This section includes
research, programs, publications, general information and links on
parenting (including fathering, single parenting step-parenting, and
more), marriage and couple relationships, work/life integration, divorce,
family stress and other related topics.
Parenting
Raising
the Next Generation: Public and Private Parenting Initiatives
Executive summary
of policy brief prepared by the Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars.
Family Issues
Tiered Reimbursement in Minnesota Child Care Settings
Since the completion of this report on tiered reimbursement, a number of changes and modifications were made to Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) by the 2003 Minnesota Legislature. The changes were effective July 1, 2003. The State’s budget deficit required difficult decisions to reduce program expenses while maintaining core services. As a part of this process, the 2003 Minnesota Legislature made changes to the Child Care Assistance Program to control program costs, including increasing parental co-payments, freezing provider rates and eliminating the tiered reimbursement policy for accredited programs or family child care providers with educational credentials. Research for the following report was completed prior to these legislative changes. The report does not discuss the elimination of tiered reimbursement or any of the other financial and policy changes made to CCAP. Additionally, responsibility for CCAP administration was transferred from the Minnesota Department of Education (previously the Department of Children, Families & Learning) to the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
The Minnesota Child Care Policy Research Partnership
The Minnesota Child Care Policy Research Partnership (MCCPRP) is a collaboration among Minnesota state agencies, counties, child care resource and referral agencies, and researchers. Coordinated by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, the partnership brings together researchers and policy-makers from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (formerly the Department of Economic Security), county child care units from Anoka, Becker, Brown, and Hennepin Counties, the University of Minnesota, Child Trends, Wilder Research Center, the Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network, and several national researchers. The goal of this broadly based partnership is to foster sound research on childcare issues of importance to policy-makers at the state, local, and national level.
Future
of Children
The Future of
Children is a research journal produced by the David and Lucille Packard
Foundation. Subscriptions are available in print free of charge, and
it is also available on-line. Each issue focuses on a topic related
to children, youth and family issues.
Promising
Approaches for Reducing Youth Violence
A policy brief
prepared by the Michigan Family Impact Seminars. This link opens directly
to the report, which is a PDF file.
Child
Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need To Be Improved?
A policy brief
prepared by the Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars.
Individual and
Family Development
Policy
Research Brief: Family Support for Families of Personal with Developmental
Disabilities in the U.S.: Status and Trends
This Policy Research
Brief summarizes trends in family support services across the U.S., and
analyses show that while there has been dramatic growth in family support
services over time, this growth has been quite variable from state to
state.
