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September 27, 2023 | Report/Brief | India Heckstall

Expand Access to Affordable High-Quality Child Care to Better Serve Black Student Fathers

By India Heckstall and Christian Collins One of the greatest flaws in the American higher education system is that it caters to students matriculating straight from high school and fails to account for the diverse lived experiences and backgrounds of all students. Student parents strive…

September 6, 2023 | Report/Brief | Deanie Anyangwe

Unified, Safe, and Well: Building Life-Affirming Systems for Justice-Impacted Families

In this report, we analyze the landscape for family-based alternative sentencing programs to assess the effectiveness of these programs in meeting their program goals.

September 5, 2023 | Report/Brief | Alejandra Londono Gomez

Child Care Assistance Spending & Participation in 2020

Child care has long been unaffordable and inaccessible for many families. The Child Care Development Fund, the primary federal funding source to help families with low incomes access child care, is a crucial support for many families. However, Congress has never funded child care at…

August 24, 2023 | Report/Brief | Suma Setty

“If the Parents Are Okay, the Children Are Okay”

The Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN), along with seven partners and one independent researcher, held listening sessions across the country to learn about the concerns, desires, and challenges of immigrant parents and youth.

August 24, 2023 | Report/Brief | Teon Hayes

Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness of SNAP’s Employment and Training Program

SNAP’s Employment and Training (E&T) program is designed to assist participants in gaining skills, training, or work experience that helps them obtain regular employment.

August 22, 2023 | Report/Brief | Rachel Wilensky

Pandemic Child Care Relief Funds: Documenting Impact Across Four States

This project aims to provide a deeper understanding of the impact that federal COVID child care relief funds have already had across four states: Louisiana, Michigan, New York, and Virginia.

August 9, 2023 | Report/Brief | Ashley Burnside

National Survey: Families Faced Financial Strain When Expanded CTC Expired

This report presents findings from a survey of families with children conducted in July 2022 on the impacts of the CTC in the United States and Puerto Rico.

August 7, 2023 | Report/Brief

Community Transformation: Youth Changemakers Leading National Policy and Systems Change for Liberation

The New Deal for Youth's Evaluation Strategy group partnered with Praxis Institute on a year-long research cycle to evaluate the impact of ND4Y and inform future ND4Y strategies. This group systematically documented the ND4Y initiative’s impact using a youth participatory action research approach.

August 1, 2023 | Report/Brief | Alejandra Londono Gomez

Maryland’s Presumptive Eligibility Policy—and Other Innovations for Child Care Assistance

This report addresses and assesses many policies—particularly presumptive eligibility—that may be useful to other states' efforts to improve their child care subsidy programs.   

July 28, 2023 | Report/Brief | Kayla Tawa

Giving the Young People What They Want: A Policy Framework for Youth Peer Support

This paper seeks to answer how a non-clinical practice like youth peer support can be reimbursed by Medicaid without it being incorporated into a medicalized model.

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