This bill, passed by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado and signed into law by the Governor on June 5, 2015, details the child-support pass through as it relates to the Colorado Works program.

These resources collected by the Systems to Family Stability National Policy Academy discuss various tools for assessing family functioning in welfare or healthcare settings. Some of the measures that are used to assess family functioning and relationships by practitioners are also discussed. Additional information is provided about agencies that are using whole-family assessments to take a family-focused approach to service delivery.

This resource from ASCEND at the Aspen Institute discusses the parent engagement part of two-generation programming. Research shows that children engaged with both parents, custodial or not, experience better outcomes in life than children who are only engaged with one parent. This resource, focusing on father involvement, includes an overview of the topic and suggestions for how organizations can take two-generation action to help fathers and families.

A 2014 report from Connecticut’s Commission on Children providing an overview of their proposed two-generation strategy and the literature and evidence supporting it.

As part of the state's 2015-2017 budget, the Connecticut General Assembly and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy included $4 million to establish pilot two-generational programs in six Connecticut communities.

The Systems to Family Stability National Policy Academy (Policy Academy) is an 18-month initiative sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance. Through the Policy Academy, eight teams are designing and building collaborative systems within and across agencies to improve family economic security. The Policy Academy has three primary objectives:

1) Build career pathways through job-driven training and alignment of TANF and workforce systems;
2) Improve business processes and systems coordination; and
3) Enhance case management by understanding brain science and applying two-generation approaches.

This annual report is mandated by Utah’s Intergenerational Poverty Mitigation Act, and requires the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS) to report on the status of individuals experiencing intergenerational poverty. Since 2012, DWS has met this requirement through coordination of data sharing across the five state agencies that comprise the Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission, including the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, DWS, Juvenile Courts, and the Utah State Office of Education. This yearly report provides an update on state two-generation activities over the previous year, and includes evidence-based policy recommendations based on the data contained in each report.

In 2012, the Utah Legislature passed the Intergenerational Poverty Mitigation Act, recognizing that children in the cycle of poverty and welfare dependency experience barriers to stability and opportunity. This bill requires the Utah Department of Workforce Services to establish and maintain a system to track intergenerational poverty related data to identify at-risk children and other groups, to identify trends, and to assist case workers, social scientists, and government officials in the study and development of plans and programs to help individuals and families break the cycle of poverty.

This report describes the major research investments of our Division of Family Strengthening through Fiscal Year 2015. This division has primary responsibility for research and evaluation projects related to strengthening relationships within families, supporting fatherhood, nurturing children through their families, reducing teen pregnancy, supporting youth in their transition to adulthood, and preventing family violence.

This report presents the research organized into six different sections, showing the breadth of our family strengthening research. These sections include:

• Supporting Fatherhood
• Strengthening Relationships
• Nurturing Children Through Families
• Supporting Positive Youth Development And Reducing Teen Pregnancy
• Preventing Family Violence
• Other and Cross-Cutting Research (author abstract)

The Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program funds training in high-demand healthcare professions targeted to TANF recipients and other low-income individuals. This brief from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) presents an overview of studies funded by HPOG University Partnership Research Grants and discusses the contributions these studies are making to the body of knowledge regarding the education and training, employment, and advancement of low-income job seekers. The brief includes recommendations developed by the studies’ investigators for local education and training programs and state/federal agencies to consider in order to apply the knowledge generated by their studies.