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Children and Families Program

Publications List

Updated April 1, 1999

  • "Windows of Opportunity for Welfare Reform," State Legislatures, April 1999. States have tremendous flexibility and opportunity to reinvest welfare money in programs or services that support poor families. Learn ways in which the TANF block grant and state maintenance of effort dollars can be used to tackle the remaining challenges of welfare reform.
  • "Child Support and Education Expenses Past the Age of 18," NCSL LegisBrief 7, no. 24, April/May 1999. Describes state laws on child support after the child reaches the age of 18, particularly for college expenses.
  • "1998 State Legislative Responses to the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997," State Legislative Report 24, no. 5, March 1999. An overview of how state legislatures responded to this landmark child welfare legislation.
  • Case In Brief: Minnesota Supreme Court Strikes Down Administrative Child Support Process, February 1999. Discusses the Minnesota Supreme Court case and possible implications for other states' child support programs.
  • Issue Brief: State Child Support Pass-Through Programs, February 1999. Describes state child support pass-through programs and how they work.
  • "Selling Employers on Welfare Reform," State Legislatures, February 1999. Businesses have moved slowly to hire people off welfare rolls, but more and more states are finding ways to encourage their participation.
  • "Eight Questions To Ask About Welfare Reform," State Legislatures, January 1999. Here are the questions legislators need to ask to overcome the challenges remaining in welfare reform.
  • "Funding Inclusive Child Care," State Legislative Report 24, no 1, January 1999. This report describes funding sources for providing child care to children with disabilities and discusses three states' approaches to include children with special needs in child care settings.
  • "License Restrictions and Child Support," NCSL LegisBrief 7, no. 5, January 1999. Examines the success of state license restriction programs for parents who owe child support.
  • State Legislative Summary: Child Support Issues, December 1998. A compendium of state child support laws enacted in the 1998 legislative session.
  • State Legislative Summary: Children, Youth and Family Issues, December 1998. A compendium of laws affecting children and youth that were enacted by the 50 states, commonwealths and territories in the 1998 legislative sessions.
  • "States Get Creative with Child Support Enforcement," State Legislatures, December 1998. This article explores the innovations states are using to improve child support collections and service.
  • "State Child Support Programs: Necessity Inspires Ingenuity," State Legislative Report 23, no. 20, November 1998. Reports on state successes in implementing programs contained in the 1996 federal mandates.
  • "When Welfare Ends," State Legislatures, October/November 1998. Looks at the national picture of how states are dealing with families who have left the welfare roles.
  • Case in Brief: Alaska Supreme Court Upholds Driver's License Revocation Law, October 1998. Discusses the only state supreme court decision reviewing a state license restriction law.
  • "Child Support Enforcement: State Legislation in Response to the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform Act," State Legislative Report 23, no. 17, September 1998. This report reviews and analyzes state child support laws nationwide in response to the 1996 federal child support mandates.
  • "Filling the Gaps," State Legislatures, September 1998. Without transportation, low-income families and welfare recipients are stalled on their journey to self-sufficiency. Now, new federal money is available to develop programs to help.
  • The Keys To Employment," NCSL LegisBrief 6, no. 32, August/September 1998. Examines programs and policies that connect welfare recipients with cars to enable them to get and keep jobs.
  • "Early Childhood Initiatives in the States: Translating Research into Policy," State Legislative Report 23, No. 14, June 1998. This report discusses policy implications of recent research on brain development and effects of good early childhood services, detailing recent legislative actions and efforts to engage state legislators about these issues, which include child care, school readiness, family support and maternal and child health.
  • "Confidentiality of Child Protective Services Records," NCSL LegisBrief, Vol. 6, No. 29, June/July 1998. This is a review of recent state legislative enactments regarding the confidentiality of child protective services, records and information.
  • State Legislative Summary: Child Support Issues, May 1998. A compendium of enacted legislation on child support in all 50 states, commonwealths and territories in the 1997 legislative sessions.
  • State Legislative Summary: Children, Youth and Family Issues, April 1998. A compendium of laws affecting children and youth that were enacted by the 50 states, commonwealths and territories in the 1997 legislative sessions.
  • "Subsidizing Success with Child Care," State Legislatures, April 1998. Examples key issues that state legislators are considering when providing for more and better child care for low-income families and welfare recipients.
  • Meeting the Challenges of Welfare Reform: Programs with Promise, January 1998. States and the federal government have transformed welfare in the past few years. Critical questions remain and policymakers have to continue developing new ideas and implementing programs from other states. This book is a contribution toward the learning process among states—sharing program innovations and analyses to help states realize their goals for a new welfare that helps recipients find and keep jobs that enable them to support their families without welfare.
  • Building Blocks: A Legislator’s Guide to Child Care Policy, January 1998. This guide offers a context that closely examines the issues and tradeoffs in key child care policy decisions, discusses state efforts to build supply, improve quality and develop effective subsidy systems for low-income families, and presents research findings and policy options as well as demographic trends about supply, quality and funding for low-income child care.
  • "Building a Foundation for Welfare Reform," State Legislatures, January 1998. States have continued the rapid pace of reform now that federal legislation has been enacted. This article details the actions that states have taken and examines the key challenges that still remain.
  • "On the Road To Self-Sufficiency," State Legislatures, December 1997. One of the challenges facing states as they move toward a work based system is ensuring that recipients have transportation to and from work. This article identifies key issues states must confront, and offers some innovative examples of how some states have filled transportation gaps.
  • "Keeping A Legislative Eye On Welfare Reform," State Legislatures, September 1997. Several states have developed new approaches to monitoring the implementation of welfare reform and holding the executive agencies accountable.
  • "A Good Time for Welfare Reform," State Legislatures, July/August 1997. Rapidly declining caseloads and federal block grants show that welfare has changed and gives states additional resources to invest in getting welfare recipients jobs and off welfare.
  • "Building a Better Bootstrap," State Legislatures, May 1997. One way to help welfare recipients to become self-sufficient is to help them become their own bosses.
  • New Directions for Child Protective Services: Supporting Children, Families and Communities Through Legislative Change, July 1997. Provides extensive background on the current state of child protective services (CPS) and examines legislative reform initiatives in six states.
  • "Preventing Delinquency," NCSL LegisBrief, Vol. 5, No. 19, April/May 1997. Legislators need to know what kinds of delinquency prevention programs work and at what cost. This issue brief provides examples of recent legislation and summarizes research on three effective programs.
  • "Holding Parents Responsible," NCSL LegisBrief, Vol. 5, No. 7, February 1997. Concern about juveniles who commit crimes has increased. This issue brief discusses parental responsibility laws, one way lawmakers have tried to address juvenile crime.
  • Early Childhood Care and Education: An Investment That Works, 2nd ed. January 1997. A new updated version that continues to focus on the importance of early childhood programs and discusses how these programs impact the economy, education, welfare reform, juvenile violence and delinquency prevention, health and family support. The report offers the latest outcome research and how it relates to significant state action to expand programs. This is a PDF document that must be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • "Welfare: What Now? " State Legislatures, January 1997. Provides an overview of the types of issues that states must address with the enactment of federal block grants under the new Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program that replaces AFDC.
  • "Requiring Welfare Recipients to Work," NCSL LegisBrief, Vol. 4, No. 48, November/December 1996. Examines the innovations of states as they try and transform welfare into a work-based system.
  • Legislator's Guide: Comprehensive Juvenile Justice, August 1996. A series of eight briefing papers that suggest effective policies for prevention, early intervention, treatment and corrections based on comprehensive approaches to juvenile justice reform.
  • "Child Care and the Transition Off Welfare," NCSL LegisBrief, Vol. 4, No. 14, March 1996. Discusses the importance of quality child care services for families transitioning off welfare and outlines state initiatives.
  • "Time Limits in Welfare Reform," NCSL LegisBrief, Vol. 4, No. 9, February 1996. Examines variety of time limits states have used in their reforms of family assistance programs. .

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