The Two-Generation (2Gen) Approach - OCFS ppts/2018-NYPWA-2Gen-Presentation.pdfChild Care Subsidy as...
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Strengthening Family and Parent Support
The Two-Generation (2Gen) Approach
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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 ApproachFDC
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 StateNew 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
of work and parenting by lessening their stress and
supporting child and family wellbeing
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2Gen and TANFApplying 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 YOUResources/ 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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