Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
Focus on Poverty, IRP’s flagship online publication, includes brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. The collection is prepared for educators, policymakers, policy analysts, and state and federal officials. Each issue is accompanied by Focus on Poverty Classroom Supplement, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links on the topics covered in Focus on Poverty.
Resources

Maryland’s approach to the opioid crisis
- Randi Walters and Brandi Stocksdale
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- May 2020

The response of state courts to the opioid crisis
- Deborah Taylor Tate
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- May 2020

Ohio’s actions to address the opioid crisis
- Kimberly Hall
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- May 2020

Supporting treatment and recovery in human services programs
- Barbara Ramlow and Carl Leukefeld
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- May 2020

Focus & Focus+ 36(2), May 2020
Human services programs and the opioid crisis, Part 2
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- May 2020

Focus & Focus+ 36(1), February 2020
Human services programs and the opioid crisis, Part 1
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020

Human services programs and the opioid crisis
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020

Understanding the needs of families during the opioid crisis
- Stephen W. Patrick
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020

Interactions between human services programs and the opioid crisis: Adolescents and young adults
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020

Interactions between human services programs and the opioid crisis: Child welfare
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020