APHSA Publishes A-87 Toolkit: OMB's A-87 Cost Allocation Exception allows public human service programs to benefit from a wide range of information technology services and components that are shared and paid for by Medicaid at a 90 percent federal match rate through the end of 2015. Click here to access their January 2014 Toolkit.
TANF EBT Rule Published - Webinar Tomorrow: HHS recently published a proposed rule to prevent EBT access of TANF funds in certain adult establishments. HHS is accepting comments through May 7, 2014. A webinar is slated for tomorrow, February 19 from 1 pm - 2 pm ET to provide listeners with a summary of the proposed rule comment process. Register today.
State of America's Children 2014: The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) has released a report, The State of America's Children 2014, showing for the first time the majority of children in America under two are now children of color. One in three of them is poor. Over 1 in 4 infants, toddlers and preschoolers - nearly 5 million - are poor during the years of rapid brain development. This year's report includes state-by-state data and data by race and ethnicity.
Informal Kinship Care Most Common Out-of-Home Placement: This fact sheet examines differences between urban and rural areas in foster care placement with informal kin caregivers. Informal kinship placement settings, where a parent voluntarily places a child with a family member, were the most common out-of-home placement in both rural and urban areas. Children aged 3 to 5 with a child maltreatment report in rural areas and those in very poor rural households (incomes less than 50 percent of federal poverty level) were more likely to be in informal kinship settings than similar children in urban areas.
Building Systems to End Family Homelessness: The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness released this four page document announcing their commitment to end family homelessness by 2020. It outlines the key areas of action to achieve this goal, including collaborating with federal partners to develop a centralized entry system with the capacity to assess needs, ensure that interventions and assistance are tailored to the needs of families, help families connect to the mainstream resources, and develop and build upon practices for serving families experiencing and at-risk of experiencing homelessness.
Custodial Parents in Poverty: Published by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, this three page report found that 4.2 million custodial parents lived in poverty in 2011, representing 29 percent of all custodial parents, about twice the poverty rate for the total population. For custodial parents with incomes below poverty, the average amount of child support received was $4,503 and their average total yearly income was $8,676. Thus, average child support represented 52 percent of the average income for custodial parents below poverty who received child support, compared with 16 percent for all custodial parents.
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