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June 28, 2006Citizenship Documentation Requirements in The Deficit Reduction Act Of 2005: Lessons From New York
Kaiser Family Foundation: New York State is one of only four states in the nation that already requires documentation of citizenship for Medicaid applicants (the others are Georgia, Montana and New Hampshire), and the only state with significant implementation experience....
Native American Home Ownership Fair
HUD News Release: CHICAGO - Sharon Taylor, a single-mother of five, who works for the Center For Neighborhood Technology, probably never thought of herself as Superwoman but lately she has been feeling very empowered. Taylor is on the verge of...
Interim Final Regulation Implementing The Next Phase Of Welfare Reform
HHS: HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced interim final regulations for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to implement statutory changes to the TANF program in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. The regulations ensure consistent measurement of work...
The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke
HHS: Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. The finding is of major public health concern due to...
New Initiative Will Fund School-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Youth
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched a new program to support partnerships between schools and mental health service providers to reduce emotional and behavioral problems among children in low-income, refugee- and immigrant-dense communities. Caring...
Sign Up for Join Together Direct
I subscribe to Join Together Direct, a free e-mail "newspaper" covering alcohol and drug policy, prevention and treatment. JT Direct is a valuable resource that keeps me up to date on the latest news, research, funding, tools and strategies. I...
How Can Social Programs Respond to a Major Disaster?
Urban Institute Programs that provide housing assistance, unemployment benefits, health care, and welfare to low-income people and others in the United States have a complex structure. Even if this complexity can be juggled reasonably well for families, individuals, local governments,...
The Economic Reality of Nonresident Mothers and Their Children
The Urban Institute Understanding who these mothers are and how their children are faring is important for social policy in general and, specifically, for the child support program. Despite their large and growing numbers and policy relevance, nonresident mothers and...
Foundation Giving to Minority-Led Nonprofits
The Greenlining Institute Members of California's Latino Legislative Caucus, Legislative Black Caucus, and Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus held a historic joint hearing on April 24, 2006 to discuss diversity in grantmaking and governance in the philanthropic sector. The hearings...
June 27, 2006
Creating a Personalized and Orderly Learning Environment in High Schools
MDRC: A positive school climate --- where students and adults know each other well and where adults express care and concern for students' well-being, intellectual growth, and educational success --- is a key motivational element in the learning process for...
June 26, 2006
Math lessons get a makeover: New tools spark student interest, achievement in mathematics
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered mathematics embedded in the designs of various aspects of native and contemporary culture, from traditional beadwork and basket weaving to modern hairstyles and music. Using the discovery,...
Buffett, Gates Unite on $60 Billion Foundation
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: His friend and bridge partner Buffett, 75, became known as the Sage of Omaha as he built the world's second biggest personal fortune running Berkshire Hathaway Inc., an insurance and investment company. "I am not...
Male Sexual Abuse Survivors Struggle in Relations with Health Care Providers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: New research reveals that male survivors of childhood sexual abuse face unique challenges that many health care practitioners do not recognize and understand as well as they should. Canadian researchers have found that although both...
Study Shows Environment Plays Big Role in Women Starting to Smoke
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers have long known that reasons for smoking include social pressure and other environmental factors, as well as genetic factors based on results of previous twin studies. Now a more comprehensive study of twins by...
Secretary Spellings Thanks and Encourages Educators at Teacher-to-Teacher Summer Workshop
From Education Newsfeed: "I'm inspired by hard-working teachers who believe every child deserves a quality education. You can feel the high expectations when you walk into their classrooms." --- U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings delivered remarks to teachers from...
Education Secretary Announces July 1 Availability of $790 Million in New Grants for Higher Education
From Education Newsfeed: Tim Pawlenty held a press conference to discuss the upcoming availability of Academic Competitiveness Grants and the National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants. Secretary Spellings announced that starting July 1, the Department of...
Books on Health : On Special at Your Local Supermarket: Moral Choices
From NYT > Health: Two books are describing not just what Americans like to eat but also what we ought to eat, for the sake of body and soul. Read more from this post....
The greater the number of bars in a neighborhood, the higher the rates of assault
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Results indicate the greater the density of alcohol outlets, especially bars, the higher the rates of assault. Roughly 15 years of research has shown that the availability of alcohol -- as measured by the number...
New Publications Examine Citizenship Documentation Requirements for Medicaid
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Kaiser's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured has released a fact sheet on the new citizenship documentation requirements for Medicaid applicants and enrollees that were part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. A new...
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants: Announcement Overview
From Center for Law and Social Policy: On May 16, 2006, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced the availability of funds for healthy marriage programs, specifically Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants and a National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)....
Study Casts Doubt On the 'Boy Crisis'
From washingtonpost.com : A study to be released today looking at long-term trends in test scores and academic success argues that widespread reports of U.S. boys being in crisis are greatly overstated and that young males in school are in...
June 22, 2006
June TV Show Spotlights Child Health and Nutrition, Proper Diet and Fitness Help Make Students Ready to Learn
Education Newsfeed. This month's U.S. Department of Education TV show will focus on providing children with proper diet and healthy habits that will help fortify their minds and bodies for learning in the classroom. Tuesday's program, entitled "Child Health and...
Automatically Enrolling Eligible Children and Families Into Medicaid and SCHIP
Commonwealth Fund. Sixty-two percent of uninsured children and two-thirds of uninsured, poor parents qualify for publicly funded health coverage programs but are not enrolled. This study assesses the potential impact of automatically enrolling children and parents in Medicaid and the...
Stabilizing Coverage for Children and Families
Commonwealth Fund. This report examines the extent, causes, and consequences of instability in public coverage programs for children and families. It focuses particularly on the phenomenon of "churning," which occurs when individuals lose and regain coverage in a short period...
The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America
Brookings Institution. Middle-income neighborhoods as a proportion of all metropolitan neighborhoods declined from 58 percent in 1970 to 41 percent in 2000. This dramatic decline far outpaced the corresponding drop in the proportion of metropolitan families earning middle incomes, from...
Full-Time Work Fails to Lift Many Families out of Poverty
National Center for Children in Poverty. As Congress considers whether to increase the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour, data from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) shows that a full-time job at low wages...
Affordability Problems Escalating Even As Housing Market Cools
Joint Center for Housing Studies. With interest rates rising and speculative demand cooling, the housing boom is coming under pressure, finds this year's State of the Nation's Housing report. Major house price declines seldom occur in the absence of severe...
Thousands of Families Use HUD Housing Vouchers to Buy Homes
HUD . More than 5,000 low to moderate-income families have become homeowners thanks to an innovative voucher homeownership program instituted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced the study findings at City...
Medicare Part D Plans Raised Their Prices
Families USA. Over the past five months, virtually all Medicare (Part D) plans raised their prices for the top drugs prescribed to seniors, according to a report issued today by the health consumer organization Families USA. The report, based on...
Health Insurance for Children Improved in 2005
CDC. New estimates of health insurance coverage and other major indicators of health and health care were released today in two new reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition to health insurance, the reports present...
Street Gangs Moving Into Suburbs
From washingtonpost.com.: CHICAGO -- Chicago street gangs are increasingly moving into the suburbs, driven by the demolition of housing projects that once hid their illegal activities and by the perception that police in smaller communities lack the experience to deal...
Save the Children Receives $2 Million to Expand Rebuilding of Child Care Facilities Along Gulf Coast
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Humanitarian agency Save the Children today received $2 million from the Chevron Corporation to continue assisting children and parents in hurricane-ravaged southern Mississippi by rebuilding child care facilities. The donation was part of Chevron's new $18...
Safety experts - MySpace Changes Not Enough
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: New security measures for young users of MySpace.com won't be enough to stop online child predators, safety experts warned Wednesday. Starting next week, the popular online social network will restrict adult access to the information...
June 19, 2006
Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plan Tracker
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: The data and information available on the Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plan Tracker website are based on analysis by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. of publicly available data files from the Centers for Medicare &...
Hazelden, MADD Collaborate on Child Alcohol Prevention Curriculum
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The Hazelden Foundation and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) are joining forces to promote use of the Protecting You/Protecting Me child alcohol-prevention curriculum, the two groups announced this week. The adult-led curriculum, aimed...
Proposed changes to obesity guidelines may harm children in the US
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: New guidelines on obesity in the U.S. may end up harming children, says an article in this week's BMJ. And an accompanying article goes on to question the financial links between the organisation promoting these...
June 18, 2006
Gulf Coast Summer Reading Initiative
From Education Newsfeed: --- Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, First Book Senior Vice President Lynda Lancaster and Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cecil Picard today highlighted the importance of reading and presented free books to students at Belle Chasse Primary...
Louisiana Awarded $23.9 Million No Child Left Behind Grant to Help Create More Charter Schools
From Education Newsfeed: The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Louisiana a $23.9 million three-year No Child Left Behind grant to help plan, design, and create new charter schools and increase the school choices that parents have to provide their...
$21.6 Million in Charter Schools Facilities Grants Announced
From Education Newsfeed: Three organizations-the KIPP Foundation, the Charter School Development Corporation, and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation-will receive a total of $21.6 million for three grants through the Charter Schools Facilities Grants program, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings...
SAMHSA Issues Heroin/Fentanyl Alert
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: After more than 100 overdose deaths over two months, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has alerted the addiction treatment community about a deadly combination of heroin and fentanyl,...
African-American Youth Exposed to More Alcohol Advertising Than Their Peers
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Alcohol advertising on radio, television and magazines reached more African-American youth than their peers in 2003 and 2004 on a per capita basis, according to a report released by the Center on Alcohol...
NIAAA Funds for Comprehensive Alcohol Research Centers
From Funding News: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is looking for organizations interested in conducting research and support activities with its Comprehensive Alcohol Research Centers program, funded under the National Institute of Health's Comprehensive Research Center funding...
What's wrong with the economy?
From Economic Policy Institute: Income and wages are down, debt is way up, and poverty is on the rise to name a few things. Get a full answer to this question in the update of our policy memo, written by...
The Power of Work
From MDRC: The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) serves nearly 2,000 reentering prisoners a year with a structured program of pre-employment training, immediate short-term transitional work, and job placement services. This report, written jointly by CEO and MDRC, describes how...
Weekend workers are mostly women
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: More women than men are working weekends new research from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University shows. Nearly 20 percent of Canadians work weekends, mostly in the service sector and in part-time, temporary...
Upwardly mobile? Kids from mobile homes face challenges getting ahead
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: When parents purchase a mobile home near a prosperous small town, they believe they've secured the safety, neighborliness and good schools coveted by all rural residents, says a University of Illinois study published in the...
Turning the Tide: Why the United States Must Do Better in the Global Competition for International Students and Scholars
From U.S. Newswire Releases: In order to compete effectively in the growing global competition for talent, the United States must take more seriously its stake in welcoming the world's best students and scholars, says a new report issued today by...
'Nice job! Now get outta town.'
From Christian Science Monitor | Work/Money: Some see signs that America's pervasive all-work-and-no-play mentality may be shifting. Read more from this post....
Engaging with Faith Groups
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Attempts to get faith groups involved in the wider community can lead to cynicism among members, unless carefully handled, according to a new booklet published by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), called 'Faith-based...
I.R.S. Checking Compliance by Tax-Exempt Hospitals
From NYT > National: The agency could change its standards for what benefits nonprofit hospitals must provide to the community in return for their tax exemptions. Read more from this post....
Government scheme to improve health and well-being of deprived families called into question
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: The Government's Sure Start program, set up in 1999 to improve the health and development of socially deprived families with young children, shows some benefit for most poor families but may also be adversely affecting...
Physiological markers for cutting, other self-harming behaviors by teenage girls found
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females have become major public health problems and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality...
Helping children handle stress, emotions may help stuttering
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way. Read more from...
Targeted programs reduced depression in youth better than nontargted programs
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Depression among youth is a growing public health concern, affecting one to two percent of elementary school-aged children and three to eight percent of adolescents. To determine what programs are effective in preventing depressive symptoms,...
June 15, 2006
Promising Approaches for Children Exposed to Violence
Programs Overview Safe Start: Promising Approaches for Children Exposed to Violence is the second phase of the Safe Start initiative, created by OJJDP in collaboration with federal partners in the Office of Justice Programs and the U.S. Department of Health...
LISC Wins $140 Million In "New Markets" Investment Authority
Local Initiatives Support Corporation Represents largest award to nonprofit in fourth round of NMTC allocations The U.S. Treasury Department has awarded Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs) that will generate $140 million in investments to help...
LISC Awarded $8.2 Million Grant to Support Charter School Financing Program
Local Initiatives Support Corporation. U.S. Department of Education provides third grant for LISC's Educational Facilities Financing Center Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation's leading community development support organization, today announced that it has received an $8.2 million grant from...
Over 38 Million People With Medicare Now Receiving Prescription Drug Coverage
Department of Health and Human Services HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced that 38.2 million people with Medicare are now receiving comprehensive prescription drug coverage, in many cases even better coverage than they ever had before. A surge in enrollment took...
Four Communities Honored for Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
HUD News Release HUD HONORS FOUR COMMUNITIES WITH ROBERT L. WOODSON, JR. WASHINGTON -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced three local communities and one state agency will be presented HUD's Robert L. Woodson, Jr. Award for...
HUD Outlines Aggressive Plan to Bring Families Back to New Orleans' Public Housing
HUD News Release NEW ORLEANS - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson today unveiled the agency's plan to accelerate the return of public housing families back to New Orleans. The plan includes rehabilitating and reopening about 1,000 public housing...
Large Health Gaps Persist Between White and Minority Children
Children's Defense Fund Black and Latino children continue to lag behind White children in nearly all areas of health care despite the establishment of national goals nearly a decade ago to close such disparities. According to a new report released...
Gun Report Reveals 2,827 Child and Teen Deaths by Firearms in One Year
Children's Defense Fund The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) releases its report on gun violence against children, Protect Children, Not Guns, at a time when major U.S. cities are calling for strategies to combat illegal firearms. Citing the most recent data...
Investing in Leadership, Volume 2
Grantmaker's for Effective Organizations A growing number of grantmakers are recognizing that leadership development is a key driver of organizational effectiveness and are beginning to invest in new and more robust models to help their grantees reach their highest aspirations....
Daring to Lead 2006
Compasspoint. Daring to Lead 2006 is a comprehensive national study of executive leadership at community-based nonprofits. Based on nearly 2,000 surveys from 8 metropolitan areas, the report provides current data on executive turnover, compensation, career plans, and retirement. It also...
Guide To Lending On Native American Lands Updated
Housing Assistance Council. The federal government's ongoing efforts to make housing aid available for Native Americans got a boost today with the release of a newly updated guide prepared by the Housing Assistance Council, a nonprofit organization that works to...
June 14, 2006
Improving Children's Health: Understanding Children's Health Disparities and Promising Approaches to Address Them
Children's Defense Fund. This study and report were made possible by the generous support of the Aetna Foundation. Child Health Disparities and Community Programs. Despite the increasing documentation of disparities in numerous conditions and health outcomes, these insights have not...
June 12, 2006
Obesity Among US Urban Preschool Children
Relationships to Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status Objectives To determine whether there are racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of obesity among preschool children and to determine whether these differences are explained by socioeconomic factors. Participants Of the 4,898 children enrolled...
June 11, 2006
A Sociologist's Perspective on Domestic Violence
From Center for Law and Social Policy: The standard definition of domestic violence in the battered women's movement has been what I call "intimate terrorism," the kind of violence in which men control "their women" using a variety of coercive...
Paying to Prevent Diabetes is Cost Effective
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A study published in the June issue of the journal Diabetes Care has found that it would be cost effective for Medicare to pay for diabetes prevention at age 50 rather than to deny prevention...
Teens Should Be Screened for Drugs in ER, Study Says
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Youths who come into hospital emergency rooms for treatment of trauma injuries should be routinely screened for alcohol and other drugs, a new study concludes. Read more from this post....
ONDCP Unveils Strategy for Meth, Prescription Drugs
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The new "Synthetic Drug Control Strategy" unveiled by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) calls for cutting use of methamphetamines and misuse of prescription drugs by 15 percent over...
Minimum Drinking Age Puts Parents in Control
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Alcohol kills 6.5 times more kids than all illegal drugs combined, yet our principal law against underage drinking -- the minimum legal drinking age -- is not being fully enforced anywhere in the...
In Texas Town, New Drug Plan Baffles Patient and Provider Alike
From NYT > Health: Many patients say they have difficulty getting the drugs they need under the new Medicare program. Read more from this post....
In Diabetes, One More Burden for the Mentally Ill
From NYT > Health: "Uncontrolled diabetes can ruin a person's life as much as uncontrolled schizophrenia," said Dr. Newcomer, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In fact, among the mentally ill, roughly one...
Smoking May Increase Alcohol Use
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Smoking cigarettes during drinking sessions may lead to more consumption, which in turn would increase the risk of alcohol-related problems. Read more from this post....
SAMHSA Alerts Field To Dangerous Drug Combo
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: SMAHSA has issued an alert to treatment and prevention professionals about a new combination of street drugs with a potentially lethal effect. The addition of fentanyl, a powerful narcotic analgesic, to heroin or...
NIAAA Developmental/Exploratory Research Centers Grant
From Funding News: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is accepting applications for its Developmental/Exploratory Alcohol Research Centers Grant. Read more from this post....
Foundation Launches Initiative to Boost Skills of Midwest Workforce
From Ascribe Newsfeed: The Joyce Foundation today launched its "Shifting Gears" initiative, a three-year, $10 million effort to improve the education and skills training of the Midwest workforce and promote regional economic growth. As part of the initiative, the Foundation...
Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
From MDRC: High school reform has moved to the top of the education policy agenda, commanding the attention of the federal government, governors, urban school superintendents, philanthropists, and the general public. All are alarmed by stubbornly high dropout rates and...
June 09, 2006
The Costs of Out-of-School-Time Programs: A Review of the Available Evidence
From: Public/Private Ventures. Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and written in collaboration with The Finance Project, this report reviews a variety of studies conducted since 1993 in an attempt to gain a broad sense of what it costs to run...
June 08, 2006
Katrina and Rita Impacts on Gulf Coast Populations
Katrina and Rita Impacts on Gulf Coast Populations: First Census Findings Hurricane-impacted areas of the Gulf Coast sustained both population gains and losses over the last half of 2005, with the biggest losses experienced by the New Orleans metropolitan area....
Action Needed to Speed Rebuilding of Affordable Housing in Hurricane-Damaged Mississippi
RAND - News Release Tens of thousands of Mississippi families whose homes were damaged or destroyed by hurricanes last year will have a hard time finding replacement housing in the state unless leaders in government and the private sector take...
Opportunities and Challenges for ECCS Initiatives
National Center for Children in Poverty. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) changes to Medicaid affect health access and coverage for children, starting with those ages birth to 5 years. State policymakers and family advocates working to develop Early...
Homeownership Month kickoff educates hundreds of government employees
HUD More than 550 government employees attended the "Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Celebrates Homeownership" Fair, held at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) cafeteria. Attendees gained insight into the homebuying market through many different resources, including workshops such...
HUD awards 3,100 housing agencies nationwide $2.2 billion to improve public housing developments
HUD WASHINGTON -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded more than 3,145 public housing agencies across the nation $2.2 billion in federal funding today. "Just over a million families rely on local public housing agencies to provide safe,...
Texas Plan to Expand Coverage to More Pregnant Women
HHS More low-income pregnant women living in Texas will have access to critical prenatal care the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today. The State of Texas estimates that 66,916 pregnant women will receive prenatal health care under...
Fewer High School Students Engage in Health Risk Behaviors
Centers for Disease Control Fewer U.S. high school students are engaging in health risk behaviors compared to their counterparts from 15 years ago, according to the 2005 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released today by the Centers for Disease...
Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC Area
Civic Contributions The metropolitan area is relatively affluent and boasts a strong economy that attracts large numbers of immigrants for jobs at both the high- and low-skilled ends of the labor market. Immigrants in the Washington area come from more...
Using the Internet to Provide Ethnic and Culturally Diverse Populations with High-Quality Child Support Information
The Case of Beehive At the heart of the nation's child support enforcement system are children and families. Among OCSE's guiding principles are that child support services are most effective when cultural differences are respected, and child support enforcement...
Food Insecurity and Hunger in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. A new study published by the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank today reports that 657,000 Los Angeles County residents seek emergency food assistance from food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters served by the Foodbank each year....
24 Leaders Join Sector Skills Academy
Sector Skills Academy About the Sector Skills Academy Interest in sector-oriented workforce training is growing dramatically, largely because such approaches hold the potential to improve employment opportunities for low-wage workers, while also supporting business competitiveness. That potential has prompted a...
New Report on Meth and Foster Care
Generations United A new report chronicling the harmful effect of methamphetamine (meth) on children, families and our nation's foster care system was released today at an event on Capitol Hill. "This report describes the important role grandparents and other relatives...
Bringing Attention to Community College Programs for Low-Income Students
MDRC - Issue Focus The Education Writers Association recently hosted a two-day meeting for 30 working journalists. The stated purpose was to give daily reporters an opportunity to learn from experts about community colleges. The real goal, though, was to...
June 07, 2006
MDRC Web Site Highlights Research on Welfare Policy and on Barriers to Employment
MDRC - Announcement: Millions of Americans face serious obstacles to steady work. These individuals often become enmeshed in costly public assistance and enforcement systems, and, just as important, many find themselves living in poverty, outside the mainstream in a society...
New Campaign Shows Progress for Homeless
From: New York Times He would probably still be there, defying offers of help from social workers and using cardboard to ward off the chill, if Denver had not adopted a radical strategy of putting homeless people into apartments of...
June 05, 2006
Hurricane Readiness Subject of National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Democracy Symposium
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- Questions regarding federal, state, municipal and non-governmental agencies response to this year's predicted active hurricane season will be the subject of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation's (NCBCP) 5th Annual Voices of the...
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants
From Center for Law and Social Policy: On May 16, 2006, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced the availability of funds for healthy marriage programs, specifically Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants and a National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)....
Study Shows Most Treatment Effective Against Alcoholism
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A complex study of alcoholism treatment medications and counseling has found that most standalone and combined therapies were effective in promoting short-term abstinence, with only the drug acamprosate (Campral) proving to be disappointing....
Exercise Reverses Unhealthy Effects of Inactivity
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: DURHAM, N.C. -- Many of the detrimental effects of physical inactivity can be reversed, and in some cases improved, by a similar period of moderate exercise, Duke University Medical Center researchers have found in a...
AIDS drugs have saved 3 million years of life in the US
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., Kenneth Freedberg, M.D., M.Sc., and their colleagues calculated that advances in HIV care have yielded a total survival benefit of 2.8 million years in the United States. The researchers also estimate...
Study Predicts Big Increase in Addiction Among Older Americans
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A new survey predicts that the number of Americans age 50 or older who are addicted to alcohol or other drugs will double by 2020, Reuters reported May 17. Misuse of alcohol and...
Teen ER Visits Often Involve Alcohol, Other Drugs
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A new study finds that about 40 percent of injured teens treated in a hospital emergency room tested positive for alcohol or other drugs, Reuters reported May 17. Researchers from the University of...
June 04, 2006
Aligning Forces to Improve Health Care Quality: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 'Aligning Forces for Quality' Proposals Due by Sept. 7
From Ascribe Newsfeed: In an effort to help communities dramatically improve the quality of care for people with chronic illnesses, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is seeking applicants for a new program designed to use market forces to drive...
Conference to Examine Issue of Race and Education
From Ascribe Newsfeed: The Race and Pedagogy National Conference will be held at University of Puget Sound on September 14 - 16, 2006, bringing together experts and academics from across the nation for a groundbreaking discussion on the impact of...
Majority of U.S. Youth, Young Adult Club Drug Users Have Used Three or More Types of Illicit Drugs
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The majority of club drug users are multiple drug users, according to a recent analysis of data from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Read more from this post....
Race and income converge to shape women's experiences with advanced breast cancer
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh schools of Nursing and Medicine evaluated the impact of race and income on women's experiences with the disease and found much higher levels of symptom distress and lower levels...
Largest Rescue of Troubled Subsidized Housing Ever; Chicago Groups Work to Preserve Affordable Housing
From Ascribe Newsfeed: As private and nonprofit developers on Chicago's West Side undertake the largest rescue of troubled subsidized housing in the nation's history, other community organizers here are meeting to develop proactive strategies for low-income housing with subsidies nearing...
Childhood Drinking Declines, Study Says
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Fewer children under age 13 are experimenting with alcohol, according to a study from the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Read more from this post....
Very few mothers reject childhood immunisation
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: The mothers of children who are unimmunised differ from those who are partially immunised in a number of ways, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Read more from this post....
Passive TV viewing related to children's sleeping difficulties
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A recent Finnish randomized population-based study shows that TV-viewing, and particularly exposure to adult-targeted programs, such as current affairs programs, TV series and police series and movies, markedly increases the risk of sleeping difficulties in...
Children born after abortion ban had 'significantly better' educational achievements
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In his bestselling book "Freakonomics," Steven Levitt argues convincingly that the legalization of abortion in the United States contributed to a subsequent decline in crime rates. However, in a thought-provoking new article from the Journal...
New targeted therapy shows promise in children with metastatic gastrointenstinal stromal tumor
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Children with a rare digestive-tract cancer that is resistant to front-line therapy have benefited from a newer targeted therapy that has been shown effective in adults, according to data from a small pilot study that...
International Tobacco Research and Capacity Building Grant
From Funding News: The National Institutes of Health will fund research that examines the ill effects of tobacco use in low and middle-income countries. Read more from this post....
Premature or low birthweight babies at significantly increased risk of hyperactivity disorder
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Premature or low birthweight babies are up to three times as likely to become hyperactive, with low attention spans, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Hyperactivity, low attention...
RWJF Tobacco Initiative Call for Proposals
From Funding News: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a call for proposals from local, regional and national organizations for the third round of its initiative, 'Tobacco Policy Change: A Collaborative for Healthier Communities and States.' Read more from...
Ethnic disparities in teen exercise: Do schools play a role?
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A national study of 17,000 adolescents finds that racial differences in teens' exercise levels may come, in part, from the schools they attend, and that the picture differs for girls versus boys. The researchers report...
AIDS at 25: Media Campaigns, New Trend Data and Other Resources
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: To mark the 25th year of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Kaiser Family Foundation is releasing two new documents that provide historical perspective on the epidemic in the United States: a new report on the history...
From Center for Law and
From Center for Law and Social Policy: p://www.clasp.org/publications/MichaelJohnson_DV.pdf" target="_blank">A Sociologist's Perspective on Domestic Violence: Michael Johnson, PhD. Interview by Theodora Ooms. A Community Psychologist's Perspective on Domestic Violence: Julia Perilla, PhD. Interview by Theodora Ooms. It's Not Healthy If It's...
National Survey Showed Racial Minorities Strongly Inclined to Consider Becoming Foster Parents; American Indians Caught Between Mainstream and Traditional Cultural Expectations
From Ascribe Newsfeed: An ABC News/Time national poll on foster care issues showed 31 percent of non-Whites surveyed answered "Yes," when asked, "Would you seriously consider becoming a foster parent or adopting a foster child, or not?" compared to 19...
How to spot a progressive tax cut
From Economic Policy Institute: Regardless of White House confusion over the commonly accepted meaning of "progressive tax cuts," what matters in the end is who benefited the most in terms of after-tax income as a result of Bush's tax cuts....
Ethnic Disparities in Teen Exercise: Do Schools Play a Role? School-Based Obesity Interventions May Need to Be Tailored by Gender
From Ascribe Newsfeed: A study of 17,000 U.S. adolescents finds that black and Hispanic girls are less physically active than white girls, but that this difference is attributable to the schools they attend: black, white and Hispanic girls attending the...
High School Dropouts and Congressmen Team Up For Academic Challenge on the Hill June 7
From U.S. Newswire Releases: National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program to Hold Quiz Bowl in Rayburn Office Building Foyer Read more from this post....
Nearly 600 High School Dropouts Convene at University of Maryland
From U.S. Newswire Releases: National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program Cadets from 13 States to Compete in Invitational Read more from this post....
Transitional Jobs: Helping TANF Recipients with Barriers to Employment Succeed in the Labor Market
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Allegra Baider and Abbey Frank. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provisions in the fiscal year 2006 federal budget bill will require most states to substantially increase the number of TANF...
June 03, 2006
Free Sample Nonprofit Project Management Templates
Effective project management is important in any enterprise and particularly in often resource starved nonprofits. Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing (or just allocating) the use of resources (time, money, people, materials, energy, space,...
June 02, 2006
Rethinking Human Services
What is Service Integration? From: Rural Assistance Center Recent work in two states prompts a return to a fundamental issue - what is service integration? In Minnesota, for example, state officials have initiated a number of pilot initiatives to work...
Measuring the Progress of Policies to Tackle Disparities and Inequalities in Health and Health Care
Commonwealth Fund Report Faced with mounting evidence of wide disparities in health status and health care across different population groups, policymakers in both the United States and United Kingdom seek to close the gaps. Yet there is little proof of...
Study Says Creating Universal Preschool in California Would Create Benefits That Surpass Costs
RAND Study Investing public money to make preschool available to every 4-year-old in California would generate an estimated $2 to $4 in benefits for every dollar spent, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The study estimates that the...
HUD Approves Louisiana's $4.6 Billion "Road Home Program"
HUD News Release Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson today announced he is approving a $4.6 billion plan proposed by the State of Louisiana to create The Road Home Program. Louisiana intends to use funding provided through HUD's Community...
HUD Kicks-off National Homeownership Month
HUD News Release Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson today launched a month-long campaign during June to build on President Bush's commitment to expand homeownership opportunities for all Americans. President Bush declared June National Homeownership Month and HUD, for...
The Problems with the Medicare Drug Program - and How to Fix Them
A Families USA Video Hosted by Walter Cronkite The new Medicare Part D drug program is complex, confusing, and costly. For millions of seniors, it is also disappointing. Disappointing because the programs's benefits contain glaring gaps, such as the so-called...
June 01, 2006
Immigrants Changing Rural America
Rural Assistance Center Spanish-speaking immigrants, mainly from Mexico, are moving to rural areas in unprecedented numbers, trickling into the corridors of rural health care facilities for treatment and social services. While policy debates and demonstrations on immigration persist, and its...