Investing in Children and Parents: Fostering Dual-Generation Strategies in the United States

By contrasting dual investment strategies with single-generation investment strategies, the authors highlight the key components of dual-generation strategies for parents and children. The authors also outline some of the key challenges and opportunities encountered by dual-generation strategies. In addition, they provide an agenda for dual-generation strategies and possible next steps for pushing that agenda forward (p.2). (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

• Opportunities for pursuing dual-generation investment strategies include evidence-based policymaking and program design, federal legislative reauthorizations, availability of flexible sources, and supportive state policy structures (p.16-18). • Challenges confronting the implementation of dual-generation strategies include policy and program inertia, differing provider cultures and ‘baggage’, absence of high-level policy coordination, conflicting goals and performance expectations, varying funding mechanisms, and resource limitations (p.12-16). • “A dual-generation investment strategy agenda needs to encompass at least three major elements: policy, program and research” (p.23). (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2011
• Author(s): King, Christopher T.; Smith, Tara C.; Glover, Robert W.
• Organizational Author(s): The Ray Marshall Center for Human Resources at the University of Texas at Austin
• Funding Source: Foundation for Child Development
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
• Posted by: Wesley Peterson
• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies