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Spotlight On...
New Brief on Serving Homeless Children with the Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
Mobile, supportive services to promote the health, development, and well-being of very young children are expanding in many low-income communities. The Affordable Care Act - the health care reform legislation - includes new resources for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program to support evidence-based home visiting programs. States must prioritize services to families in which children are at higher risk of poor outcomes, including low-income families, pregnant women under the age of 21, families with a history of child welfare involvement, and families in which a parent has received or requires substance abuse treatment.
A new brief issued by the "Strengthening At Risk and Homeless Young Mothers and Children's Initiative" and written by the Alliance examines the federal Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and how it can serve homeless children. This brief is part of a series sponsored by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, in partnership with the Alliance, the National Center on Family Homelessness, and ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. More publications in this series can found here.
Read the Brief
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Alliance Coordinated Assessment Toolkit Updated
Two weeks ago, the Alliance's Center for Capacity Building released a toolkit on coordinated access (also known as coordinated intake or coordinated entry). The toolkit, broken into sections on Planning and Design, Data and Implementation, Evaluation, and Community Examples, includes papers, planning templates, informational materials, sample assessment tools, and evaluation tools, among other offerings, from the Alliance and communities across the country. Since the toolkit's release, new materials from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and from blog posts in the Center For Capacity Building's series, Field Notes, have been added. The toolkit will continue to be updated with new tools and community contributions. Individuals with questions about the Coordinated Access toolkit or suggested additions should address them to Kim Walker, Capacity Building Associate at the Alliance.
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