Growing Up in Poverty Project: Program Components, Policies, and Activities

Program Components, Policies, and Activities Evaluated

Other

  • To Be Determined

Program requirements

  • Work requirement

Social/Support services

  • Child care
  • Transitional child care

Educational activities

  • School readiness activities

Administration/Implementation

  • Administration/Implementation - misc.
Variation in program components across sites? Yes
Notes on program components Program operations: Additional early childhood programs and their effects will be studied. Program requirements: Under the new welfare legislation, mothers with pre-school age children will be required to work for cash assistance. Social/Support services: As states spend more on child care and school readiness, whether or not TANF families utilize these subsidies will be studied.