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2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)

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Table 53. Use of Selected Services by Mothers in Glades and Non-Glades TGA at Year 5 aService Area% AllMothers% Glades % Non-Glades % Outside TGAs(N=310) (n=38) (n=232) (n=40)Healthcare for mother or children 86 95 85 85Getting enough food* 72 84 71 60Dental care 59 76 57 55Childcare (including subsidy)* 41 71 37 39<strong>Family</strong> planning or birth control 25 13 27 25Paying rent or bills 15 18 16 12Housing or emergency shelter b 11 16 9 15Mental health or substance abuse 10 11 9 17Legal issues* 6 5 5 15Parenting information 8 11 7 8Transportation 7 5 8 5Employment 9 11 10 3Translating things into English(n=142)9 0 11 0Clothes for children 5 5 5 5Domestic violence* 3 3 2 8aData were weighted to adjust for oversampling of mothers from the Glades and mothers screened “at risk.”b<strong>The</strong> year 1 survey had one item combining housing and emergency shelter, which was separated into two items in all subsequentsurveys; they are combined in this analysis.*Denotes z-test of column proportions (or t-test of means where applicable) statistically significant at p < .10 or lower: food(1) vs.food(3); childcare(1) vs. childcare(2); childcare(1) vs. childcare(3); legal(3) vs. legal(2); domesticviolence(3) vs. domesticviolence(2).Service Needs and Help-Seeking in Year 5<strong>The</strong> survey also asked mothers who did not receive help in a particular service area during the previousyear if they had had a concern in that area and, if so, whether they had tried to get help for that concern.<strong>The</strong>ir responses are presented in the next two tables. First, Table 54 shows the percentage of the group ofmothers who did not get help in a particular area but said they had a concern in that area. Healthcare wasthe area mentioned most frequently among mothers not receiving services. In addition, almost 4 in 10mothers cited dental care as a concern, while about a quarter of mothers indicated concerns with respectto childcare, paying rent or bills, getting enough food, translating things into English, and employment.Ten to fifteen percent of mothers indicated concerns in the areas of housing or emergency shelter, legalissues, transportation, and mental health or substance abuse, while less than 10 percent indicated concernsin the remaining areas. Only small percentages of the mothers reported not receiving help for needsrelated to their children’s health or development. <strong>The</strong> largest area of concern with respect to childdevelopment was help with anger issues, mentioned by 6 percent of mothers with school-age children.Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 98

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