We are pleased to announce the release of our new website, Management Assistance for Child Welfare, Work First, and Food & Nutrition Services in North Carolina at http://ssw.unc.edu/ma/. We have combined information for social services programs from three different websites into one completely redesigned website with a more user-friendly interface.

In addition to an updated look for the website, there are several new features that include:

¨ Data are organized into a helpful “file cabinet” system. Each drawer represents a different social services program and users can easily move from one program to another.

¨ The ability to print data tables and charts to a PDF file or print from the screen.

¨ A helpful button at the top of the page that allows users to select data for a certain region, such as North Carolina as a whole or a particular county, and easily switch to another region without going back to the main page.

We have also added new content:

Child Welfare

¨ Information on youth aging out of foster care.

¨ More detailed information on foster care placement types, such as therapeutic foster homes and jail, detention or runaway.


Work First

¨ The Work First Experiences Report, which includes state and county participation rates, the number of adults entering employment and scheduled activities information.


We hope that the new look and features of the website make it easier for users to access data about children and families served by social services programs in North Carolina. Please note that our old websites for child welfare (http://ssw.unc.edu/cw/), Work First (http://ssw.unc.edu/workfirst/), and Food & Nutrition Services (http://ssw.unc.edu/foodstamps/) will only remain active until October 2009.

Please contact Joy Stewart at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with any questions.

Thank you,

Dean Duncan

Hye-Chung Kum

Kimberly Flair

C. Joy Stewart

Kelly Van Busum

Jennie Vaughn

About Us

With the support and collaboration of the North Carolina Division of Social Services, staff and faculty at the Jordan Institute for Families at the UNC-CH School of Social Work established and maintain a public website with performance data for three major social services programs including child welfare, Food and Nutrition Services (formerly Food Stamps) and Work First (TANF). The website is unique in the use of longitudinal data on individuals and families to track outcomes over time and in updating available information on a monthly basis.

C. Joy Stewart, MSW

Jordan Institute for Families

UNC-CH School of Social Work

325 Pittsboro Street; CB# 3550

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550

(919) 962-6500

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