SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B: Streamlining and Supporting Access to Public Assistance Programs in Louisiana

SCC-CIVIC-FA 轨道 B：简化和支持路易斯安那州的公共援助计划

• 批准号: 2322214
• 负责人: Lindsay Weixler
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; FA; Track; Streamlining

Nearly 20% of children under age five in the US live in poverty. To support these children, the US government funds various social safety-net programs to provide nutrition, healthcare, early childhood education, and additional income for families. Research on many of these programs demonstrates long-term academic, health, and economic benefits to participating children. However, these programs, which are administered at the state and local levels, are divided among multiple agencies, resulting in separate, and typically cumbersome, application processes. Information on programs and eligibility is neither centrally located nor easily findable, and application portals are often clumsy, confusing, duplicative, and outdated. These usability problems can hinder participation in beneficial programs. Without targeted efforts to simplify and streamline the application process for families, many young children in poverty are unlikely to receive all the benefits of the critical health and education programs for which they are eligible. To address this issue, this project will develop a streamlined application portal for Louisiana families, in which they can apply for multiple programs that support low-income children without duplicating efforts. This project's aims are to improve and streamline the benefits application process for Louisiana families and to increase enrollment rates in participating programs. The team achieves these aims by building on current efforts to improve user experiences in Louisiana’s SNAP application. This award enables a new pilot SNAP application, which will offer randomly selected eligible families the option to automatically send their SNAP application information and documents to Louisiana WIC and to New Orleans Public Schools’ early childhood education programs. Through this randomized design, this project can identify the causal effects of the streamlined application on application rates to WIC and early childhood education programs. Interviews with local agency leaders and stakeholders will identify the necessary elements to develop and maintain a streamlined application at scale.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation.This project is jointly funded by CISE-CIVIC INNOVATION, SBE-S&CC, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在美国，近20％的五岁儿童生活在贫困中。为了支持这些孩子，美国政府为各种社会安全网计划提供了资金，以提供营养，医疗保健，幼儿教育和家庭的额外收入。对许多计划的许多研究都证明了参与儿童的长期学术，健康和经济利益。但是，这些计划在州和地方级别进行管理，分为多个机构，从而产生单独的，通常繁琐的申请流程。有关程序和资格的信息是中心位置的，也可以很容易找到，并且应用门户经常是群集，令人困惑，重复和过时的。这些可用性问题可能会妨碍参与福利计划。如果没有针对性的努力简化和简化家庭的申请过程，许多贫困中的幼儿就不太可能获得符合条件的关键健康和教育计划的所有好处。为了解决这个问题，该项目将为路易斯安那州的家庭开发简化的应用程序门户，其中他们可以申请支持低收入儿童而无需重复努力的多个计划。该项目的目的是改善和简化路易斯安那州家庭的福利申请流程，并提高参与计划的入学率。该团队通过建立目前在路易斯安那州的SNAP应用程序中的用户体验来实现这些目标。该奖项可实现新的试点SNAP申请，该申请将为随机选择的合格家庭自动选择将其SNAP申请信息和文件发送给路易斯安那州WIC以及新奥尔良公立学校的幼儿教育计划。通过这种随机设计，该项目可以确定简化应用程序对WIC和幼儿教育计划的应用率的因果影响。 Interviews with local agency leaders and stakeholders will identify the necessary elements to develop and maintain a streamlined application at scale.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation.This project is jointly funded by CISE-CIVIC INNOVATION, SBE-S&CC, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security.This award reflects NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。