

Two-generation approaches draw from findings that the well-being of parents is crucial to their children’s social-emotional, physical and economic well-being. This approach, commonly known as two-generation, intergenerational, multi-generational or whole-family strategies, simultaneously address the needs of parents and children to improve outcomes for the whole family. Nebraska Intergenerational Poverty Task Force, Final Report, 2016Ī new approach to help families break the cycle of poverty is taking hold in states across the country. Two-generation approaches focus on the needs of both generations to interrupt the cycle of poverty.” “The general pattern has been to focus programs on adults or focus programs on children but rarely, if ever, on both at the same time, resulting in fragmented approaches that leave one or the other behind.


