Promising Practices Network Updates

Below are recent updates to the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities at www.promisingpractices.net.

Research in Brief

Healthy and Safe Children
www.promisingpractices.net/research.asp#healthychildren

• Household Food Security in the United States, 2001, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2002.
  
  
• Longitudinal Study of the Number and Choice of Leisure Time Physical Activities from Mid to Late Adolescence, American Medical Association, November 2002.
  
  
• Neurologic Disorders After Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination, Pediatrics, November 2002.
  
  
• A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism, New England Journal of Medicine, November 2002.
  
  
• SAMHSA Unveils Data on Youth Violence, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), November 2002.
  
  
• Smoking Patterns of Household Members and Visitors in Homes with Children in the United States, American Medical Association, November 2002.
  
  
• Do Abstinence-Only Programs Delay the Initiation of Sex Among Young People and Reduce Teen Pregnancy? National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, October 2002.
  
  
• Impacts of a Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Program on Children at School Entry and Beyond: Findings from the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 2002.
  
  
• Graduated Driver Licensing: What Works? Injury Prevention, September 2002.
  
  
• Rationale for Graduated Licensing and the Risks It Should Address, Injury Prevention, September 2002.
  
  
• The Safety Value of Driver Education and Training, Injury Prevention, September 2002.
  
  
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2002, National Center for Education Statistics, 2002.

Children Ready for School
www.promisingpractices.net/research.asp#childrenreadyschool

• Child Care: States Exercise Flexibility in Setting Reimbursement Rates and Providing Access for Low-income Children, U.S. General Accounting Office, September 2002.
  
  
• Child Care: States Have Undertaken a Variety of Quality Improvement Initiatives, but More Evaluations of Effectiveness Are Needed, U.S. General Accounting Office, September 2002.

Children Succeeding in School
www.promisingpractices.net/research.asp#childrensucceedingschool

• A Decade of Welfare Reform: What We've Learned About Child Well-Being, RAND, November 2002.
  
  
• Impacts of a Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Program on Children at School Entry and Beyond: Findings from the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 2002.
  
  
• Title I Funding: Poor Children Benefit Though Funding Per Poor Child Differs, U.S. General Accounting Office, January 2002.
  
  
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2002, National Center for Education Statistics, 2002.

Strong Families
www.promisingpractices.net/research.asp#strongfamilies

• Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Options, Child Trends, November 2002.
  
  
• What Do They Think? Welfare Recipients' Attitudes Toward Marriage and Childbearing, Welfare Reform and Family Formation Project, November 2002.
  
  
• Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support, U.S. Census Bureau, October 2002.

Self-Sufficient Families
www.promisingpractices.net/research.asp#ssfamilies

• Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Options, Child Trends, November 2002.
  
  
• A Decade of Welfare Reform: What We've Learned About Child Well-Being, RAND, November 2002.
  
  
• Household Food Security in the United States, 2001, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2002.
  
  
• Leavers, Stayers, and Cyclers: An Analysis of the Welfare Caseload, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), November 2002.
  
  
• What Do They Think? Welfare Recipients' Attitudes Toward Marriage and Childbearing, Welfare Reform and Family Formation Project, November 2002.
  
  
• Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support, U.S. Census Bureau, October 2002.
  
  
• A Decade of Welfare Reform: What We've Learned About Welfare Usage and Economic Outcomes, RAND, October 2002.
  
  
• Impacts of a Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Program on Children at School Entry and Beyond: Findings from the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 2002.
  
  
• Putting Food on the Table After Welfare Reform, Northwestern University, October 2002.
  
  
• States Exercise Flexibility in Setting Reimbursement Rates and Providing Access for Low-Income Children, U.S. General Accounting Office, September 2002.