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is neither centrally located nor easily findable, and application portals are often clumsy, confusing, duplicative, and outdated.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.

美国有近 20% 的五岁以下儿童生活在贫困中。为了支持这些儿童，美国政府资助了各种社会安全网计划，为许多家庭提供营养、医疗保健、幼儿教育和额外收入。这些计划为参与的儿童带来了长期的学术、健康和经济利益。然而，这些计划由州和地方各级管理，由多个机构负责，导致申请流程独立且通常很繁琐。关于计划和资格的信息既不集中也不容易申请门户网站往往笨拙、混乱、重复和过时，这些可用性问题可能会阻碍他们参与有益的计划，如果不努力简化和简化家庭的申请流程，许多目标贫困儿童就不可能获得所有的帮助。为了解决这个问题，该项目将为路易斯安那州家庭开发一个简化的申请门户，他们可以在其中申请支持低收入儿童的多个计划，而无需重复努力。该项目的目标是改进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注册率 该团队通过在当前改善路易斯安那州 SNAP 申请的用户体验的基础上实现这些目标。该奖项启用了新的 SNAP 试点申请，该申请将提供随机选择的服务。符合条件的家庭可以选择自动将其 SNAP 申请信息和文件发送到路易斯安那州 WIC 和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申请对 WIC 和新奥尔良公立学校申请率的因果影响。幼儿教育计划。与当地机构领导人和利益相关者的访谈将确定大规模开发和维护简化应用程序的必要要素。CIVIC 创新挑战赛是与能源部、国土安全部和国家科学基金会的合作。该项目由联合资助由 CISE-CIVIC INNOVATION、SBE-S&CC、刺激竞争研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 以及能源部、国土安全部颁发。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。