This report was prepared by ICF International under a contract with USDA to analyze the Rural Development Multi-family Housing Program, identify problems, and provide recommendations for changes to address such problems. This assessment included…

Authored by Tammy Ouellette, Nancy Burstein, David Long, and Erik Beecroft. This report summarizes what is known about the measurement of material hardship and its application to research with low-income families with children. The report, by Abt…

Authored by John Trutko and Burt Barnow. This report explores the feasibility of developing a core set of performance measures across four HHS programs that focus on service delivery to homeless persons. The report, by Capital Research…

Mentoring programs can often provide positive youth development similar to the support a youth receives from caregivers. This issue brief, from the National Human Service Assembly, offers information on how greater family engagement in youth…

Authored by Courtney Burke, James Fossett, and Thomas Gais. This report finds that significant activity at federal and state levels to extend opportunities for partnerships between government and faith-based social service organizations (FBOs)…

This report of the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center Reentry Roundtable explores the transition from prison to work and discusses what we know about the employment-related needs of prisoners, the current opportunities and restrictions on…

This Urban Institute report, Outside the Walls, provides descriptions of a broad array of prisoner reentry activity across the country, as well as briefing papers that discuss what is known about reentry as it pertains to employment, health,…

Domestic violence can have a wide range of effects on the education, training, and employment options for women. Specifically, women on welfare who are victims of sexual violence may have a harder time meeting program requirements. From the…

This report describes the Rockefeller Institute's May 2004 colloquium on State and local administration of service delivery under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. Included are highlights from the keynote address by Mason Bishop, Deputy…

This GAO report discusses the size and distribution of the rural TANF caseload, the challenges and strengths of various rural TANF programs, the current strategies being used to deliver social services in rural areas, and current Federal efforts…