Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f7RLp7f01876; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p0500190eb7b06ec56fd6@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:206] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4536 Lines: 91 The WebClipper Digest is HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. For daily Headlines news, Alerts and Discussions, and to start your personal clipping service tailored to your needs, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ************************************ AUGUST 17, 2001 KID-FRIENDLY CITIES REPORT CARD - Zero Population Growth will release its 2001 findings AUGUST 21. http://www.zpg.org/ PUBLIC PROGRAMS OFFER STATES OPPORTUNITIES TO PROMOTE CHILD DEVELOPMENT - Policymakers can find better ways to promote the healthy physical, emotional, and cognitive development of very young children, says a new series of reports from The Commonwealth Fund. The reports outline a number of policy options and steps that can be taken immediately through major public programs to strengthen health care services for young children. http://www.cmwf.org/ STRONGER EFFORTS NEEDED TO ENSURE CHILDREN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH SCREENING SERVICES - Families of children enrolled in Medicaid are not sufficiently informed of their entitlement benefits and many children are not receiving mandated care, according to a GAO report on EPSDT (Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis & Treatment). Under federal law, Medicaid enrolled children must be provided with preventive health care and receive periodic screening, such as vaccinations and age appropriate laboratory tests, as well as vision, dental, and hearing services, even if such benefits are not required for the rest of a state's Medicaid population. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01749.pdf POVERTY TRENDS FOR FAMILIES HEADED BY WORKING SINGLE MOTHERS - Among families headed by working single mothers, there was no progress in reducing poverty between in the late 1990s, despite an expanding economy. Reductions in poverty as a result of economic growth were entirely offset by contractions in government safety net programs, reports Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The "poverty gap," which measures the depth and severity of poverty, worsened. http://www.centeronbudget.org/8-16-01wel-pr.htm GLIMPSE OF U.S. LIVING STANDARDS - Analysis of new Census survey data by the Economic Policy Institute looks at family income, income equality, and ranks the states on the economic environment facing low-income families, including child poverty, the share of families in the state paying more than 30% in rent, and the extent to which the safety net is reaching those who need it. http://www.epinet.org/datazone/acs/index.html HOW DOES YOUR STATE RATE: An Examination Of Low-Income Families Five Years After Welfare Reform - RESULTS provides a state-by-state snapshot of what has happened during the last five years to families receiving welfare. Their study finds welfare caseloads have declined at a much faster rate than poverty in every state: the average caseload decline amongst the 50 states and the District of Columbia was 52.4%, while the average state poverty rate decline was just 0.7%. http://www.resultsusa.org/media/alerts/WelfareReform.htm RECENT CHANGES IN WELFARE AND WORK, CHILD CARE AND CHILD WELFARE SYSTEMS - Assessing the New Federalism announces the first in a series of 12 reports analyzing what has happened to the cash assistance, employment and training, child care, and child welfare systems in each state since the enactment of federal welfare reform. Updates on FL, MA, MI, MN and TX are now available at: http://newfederalism.urban.org/#lr TWO PARENT HOUSEHOLDS ON THE RISE - Five years after Congress overhauled welfare laws, with the intention of creating more two-parent families, the proportion of poor U.S. children living in households with two adults is on the rise, studies say. However, nagging questions remain about the stability of these new households and the well-being of the children growing up in them, reports the New York Times. http://www0.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/nation/docs/welfare12.htm -- ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-865-5876 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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