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Research Instruments
Research/Evaluation/Program Design Guides
Research Instruments
- ASPE Welfare Outcomes Grantee Questionnaires:
- Arizona Department of Economic Security: 1999 ADES Welfare Exit Study (April 1999)
- California (San Mateo County), Batelle Memorial Institute Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Prepared for the SPHERE Institute: The Bay Area Family Well-Being Survey: A Study of Welfare Leavers and Housing Assistance Recipients in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties
- California (Cuyahoga County (OH)/Los Angeles County (CA)), MDRC: TANF Leavers (Telephone Instrument) (Summer 1999)
- District of Columbia, The Urban Institute: D.C. TANF Leavers Questionnaire (Draft as of July 1999)
- Florida, Survey Research Library, Florida State University: Welfare Survey (Revised April, 1999)
- Georgia: (Unnamed Survey Instrument)
- Illinois, University of Illinois at UIS and UIUC for Illinois Dept. of Human Services: TANF Closed-Cases Telephone Instrument Version No. 8 (6/99)
- Missouri, Midwest Research Institute: Survey of Welfare Leavers in Missouri (CATI/CAPI Questionnaire and Coding Specifications, March, 1999)
- Ohio, MDRC: TANF Leavers (Telephone Instrument)(Summer 1999)
- South Carolina Dept. of Social Services, Division of Quality Assurance: Review of Closed Family Independence Cases (Version used for cases closed Oct-Dec. 1997)
- Texas, Texas A&M University: Texas Works Follow Up Survey; Transition Mail Survey
- Washington State: Survey of TANF Exiting Clients (April-May 1999)
- Wisconsin Dept. of Workforce Development: Review of W-2 Cases With No Cash Assistance For At Least Two Months (June, 1999 version)
- Government Surveys:
- Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study:
- Welfare Reform, Barriers to Employment and Family Functioning:
Research/Evaluation/Program Design Guides
- Addressing Mental Health Problems Among TANF Recipients: A Guide for Program Administrators - Mathematica
- Building a Better System of Child and Family Indicators - Child Trends
- Building an Employment Focused Welfare System: Work First and Other Work-Oriented Strategies in Five States - Urban Institute
- Building Partnerships Between State TANF Initiatives and Community Development Centers - A Guidebook for Practitioners and State Officials - National Congress for Community Economic Development
- The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs - United States General Accounting Office (GAO)
- Designing Surveys of Welfare Populations - Report from the Workshop on Designing Surveys of Welfare Recipients - University of Michigan School of Social Work
- Digest of Social Experiments - Urban Institute Press
- Early Childhood Measures Profiles - Child Trends
- Employment Retention and Advancement Program Design Manual - Lewin Group
- Estimating Program Impacts on Student Achievement Using "Short" Interrupted Time Series - MDRC
- Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report - Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. Click here for more information.
- Guidance from the Federal Government on Implementation of the Child Support Related Provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 as Amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 - Center for Law and Social Policy
- Harnessing the Power of Data: State TANF Agencies' Use of Administrative Data for Policy and Program Management - American Public Service Agencies
- How Can I Use Work Incentives to Encourage Employment for Welfare Recipients? - MDRC
- How Do I Market My Welfare-to-Work Program to Employers? - MDRC
- How Should I Follow Up With New Workers to Help Them Keep Their Job? - MDRC
- How Should I Talk To Welfare Recipients About Welfare Time Limits? - MDRC
- How to Evaluate Welfare Reform: Guidance for States by Anne Gordon, Jonathan Jacobson, and Thomas Fraker - Mathematica
- Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections- ASPE, HHS
- Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress - ASPE
- Keeping Welfare Recipients Employed: A Guide for States Designing Job Retention Services - Mathematica
- Large Numbers of Estimates for Small Areas - Mathematica
- Making Administrative Data Work For You (Satellite Videoconference) - American Public Human Services Association
- Making Ends Meet: Six Programs that Help Working Families and Employers - Mathematica, May 2002
- Methodology for Determining Whether an Increase in a State or Territory's Child Poverty Rate Is the Result of the TANF Program - ACF
- Monitoring Outcomes for Former Welfare Recipients: A Review of 11 Survey Instruments - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), DHHS, Human Service Policy
- Multi-national Project for Monitoring and Measuring Children's Well-Being - Chapin Hall, University of Chicago
- New Directions for Studying Quality in Programs for Infants and Toddlers in Infants and Toddlers in Out-of-Home Care - Mathematica
- New Uses of Administrative Records in Welfare-to-Work Policy and Program Management Decisions: Employer Hiring and Retention of Former Welfare Recipients - JCPR
- Policies to Foster Human Capital - Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR)
- Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement - ASPE
- Promoting Participation: How to Increase Involvement in Welfare-to-Work Activities - MDRC
- Prototype Notebook: Short Questions on Dietary Intake, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors
- Quick-Turnaround Analysis of Welfare Reform Evaluation Data - Mathematica
- Random Assignment in Program Evaluation and Intervention Research:
Questions and Answers - Mathematica
- Reaching All Job-Seekers: Employment Programs for Hard-to-Employ Populations - Mathematica
- Report of the Advisory Panel on Research Uses of Administrative Data - JCPR
- Research Uses of Administrative Data - Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR)
- The Results and Performance Accountability Implementation Guide
- The Revolution in Welfare Administration: Rules, Discretion, and Entrepreneurial Government - NYU Law Review (for reprints contact Matthew Diller)
- The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research: A Perspective from Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs (June 2003)-Institute for Research on Poverty
- Screening and Assessing TANF Client for SSI Eligibility - The Welfare Information Network (WIN) of the Finance Project
- Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (August 2003) - RAND
- Steady Work and Better Jobs: How to Help Low-Income Parents Sustain Employment and Advance in the Workforce - MDRC
- Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues (July 2002) - National Academies
- Supporting Families in Transition: A Guide to Expanding Health Coverage in the Post-Welfare Reform World - Administration for Children and Families (ACF), The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- Surviving, and Maybe Thriving on Vouchers: a guide for organizations using Individual Training Accounts under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) - Public Private Ventures
- Teen Risk-Taking: Promising Prevention Programs and Approaches - The Urban Institute
- Using Cluster Random Assignment to Measure Program Impacts: Statistical Implications for the Evaluation of Education Programs - MDRC
- Using TANF for Child Care: A Technical Guide - Center for Law and Social Policy
- Welfare Reform and Racial/Ethnic Minorities: The Questions to Ask - Center for Law and Social Policy
- Welfare Reform and Substance Abuse Treatment Confidentiality: General Guidance for Reconciling Need to Know and Privacy - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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