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Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for Teenage Parents: Lessons from Experience in Four States

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Evaluator(s) Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Investigator(s) John Burghardt (Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.)
 
Domain Income Security/TANF
Status Completed (final report released)
Type Policy Analysis
Program/Policy Description Before Congress enacted federal welfare reform legislation, several states had implemented school attendance and living arrangement requirements for teenage parents under waivers to their AFDC programs. To ensure that the other states have the benefit of this experience, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), contracted with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) to examine teenage parent programs in four states that have implemented school attendance and living arrangements requirements as part of state welfare reform demonstrations.

The project summarizes lessons based on an examination of the operational experiences in four states that implemented school attendance and living arrangements requirements using federal waivers under the prior AFD program. The four states are Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Virginia. The report draws lessons in three areas: 1) identifying teenage parents, 2) implementing school attendance requirements, and 3) implementing living arrangement requirements.

Notes No notes reported.
 
Last Updated 07/09/98
Type of Summary Unreviewed
Contact(s) John Burghardt (not reported)
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
P.O. Box 2393
(T) (609) 799-3535
(F) (609) 799-0005
Submitter(s) Research Forum Staff (info@researchforum.org)
National Center for Children In Poverty
215 West 125th St, 3rd Fl
(T) (646)284-9600
(F) not reported

Populations Studied

Target Population Recipients/participants/clients
Pregnant/parenting teens
Applicants
Subgroups Analyzed None
Sample Size and Unit Arizona: 3,660 teenage parents (age 19 or younger with no high school diploma or GED) on cash assistance (Arizona’s JOBS Program) in February, 1996.

California: 1,709 teenage parents or pregnant teens (under age 19 with no high school diploma or GED) on cash assistance (California’s Cal Learn Program) in February, 1996.

Massachusetts: 4,802 unmarried teenage parents (age 19 or younger with no high school diploma or GED) on cash assistance (Massachusetts’s Welfare Reform ’95 Program) in December, 1996.

Virginia: 493 (July, 1995), 573 (January, 1996), 511 (July, 1996), or 468 (January 1997) unmarried teenage parents (age 18 or younger) on cash assistance (Virginia Independence Program).

Execution Not applicable.

Sites Studied

Arizona
California (Sacramento County and Clara County)
Massachusetts
Virginia

 
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