Family Impact Institute Using Research to Build Better Public Policy for Families

Publications – Briefing Reports Organized by Policy Issue

• Child Abuse and Exploitation/Family, School, and Community Violence

• Apr 2012	IL	Differential Response: A New Approach to Fighting Child Abuse and Neglect
  Apr 2012	MA	Youth at Risk: Part 1
  Jun 2006	PA	Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
  Jan 2006	NM	Saving Lives, Saving Dollars: Mitigating the Impact of Child Maltreatment
  Jan 2005	NM	Family Violence and Children: Perspectives for Policy
  Apr 2002	MI	Prostituted Teens: More than a Runaway Problem
  Jan 2000	IN	Middle School Violence: Keeping Students Safe
  Feb 1996	CA	Understanding and Preventing Family Violence
  Sep 1994	DC	Preventing Family Violence
  May 1994	DC	Preventing Adolescent Violence in the District of Columbia
  Apr 1994	CA	Child Maltreatment and the Family

• Child Care and Early Education/After School Programs

• Mar 2014	MO	Early Childhood Education: Investing in Missouri’s Children
  Jan 2014	WI	The Science of Early Brain Development: A Foundation for the Success of Our Children and the State Economy
  Dec 2012	MS	Mississippi Education Policy: The Road Ahead
  Feb 2011	IL	Learning to Play, Playing to Learn: The Importance of Play in Early Childhood and the Transition to School
  Nov 2010	IN	The Legacy of Literacy
  Feb 2010	LA	Connecting Business to Innovative Strategies for Poverty Reduction: Economic Benefits of Early Childhood Investments
  Apr 2008	MN	Options for a Responsive and Accountable Early Childhood Education System in Minnesota
  Nov 2007	NM	Early Childhood Development: The Economic, Social, and Psychological Impact of Education and Care
  Feb 2007	IL	School’s Out: After-School Programs and Policies that Work
  Jun 2005	PA	Early Childhood Education: Universal Pre-K and Other Alternatives
  Apr 2005	MI	Early Childhood Education and Care: An Economic Development Strategy for Michigan
  Jan 2003	MS	From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
  Jan 2002	WI	Early Childhood Care and Education: What Are States Doing?
  Mar 2000	MI	Child Care and Education
  May 1999	DC	Out-of-School Time Activities: Can Programs Help Families and Can Families Help Programs?
  Mar 1997	DC	The Child Care Crisis in the District of Columbia: Can (or Should) Businesses Fill the Gap?

• Families and Education/Dropout Prevention

• Dec 2013	MS	Need-Based Versus Merit-Based Higher Education Financial Aid
  Feb 2013	WI	Preparing Wisconsin’s Youth for Success in the Workforce
  Feb 2013	IA	STEM Education and Afterschool Programs: Presenting Evidence-Based, Unbiased Research to Examine the Family Impact of Policies and Programs
  Apr 2012	DC	Strengthening Elementary Education
  Jan 2011	TX	Getting To and Through College: Strategies for Improving College Attendance and Completion Rates in Texas
  Apr 2010	NC	School Suspension in North Carolina: Research and Policy Options
  Mar 2010	IL	Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Standards: Celebrating Success and Moving Forward
  Feb 2010	MN	Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Increasing Outcomes and Accountability for Children, Youth and Families
  Jan 2010	GA	The Middle Grades: Gateway to Dropout Prevention
  Dec 2009	NM	New Mexico Dropout Rate: Contributing Factors and Implications for Policy
  Nov 2009	IN	Maximizing the Value of P-12 Educational Resources in Indiana
  Feb 2009	MN	Policy Issues in Special Education Finance
  Oct 2008	VA	Truancy and Dropout Prevention Policies: Strategies for Virginia’s Youth
  Jun 2008	NC	Dropout Prevention: Strategies for Improving High School Graduation Rates
  Nov 2007	IN	Meeting the Challenge of Moving Youth into the Workforce: Reducing Dropouts and Increasing Educational Attainment
  Oct 2007	CA	Hope for the Future: Education for Homeless Youth in California
  Feb 2004	WI	A Policymaker’s Guide to School Finance: Approaches to Use and Questions to Ask
  Apr 2003	DC	Federal Education Policies and Students with Special Needs: Challenges and Opportunities for Children in the District
  Jan 2001	IN	Enhancing the Educational Experience: Policy Alternatives
  Nov 1998	DC	Educating with Peers: Others Do – Should You?
  Apr 1998	DC	Saving Our Schools: Would Vouchers Create New Solutions or New Problems?
  Mar 1998	WI	Enhancing Educational Performance: Three Policy Alternatives
  Sep 1996	DC	Keeping our Kids Safe: Preventing Injury in DC Public Schools
  Nov 1995	DC	Helping Families and Schools Get It Done: Mentoring Interventions in the District

• Child and Family Health

• Mar 2014	MA	A Lot on Our Plate: Chronic Health Threats in Massachusetts
  Feb 2014	UT	Rural Families and Mental Health
  Dec 2013	MI	Racial and Ethnic Infant Mortality: Narrowing the Gap in Michigan
  Dec 2013	MI	Racial and Ethnic Infant Mortality: Narrowing the Gap in Michigan
  Dec 2013	IA	The Future of Healthcare: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Iowa Families
  Nov 2013	IN	Now What? Implementing Health Care Reform in Indiana
  Oct 2013	KY	Building Strong Families for Kentucky Partners in Food and Health
  Sep 2013	MI	Team Care Transformations For Family Health
  Apr 2013	IL	Guarding All Children in Sleep: New Ideas for Reducing Disparities in Safe Sleep Practices
  Mar 2013	UT	Families and Mental Health: Childhood Exposure to Traumatic Events
  Nov 2012	IN	The New Age of Health Care: Implications for Hoosier Families
  May 2011	NC	Preventing Childhood Obesity: Policy and Practice Strategies for North Carolina
  Mar 2011	MA	Men at Risk: The Physical, Psychological, and Social Health of Men in Massachusetts
  Mar 2011	LA	Positive Birth Outcomes for Louisiana Families
  Feb 2011	NM	Medicaid: How are States Controlling Costs? Are Children at Risk?
  Dec 2010	MD	Health Reform, Rural Communities and You
  Sep 2009	VA	Substance Abuse Prevention: Policies, Programs and Strategies for Virginia’s Youth
  Jan 2009	AZ	Health Care and Family Stability: Policy Decisions and Costs
  Jan 2008	GA	Georgia Policy Opportunities: Childhood Obesity
  Mar 2007	MI	Improving Health Care Quality While Controlling Costs: What Can State Policymakers Do?
  Jan 2007	WI	Affordable Strategies to Cover the Uninsured: Policy Approaches from Other States
  Nov 2006	IN	Financing Healthcare for Indiana Families
  Sep 2006	MD	Pharmacy Matters to Marylanders
  May 2006	NC	Children’s Mental Health: Strategies for Providing High Quality and Cost-Effective Care
  Feb 2006	DC	Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
  Mar 2005	GA	Childhood Obesity: The Epidemic’s Impacts and Policy Options
  Feb 2005	WI	Improving Health Care Quality While Curbing Costs
  Feb 2005	MI	Supporting Children and Families While Controlling Medicaid Costs
  Feb 2004	NE	Rising Health Care Costs: Policy Options
  Oct 2003	MI	Innovative State and Local Approaches to Health Coverage for Children
  Feb 2003	NE	Public Children’s Health Insurance
  Jan 2003	WI	Rising Health Care Costs: Employer Purchasing Pools and Other Policy Options
  Jan 2001	CA	Addressing Childhood Obesity: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles for Kids and Families
  May 2000	DC	Sign ’em Up: Strategies to Enroll Eligible Children in DC Healthy Families
  Nov 1999	DC	Do School-Based Mental Health Services Make Sense?
  Feb 1999	IN	Healthy Environments for Young Children
  Apr 1995	DC	HIV/AIDS: Helping Families Cope
  Feb 1995	DC	Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Programs
  Jun 1994	CA	Health Care Reform and California’s Vulnerable Families

• Family Poverty

• Mar 2013	MA	Youth at Risk: Part 2
  Mar 2012	LA	Predatory Lending and its Impact on Louisiana Families
  Feb 2012	IA	Bringing Families Out of Poverty
  Jan 2011	WI	Evidence-Based Budgeting: Making Decisions to Move Wisconsin Forward
  Dec 2009	MI	Strengthening Michigan Family Finances: Policy Options for Weathering Tough Times
  Jan 2009	GA	Georgia Policy Opportunities: The Economic Impact of the Early Care and Education Industry
  Nov 2008	IN	The Burden of the Unbanked in Indiana
  Jan 2006	NE	Welfare Reform: Promoting Parental Self-Sufficiency While Ensuring the Well-Being of Children
  Nov 2005	IN	Gambling: What are the Odds for Indiana Families?
  Nov 2003	MI	Across the Challenging Terrain: Welfare Reform and Adolescents
  Apr 2001	MI	Moving Families Out of Poverty
  Dec 2000	DC	15 Months and Counting: An Update on Welfare Reform in the District
  Jan 2000	WI	Helping Poor Kids Succeed: Welfare, Tax and Early Intervention Policies
  Feb 1999	DC	Quality Housing for All: Family and Community-Led Initiatives
  Sep 1998	CA	Evaluating Welfare Reform: Measuring Child and Family Well-Being
  Jan 1998	CA	Welfare Reform and Child and Family Well-Being: Implications and Opportunities for Child Welfare
  May 1997	WI	Moving Families Out of Poverty: Employment, Tax and Investment Strategies
  Nov 1996	DC	Feeding Our Families: Community Food Security in the District of Columbia
  Sep 1995	DC	Caring for our Children: Meeting the Needs of Low-Income, Working Families in the District
  Jan 1995	WI	Welfare Reform: Can Government Promote Parental Self-sufficiency While Ensuring the Well-being of Children?
  Nov 1994	DC	Family-Friendly Welfare Reform: Using Welfare Policies to Strengthen the Family

• Foster Care/Family Services/Military Families

• May 2013	VA	Military and Veteran Families: Focus on Strategies for Sustainable Housing and Family Well-Being
  Mar 2013	LA	Youth Aging out of Foster Care
  Jan 2013	MO	Missouri Policy Opportunities: New Evidence and Innovations in Child Welfare Systems
  Jan 2011	GA	Supporting Georgia’s Military Members and Families: Implications for State Policy
  Apr 2008	MI	The Journey Home: Connecting Soldiers, Families, and Communities
  Feb 2007	NE	Foster Care: Challenges and Policy Issues
  Sep 2006	MT	Kinship Care and Child Welfare: Current Challenges and Future Policy Direction
  Mar 2004	DC	Child Advocacy in Hard Times
  Apr 2001	DC	Child Welfare in the District: Where Do We Go From Here?
  Jan 2001	OR	Helping Families Help Themselves
  Feb 1998	DC	Finding Families: DC’s Foster Family Deficit
  Oct 1997	DC	Building the Future: Strategies to Serve Immigrant Families in the District
  Jul 1996	DC	Fundraising for Family-Centered Organizations in the District
  Nov 1995	CA	Foster Care and Family Preservation and Support Services
  Mar 1993	WI	Building Policies That Put Families First: A Wisconsin Perspective

• Juvenile Crime/Corrections Policy

• Dec 2011	MI	Juvenile Justice: Investing in Success
  May 2011	MI	Reforming Juvenile Justice: Fiscally Sound, Evidence-Based Strategies
  Jan 2011	UT	Family Courts: Past and Future
  Mar 2009	MI	Policy Options for Justice Reinvestment in Michigan: Implications for Families
  Nov 2008	NM	The Impact of Incarceration on Families, Children, and the Community: Consequences and Costs
  Jan 2008	WI	Looking Beyond the Prison Gate: New Directions in Prisoner Reentry
  Oct 2007	WI	Cost-Effective Approaches in Juvenile and Adult Corrections: What Works? What Doesn’t?
  Mar 2007	NC	Adolescent Offenders and the Line between the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems
  Feb 2006	IL	What Works in Reducing Crime: A Family Perspective for State Policymaking
  Apr 2005	DC	Children of Prisoners
  Nov 2004	DC	Parental Involvement in Juvenile Justice: Prospects and Possibilities
  Oct 2003	WI	Corrections Policy: Can States Cut Costs and Still Curb Crime?
  Jan 2003	DC	DC Family Court: How Is It Working?
  Mar 2002	MI	What About Me? Children with Incarcerated Parents
  Mar 2001	MI	Promising Approaches to Reduce Youth Violence
  May 1997	DC	Diverting Children from Crime: Family-Centered, Community-Based Strategies for Prevention
  Feb 1997	WI	Programs and Policies to Prevent Youth Crime, Smoking and Substance Use: What Works?
  May 1994	WI	Promising Approaches for Addressing Juvenile Crime

• Strengthening Families/Parenting

• Feb 2014	TN	Strengthening Families
  Jan 2010	DC	From Harlem Children’s Zone to Promise Neighborhoods: Creating the Tipping Point for Success
  Sep 2009	DC	Home Visitation Programs as an Early Intervention Strategy
  Jan 2005	IN	Growing Indiana’s Human Capital: Assuring Positive Futures for Youth
  Apr 2000	MI	Children and Divorce
  Feb 2000	DC	Reconnecting DC Families: Involving Low-Income Families in the Lives of Their Children
  Oct 1999	WI	Raising the Next Generation: Public and Private Parenting Initiatives
  Jan 1998	WI	Building Resiliency and Reducing Risk: What Youth Need from Families and Communities to Succeed
  Apr 1996	DC	Strengthening Families: Parenting Programs and Policies in the District
  Nov 1995	WI	Child Support: The Effects of the Current System on Families
  Nov 1995	CA	Child Safety and Family Preservation and Support Services
  Jul 1995	DC	Families that Play Together: Recreation and Leisure in the District
  Jan 1994	WI	Can Government Promote Competent Parenting?
  Oct 1993	WI	Single Parenthood and Children’s Well-being

• Teen Pregnancy

• Oct 2000	DC	Reducing Teen Pregnancy in the District of Columbia
  Oct 1996	CA	Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting: Assessing and Addressing California Data Sources and Gaps
  Mar 1996	WI	Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Programs that Work
  Jul 1995	CA	Teen Pregnancy Prevention in California (Part4)
  Jul 1995	CA	Teen Pregnancy Prevention in California (Part3)
  Jul 1995	CA	Teen Pregnancy Prevention in California (Part2)
  Jun 1995	CA	Teen Pregnancy Prevention in California (Part1)
  Oct 1994	CA	Teen Pregnancy in California: Effective Prevention Strategies
  Dec 1993	DC	Integrating Services for Preventing Teen Pregnancies

• Aging and Long-Term Care

• May 2008	IL	Illinois Families Under Stress: The Long Term Care Crisis
  Oct 2007	MI	The Future is Now: Long-Term Care Needs of Michigan Families
  Feb 2006	WI	Long-Term Care Reform: Wisconsin’s Experience Compared to Other States
  Oct 2005	WI	Medicaid: Who Benefits, How Expensive is It, and What are States Doing to Control Costs?
  May 2005	NC	Medicaid Cost Containment Strategies in North Carolina and Other States
  Jan 2002	IN	Ensuring the Health of Long-Term Care: Policy Options
  Mar 2001	WI	Designing a State Prescription Drug Benefit: Strategies to Control Costs
  Jan 2001	WI	Rising Prescription Drug Costs: Reasons, Needs and Policy Responses
  Feb 1999	WI	Long-Term Care: State Policy Perspectives

• Family Economic Security/Jobs/State Economic Growth

• May 2013	MI	Michigan’s Health Care Workforce: Capacity, Demand, and Policy Options
  Dec 2012	NM	Jobs: Are we filling the ones we have? Are we ready for the future?
  May 2012	NC	Working Toward Greater Prosperity in North Carolina: Effective Employment Strategies
  Apr 2012	MI	Pathways to Michigan’s Economy & Jobs
  Jan 2012	NM	The Continuing Recession: Impact on Economic Security for Families
  Nov 2011	IN	Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  Nov 2011	LA	Evidence-Based Solutions to Poverty: Nurse-Family Partnership Home Visitation Program
  Oct 2011	WI	Positioning Wisconsin for the Jobs of the Future
  May 2011	IA	Iowa, Fertile Grounds for Growing Business: Attracting Businesses to our State
  May 2011	VA	Employment Opportunities and Workforce Development: Policies, Programs and Strategies for Virginia’s Families
  Jul 2010	IA	Financial Literacy and Workforce Development for the Family
  Mar 2010	MA	The Great Recession and Its Impact on Families
  Feb 2010	WI	Workforce Development Policy: New Directions for States
  Apr 2009	IL	Helping Illinois’ Families in Economic Crisis
  Feb 2009	WI	Growing the State Economy: Evidence-Based Policy Options
  Jan 2009	LA	New Findings About an Innovative Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Louisiana Community Colleges
  May 2006	MI	Preparing Michigan’s Communities and Families for the New Economy
  Jan 2004	IN	Ensuring the Economic Security of Indiana’s Children
  Jan 2003	IN	The Effect of Changes in Tax Policy on Indiana Families
  Feb 1996	DC	Transitioning from Welfare-to-Work in the District: A Family-Centered Perspective