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The Two-Generation (2Gen) Approach Strengthening Family and Parent Support January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018 January 24, 2018 January 25, 2018 2 January 10, 2018 January 24, 2018 Merideth Bastiani, Manager of the Child Care Subsidy Program,

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Strengthening Family and Parent Support

The Two-Generation (2Gen) Approach

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January 25, 2018 2 January 10, 2018 Merideth Bastiani, Manager of the Child Care Subsidy Program, OCFS-Division of Child Care Services Jacqueline Hall, Executive Director of Social Services Family Independence, Erie County Department of Social Services Jim Hart, Director of Program Operations, OCFS-Division of Child Care Services Pou Mok, Excelsior Service Fellow, OTDA Bureau of Employment and Advancement Services Sandra Neubert, Director of Employment Programs, , Erie County Department of Social Services

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What is 2Gen?

The two-generation (2Gen) approach, is a continuum that focuses on addressing the needs of vulnerable children and their parents together.

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What is 2Gen?

  • The 2Gen approach focuses holistically on supporting

the entire family system.

  • The goal is to end the cycle-of-poverty by putting the

whole family on the path to economic success and self- sufficiency.

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What is 2Gen?

  • Research shows that programs that support parents and

children jointly provide better outcomes than those that independently focus on just children or parents.

  • Research also shows that investing in high-quality early

childhood education yields a 7-10% return on investment (ROI), based on school and career readiness and reduced social costs.

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What is 2Gen?

  • Programs that support parents and children jointly provide

better outcomes than those that independently focus on just children or parents.

  • Investing in high-quality early childhood education yields a 7-

10% return on investment.

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What is 2Gen?

Experts believe that we should shift of our approach on the cycle of poverty toward creating a cycle of opportunity. The core components of this should focus on:

  • Early childhood education
  • Postsecondary education
  • Employment pathways
  • Economic assets
  • Health and well-being
  • Social capital

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What is 2Gen?

  • Funding 2Gen programs can yield better outcomes for

families and maximize the financial investment.

  • Communities can also play a broad role in supporting

2Gen practices by integrating educational, employment and social institutions to increase family well-being. Once the well-being of the family improves, a continuum evolves where the family is able to positively contribute back to the community.

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What is 2Gen?

Examples of 2Gen programs in NYS: – Child Care Subsidy Program – NYS Close to Home initiative – Healthy Families NY- Home Visiting Program – Advantage and Empire After School Programs – Head Start Programs – Community Hubs

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Child Care Subsidy as a 2Gen Approach

Subsidized Child Care in New York State FFY 2017

  • $799 Million allocated to local districts
  • ~182,000 children in 112,000 families (annual)
  • ~121,000 children in 72,000 families (monthly)
  • ~64% of children served are from NYC.
  • ~49% of children served received low income subsidies
  • ~51% of children with child care subsidies also received TA
  • ~19,000 legally exempt providers enrolled to provide subsidized child

care

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Child Care Subsidy as a 2Gen Approach

  • The nature of employment among the working poor can make

it difficult to raise children, creating great hurdles for parents who are trying to better their lives and their children’s.

  • Child care subsidy is an important component of a 2Gen

approach in that it can help mitigate some of these hurdles including

– Varying schedules – Availability of care – Family and cultural beliefs and expectations

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Child Care Subsidy as a 2Gen Approach

FDC GFDC DCC/SACC LE Family and In- Home LE Group 5% 31% 36% 22% 6% Children with Subsidies (%)

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Child Care Subsidy as a 2Gen Approach

  • Supporting the developmental needs of children while also

supporting their parents’ ability to parent and to improve their livelihood – Linking families to child care (subsidy, referral) – Policies to address homeless families, non-traditional hours and parental choice – Training requirements for subsidized child care providers – Oversight of regulated programs – Union grants – CCRR contracts

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Regulatory Framework and 2Gen

New York’s Regulatory Framework is Consistent with 2Gen:

Protect the health and safety of children in child care; help parents make informed consumer choices and access information to support child development; provide equal access to stable, high-quality child care for low-income children; and enhance the quality of child care and the early childhood workforce. ✓ Fraud Regulations/Initiatives ✓ Needs of Homeless Families ✓ Differential and Enhanced Rates ✓ Health and Safety Training Requirements

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Implementing a 2Gen Approach:

  • Promoting 2Gen may be

emergent or intentional

  • Promoting the good practice

where it exists

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2Gen Opportunities in TANF Employment and Training

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Poverty in New York State

New Yorkers living in poverty (2017):

  • 15.5% of all individuals (over 3 million people)
  • 21.7% of all children (under 18)
  • 38.4% of all families with female heads of household and

children present TANF caseload statistics (as of October 2017):

  • 95,588 TANF cases
  • 215,099 TANF recipients

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Importance of the 2Gen Dynamic

Meeting the needs of children and their parents together:

  • The income, educational attainment, and well-being of

parents play a crucial role in children’s outcomes

  • Services for children help parents balance the demands
  • f work and parenting by lessening their stress and

supporting child and family wellbeing

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2Gen and TANF

Applying a 2Gen philosophy to TANF:

  • Access to the economic and social supports needed for stability

and resilience and healthy child development

  • Linking high quality educational services for children and

workforce development services for their parents

  • Programmatic efforts to help parents gain the skills, knowledge,

and resources to support their child’s development

  • Help families build social capital that can support both resilience

and upward mobility.

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2Gen As an Approach to Designing and Running Programs – Not Starting a New Program

Services for Parents

  • Occupational training
  • High school equivalency
  • Post-secondary education
  • ESL classes
  • Financial literacy
  • Parenting skills
  • Home visits
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Health services

Services for Children

  • Child care
  • Head Start
  • Early childhood

education

  • Home visits
  • Health services

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Coordination and Partnerships

  • More than just a referral
  • Coordination across programs for parents and programs for children
  • Shifting burden of coordination away from parents
  • Examples:

– Coinciding the schedule for a workforce or education program with the schedule of a Head Start or children’s program – Co-locating parent and child services such as providing a job skills class in a child care center – Aligned family goal-setting for TANF families with children enrolled in Head Start program

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Flexibility under TANF Block Grant

  • Flexible Fund for Family Services (FFFS)
  • Allocated to each district to support a range of services to

address the needs of low income families consistent with local priorities: – Employment services – Work supports – Tuition assistance – Child care – Case management services

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Workforce Development and Family Support

  • Erie County DSS
  • 5,800 TANF cases and 14,164 TANF recipients
  • Multi-purpose community centers:

– Workforce development – Child care services – Wrap-around support for families

  • Jacqueline Hall, Executive Director of Social Services Family

Independence

  • Sandra Neubert, Director Employment Programs

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Belle Center in Erie County

Belle Center Video Link

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Topics of Discussion

  • Background on the community centers in Erie

County

  • Funding and operation
  • DSS involvement and coordination
  • Co-locating work activities and children services
  • Other available family support and services

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2Gen Implementation

  • An approach, not a program or single initiative
  • Responsibility is on programs, systems, and policies rather than on parents
  • Integrating existing child and family support funding into the 2G framework
  • Building and sustaining processes that focus on family outcomes

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Discussion

ASCEND- Two Generations One Future Video

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THANK YOU

Resources/ References:

  • Aspen Institute Ascend: http://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/two-generation/what-is-2gen/
  • ASCEND 2GEN TOOLBOX: https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/resources/2gen-toolbox/
  • Project 2Gen: https://www.bctr.cornell.edu/projects/project-2gen/
  • Strengthening TANF Outcomes by Developing Two-Generation Approaches to Build Economic Security,

TANF-ACF-IM-2016-03,http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/tanf-acf-im-2016-03

  • Thriving Children, Successful Parents: A Two-Generation Approach to Policy; CLASP:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED561729.pdf

  • TWO GENERATIONS, ONE FUTURE moving parents and children beyond poverty together

https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/docs/ascend/Ascend-Report-022012.pdf

  • US Department of Education:

http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/publications/materials/Two%20Generation%20Approaches%20Paper %20052716.pdf

  • Top Ten for 2Gen: Policy Ideas & Principles to Advance Two-Generation Efforts, by Anne Mosle, Nisha

Patel, and Jennifer Stedron, Ascend at the Aspen Institute, October 2014, http://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/pages/top10

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