Jane Mosley

To determine decision-making factors for infant sleep position among low-income parents and other relatives. Data were collected from 18 focus groups conducted with low-income parents and relatives of infants across the state of Missouri. That the decision-making process regarding infant sleep practices was complex. Although most participants are f...

The purposes of this report are twofold. We first review the literature on factors related to job satisfaction and feelings of burnout among frontline family workers. We then describe the background, implementation, and evaluation of The Missouri Family Development Credential (MO FDC) Program, a strengths-based, capacity-building program which educ...

Poverty rates are highest in the most urban and most rural areas of the United States and are higher in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas. Yet perhaps because only one-fifth of the nation's 35 million poor people live in nonmetro areas, rural poverty has received less attention than urban poverty from both policy makers and researchers. The a...

This study documents reliance on the private and public food safety net in the Kansas City metropolitan area. While the use of food pantries is widespread, the frequency of food pantry use is low compared to food stamp use. However, almost 60 percent of food pantry recipients also received food stamps at some time during the studied period. Between...

Introduction and Background In this brief, we present preliminary findings from a quantitative evaluation of the Missouri Family Development Training and Credentialing Program (MO FDC). The MO FDC is designed to reorient human service practice to the family support approach. It is part of a growing nationwide movement whose goal is to empower both...

This study uses a unique database to examine the trend in the use of food pantries in the Kansas City metropolitan area from 1997 to 2000. We find a slight increase in the use of food pantry services over this period, less than one percent annually. This is a much smaller increase than has been reported in other studies, but consistent with recent...

Health Overall, most children were rated in excellent or good health. Only 15% of children, regardless of age, were considered by parents to be in fair or poor health. The vast majority of children were rated as having the same health as the previous year. However, a substantial percent of children had been to the emergency room in the past year du...

This chapter examines the degree of self-sufficiency and the need for sustained income supports among leavers in Missouri.

We used data from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Household to investigate changes in mothering behavior associated with remarriage or cohabitation by single mothers. We considered three dimensions of mothering: (a) time and supervision, (b) harsh discipline, and (c) relationship quality. Mothers and children agreed that mothers wh...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA) , passed in August 1996, made sweeping changes in both of the major means-tested cash programs for low income Americans, Aid with Families to Dependent Children (AFDC) and the Supplemental Security Income program (SSI). Because the magnitude of change was more sweeping within the AFDC pr...

investigate effects of poverty and minority status on mothering and fathering in original 2-parent families, that is, families in which children are either born to or adopted by both parents / because single parenthood is strongly associated with poverty and race, this decision eliminates a considerable proportion of poor and/or black families from...

Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1997. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-192).