matters - Promoting Better Family Health BRIEF

Restructuring Medicaid An Agenda For Change 1983

A proposal to restructure Medicaid into two separate systems of care; a federally financed and administered National Primary Health Care Program, and a state administered Continuing Care System.

The Case For Comprehensive Unemployment Insurance Reform 1987

This paper presents the case that unemployment insurance should be restructures as a way of creating a new national employment and training policy that assures job security for Americans.

Policy Matters - 20 State Policies to Enhance States Prosperity and Create Bright Futures for America's Children

This report identifies 20 evidence-based policies and assembles state data available in order to assist legislators, governors, and other leaders in making critical decisions in the areas of: Income and Assets Growth; Employment; Health; Education; and, Family Relationships and Support.