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In 1940, the United States passed the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act, known as the Lanham Act, which gave the Federal Works Agency the authority to fund the construction of houses, schools and other infrastructure for laborers in the growing defense industry.
In 1940, the United States passed the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act, known as the Lanham Act, which gave the Federal Works Agency the authority to fund the construction of houses, schools and other infrastructure for laborers in the growing defense industry. It was not specifically meant to fund childcare, but in late 1942, the government used it to fund temporary day care centers for the children of mothers working wartime jobs.
Photographed by Gordon Parks for Office of War Information, June 1943.
As the war ended in August 1945, the Federal Works Agency announced it would stop funding childcare as soon as possible.
Ruth Pease opened the Little Red School House in 1945 in response to the country's request for help in meeting the child care needs of the post-war community.
Despite receiving letters and petitions urging the continuation of the childcare programs, the United States government stopped funding them in 1946.
The Pre-Law Summer Institute—a multi-week online and residential program launched in 1968—is designed to introduce students to the skills, knowledge and values essential to their success in law school, including self-directed learning, legal reasoning, writing and the Socratic teaching method.
In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, which would have established nationally-funded, locally-administered childcare centers.
1972: WIC was piloted as a supplemental food program aimed at improving the health of pregnant mothers, infants and children in response to growing concern over malnutrition among many poverty-stricken mothers and young children.
1974: WIC was operating in 45 States.
1975: Eligibility was extended to nonbreastfeeding women (up to 6 months postpartum) and children up to age 5.
1975: WIC was established as a permanent Program by legislation P.L. 94-105.
2. In 1976, the Federal government changed the beginning of the fiscal year from July 1 to October 1, hence the 1976 Transition (T) Quarter.
1978: Legislation introduced new elements into the Program: Nutrition education must be provided.
1992: WIC introduced an enhanced food package for exclusively breastfeeding mothers to further promote breastfeeding.
1997: USDA implemented Loving Support Makes Breastfeeding Work campaign to increase breastfeeding rates among WIC mothers and improve public support of breastfeeding.
2004: The Breastfeeding Peer Counselor initiative was launched: Women with breastfeeding experience and training (often past WIC participants) became counselors to support other women learning to breastfeed.
Avellar, S., Dion, M. R., Zaveri, H. H., & Hershey, A. M. (2006). Early Lessons from the Building Strong Families Project (No. f5e93daad9bb40958e245f41ecc2be4b). Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research.
Since 2006, HMRE programs have reached diverse populations with interest in attending HMRE programs, ranging from unmarried, expectant parents (studied in BSF), to married couples with low incomes (in SHM), to single adults participating in the STREAMS evaluation.
3. Excludes $50M provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
2009: Based on Institute of Medicine recommendations, USDA introduced a new food package with foods consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for American and established dietary recommendations for infants and children over two years of age.
Authorized by the 2010 CRA (P.L. 111-291), priority populations were similar to prior cohorts and focused on couples with low-incomes and individuals receiving government assistance.
The second cohort of HMRE programs began in 2011.
Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Administration for Children and Families (2011). Community-Centered Healthy Marriage and Relationship Grants, HHS-2011-ACF-OFA-FM-0193.
Bir, A., Robert, L. Kofke-Egger, H., Nichols, A. & Smith, K. (2012). The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative: Impacts of a Community Approach to Strengthening Families, Technical Supplement.
OPRE Report #2012-28A. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Lundquist, E., Hsueh, J., Lowenstein, A. E., Faucetta, K., Gubits, D., Michalopoulos, C., & Knox, V. (2014). A family-strengthening program for low-income families: Final impacts from the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation.
Krieger, K., McKay, T., Grove, L., & Bir, A. (2016). Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Healthy Relationship Programs: Current Approaches. (RIViR Paper #2: Current Approaches). OPRE Report #2016-41.
Zaveri, H., & Baumgartner, S. (2016). Parents and Children Together: Design and Implementation of Two Healthy Marriage Programs.
Scott, M. E., Karberg, E., Huz, I. & Oster, M. (2017). Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Youth: An In-depth Study of Federally Funded Programs.
Funded by EOPC in 2018-19, the pilot year of the program engaged 42 students.
In Summer 2018, weekly symposiums will be held on the topics of financial literacy, motivation, mental health, student information panel, and social interaction.
D. & Paulsell, D. (2018). Research to Practice Brief.
Renewed funding will support Abington’s efforts to build on this success and use lessons learned to improve the program in AY 2019-20.
OFA is continuing its commitment to supporting youth and adult individuals, couples, and families through a new cohort of HMRE grants awarded in September 2020.
The ACHIEVE Summer Bridge: Facilitating Access and Success at Penn State Abington (Abington)Abington seeks seed funding for a new summer bridge program for incoming first year ACHIEVE students in Summer 2020.
D’Angelo, A. V. & Bodenlos, K. (2020). Empowering Families: Implementation of an Integrated HMRE, Employment, and Financial Literacy Program for Low-Income Couples.
McKay, T. E., Kan, M. L., Brinton, J. E., Berzofsky, M. E., Biemer, P., Edwards, S. L., Landwehr, J., Krieger, K., & Bir, A. (2020). Opportunities for Teen Dating Violence Disclosure in Youth-Serving Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) Programs.
OPRE Report 2020-79 Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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