Child Care Assistance under Welfare Reform: Early Responses by the States. Occasional Paper Number 15. Assessing the New Federalism: An Urban Institute Program To Assess Changing Social Policies.

Autor/inn/en	Long, Sharon K.; Kirby, Gretchen G.; Kurka, Robin; Waters, Shelley
Institution	Urban Inst., Washington, DC.
Titel	Child Care Assistance under Welfare Reform: Early Responses by the States. Occasional Paper Number 15. Assessing the New Federalism: An Urban Institute Program To Assess Changing Social Policies.
Quelle	(1998), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agency Cooperation; Day Care; Federal Legislation; Program Development; State Programs; Welfare Recipients; Welfare Reform; Welfare Services; Working Poor + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tagespflege; Bundesrecht; Programmplanung; Regierungsprogramm; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Fürsorgeeinrichtung
Abstract	As part of the Assessing the New Federalism project, this report describes the child care assistance system in place just before the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) and provides some early indications of how states will use the increased freedom of the Child Care and Development Grant to develop new systems of assistance. The report begins with an overview of changes in the federal child care programs under PRWORA and the implications of these changes for the states. It then outlines the opportunities for states to improve the administration of child care assistance, the choices that states now have in program design, and the interaction and possibilities for collaboration between child care and early childhood education assistance programs. In spite of the increased investment in child care under the PRWORA, there is a great deal of uncertainty among state officials about the long-run adequacy of federal and state funding levels. Most of the 13 states studied have made relatively few changes in their child care programs. The exception is Wisconsin, which has established a universal child care program that serves all eligible families seeking assistance. The challenge in each of the states is to provide enough child care to meet the demands of welfare reform while continuing to serve nonwelfare working poor families. In contrast to the limited changes to program design, the study states have made more significant changes in the administration of child care assistance. (Contains 6 tables and 24 endnotes.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC