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Author: Dr. Joaquin Wallace
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2021-07-28
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1664187219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Practitioner’s Perspective on How to Develop and Implement a Successful Welfare to Work Program
Author: Judith M. Gueron
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1991-08-29
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 161044258X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Welfare to Work appears at a critical moment, when all fifty states are wrestling with tough budgetary and program choices as they implement the new federal welfare reforms. This book is a definitive analysis of the landmark social research that has directly informed those choices: the rigorous evaluation of programs designed to help welfare recipients become employed and self-sufficient. It discusses forty-five past and current studies, focusing on the series of seminal evaluations conducted by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation over the last fifteen years. Which of these welfare-to-work programs have worked? For whom and at what cost? In answering these key questions, the authors clearly delineate the trade-offs facing policymakers as they strive to achieve the multiple goals of alleviating poverty, helping the most disadvantaged, curtailing dependence, and effecting welfare savings. The authors present compelling evidence that the generally low-cost, primarily job search-oriented programs of the late 1980s achieved sustained earnings gains and welfare savings. However, getting people out of poverty and helping those who are most disadvantaged may require some intensive, higher-cost services such as education and training. The authors explore a range of studies now in progress that will address these and other urgent issues. They also point to encouraging results from programs that were operating in San Diego and Baltimore, which suggest the potential value of a mixed strategy: combining job search and other low-cost activities for a broad portion of the caseload with more specialized services for smaller groups. Offering both an authoritative synthesis of work already done and recommendations for future innovation, From Welfare to Work will be the standard resource and required reading for practitioners and students in the social policy, social welfare, and academic communities.
Author: Loraine Pratt
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this systematic literature review is to examine how effective Welfare-to- Work (WTW) programs are in helping participants overcome lack of childcare, transportation, and job skill barriers. The Welfare Reform Act introduced in 1996 brought about change in welfare as Americans knew it. The shift included changing the welfare program from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) to Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). The act allowed state governments to administer welfare-to-work programs according to the needs in their individual states. The act implemented new requirements and time limitations on welfare benefits for able-bodied participants in the assistance household, making it a work first program. TANF was designed by the government to assist welfare participants in becoming self-sufficient and to provide funding to the states for the welfare-to-work programs.
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Hoefer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0789033674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Jeff GROGGER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0674037960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evelyn Ganzglass
Publisher: National Governors Assn
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781558771949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch on the results of welfare-to-work programs is both encouraging and sobering. On the one hand, it provides evidence that states can effectively implement various work-oriented programs to encourage large percentages of the welfare caseload to prepare for and enter the labor market. These programs range from rather low-intensity programs aimed at moving recipients into jobs as quickly as possible, to more complex and intensive programs that may include assessment, counseling, and case management as well as education, training, and support services. A number of highly successful programs place a heavy emphasis on employment while providing an integrated set of education, training, and support services. On the other hand, research suggests it is difficult to achieve the multiple objectives established for welfare-to-work programs. None have been able to lift participants out of poverty. A strategy that is successful in increasing the employment and earnings of welfare recipients may not be successful in reducing welfare dependency or achieving cost savings to the government. Strategies aimed at promoting responsible behavior among teenage recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children have met with limited success. Continued research on states' programmatic initiatives and structural reforms will provide additional guidance to inform welfare policy and program implementation. (Appendixes include highlights of major research studies on welfare-to-work programs, and seven endnotes. Contains 21 references. (YLB)
Author: Jenny L Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1317717767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloping an Empirically Based Practice Initiative documents practice techniques that were used during a three-year training/demonstration project for child welfare supervisors working in the frontlines of child protection services in the Southeastern United States. This unique book is a guide to combining research methodology with staff training to enhance the quality of evidence-based practice in the field. The book examines techniques that were used in training modules in four states, highlighting practice models and intervention outcomes from an evidence-based perspective. Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative includes details about the project from the federal perspective (The Children’s Bureau) and the operational implications at the Southern Regional Quality Improvement Center (SRQIC) level. The book examines the issues of providing technical research assistance to child welfare agencies and the complexities of cross-site evaluation with different political jurisdictions. Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative examines: The Children’s Bureau discretionary grant program the relationship between child welfare workers’ career plans and their abilities to accomplish core work tasks secondary traumatic stress (STS) in child protective services workers methods for monitoring and evaluating child welfare supervisors clinical decision-making as a tool for building effective supervision skills the use of outcome data for decision-making the development and implementation of the Tennessee project the use of “360-degree” evaluations to improve clinical skill development the Intervention Design and Development model Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative is an invaluable aid for social work practitioners, child welfare workers, case managers, and supervisors, and for social work academics and students.
Author: Judith M. Gueron
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis country has long debated the question of how to design the welfare system, particularly the federally supported Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program which provides cash assistance to families headed primarily by female single parents. A pressing issue is whether welfare programs should continue to be broad entitlements or whether they should become "reciprocal obligations" whereby work or participation in an activity leading to work is required. Of particular concern in AFDC policy are questions about whether this aid reduces incentives for people to work and, thus, promotes dependency. Findings from a three-year evaluation of workfare programs in Arkansas, San Diego (California), Virginia, West Virginia, and Baltimore (Maryland) include the following: (1) it is feasible, under certain conditions and on the scale at which the demonstration programs were implemented, to tie the receipt of welfare to participation obligations; (2) a number of different ways of structuring and targeting programs will yield effective results; (3) in cases in which states chose to operate mandatory workfare, the interim results do not support the strongest claims of critics or advocates; and (4) programs led to relatively modest increases in employment, which in some cases translated into even smaller welfare savings, but, the changes were large enough to justify program costs. A table illustrating the key characteristics of state work/welfare initiatives and a table summarizing the impact of AFDC work/welfare programs are included. A list of 49 references is appended. (FMW)
