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The paper summarizes the research addressing the effects of TANF on family formation and suggests policies that would neither discourage marriage nor disadvantage children being raised in single-parent families.

It concludes with suggestions for state welfare agencies on improving access to services for families at risk for "disconnection".

This policy brief summarizes the research comparing women who have left welfare and are working, with "the disconnected" who tend to be very poor single mothers facing barriers to self-sufficiency, including less education, substance abuse, mental health issues, and domestic violence.

In particular, in 2008 one third of poor single mothers were neither working nor receiving cash assistance.

This paper explains that TANF has not successfully countered the effects of the recession between 2007-2010, or responded adequately to high unemployment. It includes comparison charts of state assistance levels and implications for unemployed families.

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This manual outlines changes to the TANF program as a result of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA). The DRA increases the proportion of recipients who must participate in work activities and HHS' new regulations issued in 2006 limits states flexibility in assigning eligible work activities. This document includes details about these changes, information on income supports for families, TANF eligibility and requirements for people with disabilities, and concludes strategies for states trying to implement the new rules.

This webpage provides background information on the ACF Healthy Marriage Initiative. It also includes the text of Section 7103, Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood, part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

This overview explains the changes to TANF under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and HHS' corresponding final rule. It clearly lays out participation rates and requirements for education and job search activities, and implications for people with disabilities.

This fact sheet provides a general overview of the types of federal benefit programs available to domestic violence survivors. Given its simplicity and brevity, this resource could be distributed easily to survivors.

In November 2010, Congress extended the TANF program through FY 2011, as part of the Claims Resolution Act (H.R. 4783). This fact sheet summarizes these legislative actions.

This fact sheet includes an overview of the TANF program, state spending levels, eligibility requirements, and the experiences since welfare reform in the mid-1990s.

This issue discusses civil and criminal asset forfeiture as a tool in prosecuting cases of human trafficking and related crimes.

This issue discusses the critical strategies that can help prosecutors develop a response to human trafficking that recognizes and responds to the interconnected sexual and physical violence perpetrated against trafficked and non-trafficked victims.

The ILO estimates that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labor globally, trapped in jobs into which they were coerced or deceived and which they can not leave. The document describes in detail the revised methodology used to generate the 2012 ILO global estimate of forced labour, covering the period from 2002 to 2011, and the main results obtained.

Included in this publication is a policy guideline on gender mainstreaming, and practical guidelines on how to institutionalize gender-sensitive risk assessments, implement gender-sensitive early warning systems, and use gender-sensitive indicators to monitor gender mainstreaming progress. Also included is a summary of the limited global progress in this task so far, and a list of further readings.

This publication offers policy and practical guidelines for implementing gender-sensitive risk reduction efforts.

The purpose of this toolkit is to help tribal child welfare workers and care providers play an effective role in the prevention of suicide among the children and youth they serve. It addresses key youth suicide prevention questions and contains background reading on the issue of suicide in Indian Country and the use of cultural approaches to prevention and community healing.

These tribal provisions were proposed by the Justice Department in 2011.

In Public Law 280 (PL 280) jurisdictions, the concurrent jurisdiction of state and tribal courts over criminal prosecutions and civil actions arising in Indian Country creates even more interactions and complications.

To assist in the planning process, in the summer and fall of 2011, NCTCC partnered with the Center for Court Innovation (CCI), a national technical assistance provider funded separately by OVW, to develop and implement surveys and focus groups regarding experiences with domestic violence in Tribal communities throughout the Northern California region. The NCTCCs mission is to promote and strengthen tribal justice systems to restore balance and order, while honoring sovereignty and cultural values.

The writer assumes the reader is not familiar with the material herein. The original theme for the panel was Ðissues that impact rural American Indian women.

The State of Alaska Task Force on the Crimes of Human Trafficking, Promoting Prostitution and Sex Trafficking was established by legislation in 2012 to do the following: (1) look at the prevalence of the crimes of human trafficking and sex trafficking in Alaska; (2) assess the current services available to victims of human and sex trafficking; and (3) make recommendations for ways to further assist victims. This report is the final culmination of the task force's work and includes the task force's final recommendations.

Although Plan B is legal as an “over the counter” (OTC) contraceptive for women age 17 years old and up, Native American women do not have consistent access to it from the Indian Health Service. This report features the voices of Native American women from a diverse number of Tribes as they discuss their personal experiences with sexual assault and access to healthcare either as a victim or as a service provider.

The Indian Health Service has a long history of providing reproductive health services to Native American women in a manner that challenges a woman’s right to services and violates her basic human rights.