Rural Families Speak Project
The goal of the Rural Families Speak project, funded in part by a NIFA grant, is to add to the multidimensional understanding of rural low-income families over time. In rural areas, family life is at the core of the rural community. The functioning of the family is important not only to the immediate family, but also to the well-being and viability of the rural community. Tracking changes in rural families across time is vital in the face of changing economic conditions and federal and state policies related to public assistance.
The project is a Multistate Longitudinal Research Project (NC-223: October 1, 1998 to September 30, 2003) with researchers from California, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, and Wyoming. The second phase, NC-1011, (October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2008) continues the research of NC-223 with researchers from the original group of states with two exceptions; Colorado and Wyoming have left the group and Iowa, South Dakota, West Virginia have joined the group. This research is supported in part by USDA/NIFA/NRICGP Grant 2001-35401-10215, 2002-35401-11591 and 2004-35401-14938. All the states have supported the data collection and preparation of the data set.
The third phase of the project is NC 1171, “Interactions of individual, family, community, and policy contexts on the mental and physical health of diverse rural low-income families.” This phase focuses on the dynamic interactions among individual, family, community, and policy contexts on the physical and mental health outcomes for rural low-income families and extends the previous research conducted within the multistate projects NC 223 and NC 1011. NC 1171 (October 01, 2008 to September 30, 2013) includes researchers from California, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming.
Related Links:
- Description
of States
Includes all the states involved and a brief description of the families
in the study.
- Publications
Publications are organized by major topic areas, including the project basebook,
policy briefs, dissertations and theses, refereed journal articles and
book chapters, conferences presentations and proceedings, and other papers.
- Resources
Links to sites and other related information, including databases and statistics,
films, government, policy, and rural sites, research organizations, and
welfare reform information.
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