Author: Sofya BagdasaryanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
CalWORKs Sanction Policies in Four Counties
Author: Sofya BagdasaryanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Assessing Barriers to Work Among CalWORKS Participants in San Joaquin County
Author: Jean NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Welfare recipients
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy
Author: Richard HoeferPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0789033674
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The international contributors to this text present the various interpretations of 'welfare-to-work' in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong, and on the role social work plays in creating and implementing social welfare policies.
Struggling in the Land of Plenty
Author: Anne R. RoschellePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1793600775
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender inequality contributed to the rise in family homelessness and the devastating consequences for parents and their children. Struggling in the Land of Plenty analyzes the appalling conditions under which homeless women and children live, the violence endemic to their lives, the role of the welfare state in perpetrating poverty, and their never-ending struggle for survival.
Biennial Report
Author: California Policy Research CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Welfare Reform in California
Author: Jacob Alex KlermanPublisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This report describes the implementation of California's Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in its first two years. According to the CalWORKs welfare-to-work model, immediately following the approval of the aid application, nearly all recipients search for jobs in the context of Job Clubs. For those who do not find employment through job search, an intensive assessment and a sequence of activities follow, to identify and overcome barriers to employment. Implementation in most counties is proceeding more slowly than some observers had hoped, but about as fast as could realistically be expected. County welfare districts (CWDs) face the dual challenge of expanding their capacity to deal with the new, higher, steady-state workload that CalWORKs entails and handling the much larger one-time surge of old cases as they move through the system. Providing mandated support services--child care and transportation; education and training; and treatment for alcohol and substance abuse, mental health, and domestic abuse--has been a challenge for most CWDs. To cope with this expanded workload, they have made different capacity-building decisions. The slow pace of movement through the system is worrisome, however, given the five-year lifetime limit that aid recipients face. Finally, those who have found jobs often do not earn enough to move them completely off aid and toward self-sufficiency. Additional post-employment services appear to be needed.. (MP)
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe
Author: Joel F. HandlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521541534
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans maintain that workfare is the best method of bringing the socially excluded back into mainstream society. Although there are differences in terms of ideology and practice, Joel F. Handler argues that there are also significant similarities, especially field-level practices that serve to exclude those who are the least employable or lack other qualifications that agencies favor. The author also examines strategies for reform, including protective labor legislation, the Open Method of Coordination, the reform of social and employment services, and concludes with an argument for a basic income guarantee, which would not only alleviate poverty but also provide clients with an exit option.
Families in Society
Author: Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery
Author: Gary L. FisherPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412950848
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1153
Book Description
This collection provides authoritative coverage of neurobiology of addiction, models of addiction, sociocultural perspectives on drug use, family and community factors, prevention theories and techniques, professional issues, the criminal justice system and substance abuse, assessment and diagnosis, and more.
Sanctions in the CalWORKS Program
Author: Jacob Alex KlermanPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The California Department of Social Services asked RAND to study the state's policy for sanctioning welfare program participants who do not comply with statutory requirements of the welfare-to-work program. Researchers found that sanctions were weak in practice and that caseworkers were reluctant to sanction clients. Making sanction swifter, stronger, and safer are possible directions for reforming sanction policy and practice.