Research

The Health and Human Service Integration Oportunity Toolkit: Enhanced Federal Funding to Support Eligibility Systems Available for Limited Time

A breakdown of the funding matches that the federal government is providing for the development of health care exchanges and eligibility systems. 

The Health and Human Service Integration Oportunity Toolkit: Short List of Oportunities

This document summarizes tangible ways that states can maximize enrollment in heath and human service programs.

The Health and Human Service Integration Oportunity Toolkit: Five Reasons to Integrate Human Services into Health Care Reform Now

A guide to the most compelling reasons for states to act now in receiving federal funding to make their citizens healthier and their government more effiecient.

The Health and Human Service Integration Oportunity Toolkit: What's in the Affordable Care Act

A brief overview of this game-changing legislation with a focus on what it says in regards to state human service programs

How Human Services Programs and Their Clients Can Benefit from National Health Reform Legislation

by Stan Dorn
In this paper from the Coalition for Access and Opportunity (co-conveyned by CLASP, First Focus and Single Stop USA), Urban Institute expert Stan Dorn examines the time-sensitive possibilities for state health and human service integration under the Affordable Care Act.  The paper outlines innovative ways states can build modernized systems, improving efficiency and how they serve clients, under the legislation. 

"Single Stop Shares its Big Idea About Community Colleges"

by Elisabeth Mason & Julie Kashen
 
"A New Era of Partnerships: Report of Recommendations to the President"
President's Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, March 2010.
 
Randy Albelda and Heather Boushey, "Bridging the Gaps: A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States"
Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Center for Social Policy, 2007.
 
"An Integrated Approach to Fostering Family Economic Success: How Three Model Sites are Implementing the Center for Working Families Approach"
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2010.
 
Nancy K. Cauthen, "Improving Work Supports: Closing the Financial Gap for Low-Wage Workers and their Families,"
Economic Policy Institute, Agenda for Shared Prosperity, 2007.
 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Simplifying Programs: Aligning Policies and Procedures in Benefit Programs.
 
Stan Dorn, "How Policymakers Can Use Automation to Help Families and Children,"
Big Ideas for Children, First Focus, 2008.
 
Tom Freedman and Michael Weinstein, "Helping Americans Help Themselves: Toward a National Single Stop Policy and More Efficient, More Effective Poverty Fighting,"
the Democratic Leadership Council, 2010.
 
Big Ideas - Julie Kashen and Elisabeth Mason, "Out of the Desert: An Integrated Approach to Ending Child Poverty,"
Big Ideas for Children, First Focus, 2008.
 
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
 
Jessica Purmort, "Making Work Supports Work: A Picture of Low-wage Workers in America"
National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 2010.
 
"The Safety Net's Response to the Recession" CLASP testimony to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
Committee on Ways and Means, 2009.
 
Liz Schott, "Applying Online: Using Technology to Enroll Low-wage Workers in Public Benefits,"
Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Vol. 4 (Winter 2009).
 
Arloc Sherman, "Safety Net Effective at Fighting Poverty But Has Weakened for the Very Poorest,"
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2009.
 
Kay Sherwood, "Helping Low-wage Workers Access Work Supports"
MDRC, 2009
 
Laura Summer, "Express Lane Eligibility: New Strategies for Increasing Enrollment"
National Council on Aging, National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment, 2009.
 
Laura Summer, "Using Data-Driven Strategies to Enhance Benefits Outreach, Enrollment, and Retention Activities"
National Council on Aging, National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment, 2009.
 
Laura Summer, "Retaining Benefits: An Important Aspect of Increasing Enrollment" National Council on Aging
National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment, 2009.
 
Shelley Waters-Boots, "Improving Access to Public Benefits: Helping Families and Individuals Get the Income Supports They Need"
Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, and Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2010.
 
Sheila Zedlewski, Gina Adams, Lisa Dubay, and Genevieve Kenney, "Is there a System Supporting Low-Income Working Families?"
Urban Institute, 2006.
 
Press Coverage
Jason DeParle, "Living on Nothing but Food Stamps,"
The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2010.
 
Jason DeParle, "For Victims of Recession, Patchwork State Aid,"
The New York Times, May 9, 2009.