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Article concludes that children’s asthma is associated with reduced parental employment among single parents and increased welfare receipt among single- and 2-parent families. These associations with children’s asthma may have implications for policy makers interested in increasing employment and decreasing welfare use.

CITATION:
The Association of Childhood Asthma with Parental Employment and Welfare Receipt. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association.  Winter 2002.  LA Smith, JL Hatcher & R Wertheimer.

Study concluded that welfare recipients and applicants with chronically ill children face substantial barriers to employment, including high child health care use rates and missed work. The welfare reform reauthorization scheduled to occur later in 2002 should address
the implications of chronic child illness for parental employment.

CITATION:
Employment Barriers Among Welfare Recipients and Applicants with Chronically Ill Children.  American Journal of Public Health.   2002; 92 (9): 1453-1457.   LA Smith, D Romero, PR Wood, NS Wampler, W Chavkin & PH Wise.

The National Center is developing a framework for conceptualizing how unmet legal needs affect health and developmental outcomes for children and families. The framework will provide an adaptable logic model that links program activities to the mechanisms through which disparities may develop and through which the program can effect positive change.

The emerging framework draws on a variety of efforts including this 2007 concept mapping project by Cornell University and MLP | Boston and related localized projects and academic papers.

Each year, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership surveys partnership sites across the country on a range of topics from funding to evaluation to program challenges.

The 2008 medical-legal partnership site survey report shares data from 54 partnerships in the MLP Network.