This resource from the Urban Institute provides information on how to address prisoner reentry issues through mapping and analysis of neighborhood-level data. Through mapping data, local officials and stakeholders can improve service delivery to…

From the Administration on Aging, this article reviews information on informal caregiving in the United States and statistics on those giving and those receiving informal care. Many elders with disabilities rely on informal care from…

The CalWORKs Project seeks to inform policy makers, using a variety of approaches, in order to positively influence CalWORKs policy and practice, particularly in the areas of identification, referral, and delivery of mental health (MH), alcohol…

This FASTEN mentoring manual is designed as a guide for those who have chosen to take the incarceration of a child's parent as a point of intervention, with mentoring as a vehicle. The manual uses the Amachi program as a model to show how faith-…

This Web resource provides a wide range of resources on homelessness prevention for prisoners that include publications, best practices and programs, and policy and legislation briefs. One of the featured programs is entitled Polk County…

Authored by Mary K. Shilton. This resource was developed by the Mother-Child Community Corrections Project and was supported by a cooperative agreement awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S.…

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Web site, the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is critical to ensuring that low-income working families and individuals maximize their incomes. Such households may not be aware…