Welfare To Work Employers Several California state agencies are partnering to maximize resourcesand coordinate welfare reform services. Among the state agencies http://www.wtwemployers.cahwnet.gov/wtwemawr.htm
Extractions: When President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in August 1996, he set into motion a dramatic shift from welfare benefits that support an entitlement program, to welfare benefits providing temporary assistance. With an emphasis on economic self-sufficiency and a "work-first" philosophy, the program ceases welfare as an open-ended entitlement through a five-year, lifetime limit. The California Legislature responded to the federal law, by creating the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in August 1997. CalWORKs establishes welfare reform in California by imposing work participation requirements and time limits upon the receipt of aid. It also provides for welfare-to-work and supportive services for CalWORKs recipients. Several California state agencies are partnering to maximize resources and coordinate welfare reform services. Among the state agencies involved in the partnership are the Employment Development Department, the Department of Social Services, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, the Department of Mental Health, and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs among others. Likewise, local area agencies, such as County Welfare Departments and Private Industry Councils, are partnering with businesses to provide services that meet local needs.
NET Gain No. 13 designed to help federal agencies implement the http//www.welfaretowork.fed.gov/NPRAction/HomePage YorkState Education Department's welfare reform Work Group http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/NETGain13.html
Extractions: NETGain Archive NCRVE Home Site Search Product Search Welfare reform has been a hot topic on Capitol Hill recently. A key issue is what kind of vocational training and how much of that training counts as "work" to comply with the federal guidelines for welfare reform. This installment of "NET Gain" offers ideas for finding information on welfare reform on the Internet. The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration has a welfare-to-work site at http://wtw.doleta.gov/ohrw2w/index.htm . In addition to information about the department's resources for implementing programs, there is an excellent page of more than a dozen links to other Web resources at http://www.ttrc.doleta.gov/ETA/Welfare/w2w_link.htm In addition: There is an ETA Welfare-to-Work page with broader coverage (not just federal hiring practices) at http://wtw.doleta.gov/ The National Performance Review has a page designed to help federal agencies implement the welfare-to-work directives at http://www.welfaretowork.fed.gov/NPRAction/HomePage.nsf
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education Columbus OH. Welfare to Work: Considerations for Adult and Vocational Education Programs. ERIC Digest No. 216. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC RELATED ISSUES A number of issues are related to the current context of welfare-to-work programming. Two discussed here are legislation/policy and the role of education in the work-first environment. LEGISLATION AND POLICY The flexibility offered states by these pieces of federal legislation has led to great variation in both state legislation and policies related to TANF recipients (Grubb et al. 1999; Hayes 1999). Some statesfor example, Illinoisare using their own funds to support welfare recipients and therefore setting back the clock on the time limits imposed by PRWORA (Hayes 1999). Others, such as Wisconsin, have developed creative approaches that combine work first with a human capital strategy (Grubb et al. 1999). Unfortunately, innovative and creative approaches have not been the norm so that "in the push to move people into work, many states have made education within welfare reform a secondary consideration" (Hayes 1999, p. 7).
History Of MFIP - Fact Sheet (MN DHS). 1987 gov. Policy (OJP) to explore how Minnesota might reform welfare if there forinput, including counties, job training agencies, education organizations http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/newsroom/Facts/MFIPhistory.htm
Welfare Reform Research Database - N-R Entries States Experience with Private agencies Collection of www.gao.gov HEHS97-11,Examines the Privatization, Making welfare reform Work Better How Diverse http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/dwd/wrr/wrr-nr.htm
Extractions: This page was last updated Welfare Reform Research (WRR) Database Previous WRR Page Return to WRR Subject Index Next WRR Page Subject Title Comments Organization Author Participants' Viewpoints How Hawaii Families on Public Assistance are Responding to Welfare Reform: A Listening/Talk Story Project. Aug. 1999. afsc@pixi.com Survey of 49 heads of households receiving TANF and Hawaii's Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families (TAONF). Information is assessed in the context of Hawaii's economic market, cultural barriers, and recipients' economic circumstances. America Friends Service Committee Hawaii Area Program Broken Promise: Welfare Reform Two Years Later, The. Jan. 2000
United States Government Information agencies of the Federal Government; Agriculture; Aid, International, Foreign Water;Weather, Climate, and Climate Change; Web Archives; welfare and welfare reform; http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/us/federal.htm
Extractions: GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS United States Government Information U.S. Resources State Resources Foreign Resources International Resources ... What's New Featured resources: Bibliographic Databases Census Congressional FirstGov ... Year 2000 This page last modified on 7 April 2003. Send comments to govpubs@colorado.edu Maintained by Susan Xue Top of page.
Child Care Development Specialist the successful implementation of the recent welfare reform Act, BAT will work withthe US Department of Health and Human Services, State agencies, as well as http://www.doleta.gov/atels_bat/welfarer.asp
Extractions: Child Care Development Specialist To support the successful implementation of the recent Welfare Reform Act, BAT will work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, State agencies, as well as other U.S. DOL Employment and Training Programs, to link registered apprenticeship with local welfare efforts by expanding opportunities in the Child Care Industry for the occupation Child Care Development Specialist. BAT's initial work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in exploring registered apprenticeship for Child Care Development Specialists will be expanded into a national promotional effort. This initiative will serve as a vehicle for both providing career training opportunities for welfare recipients and for ensuring adequate child care providers for welfare recipients obtaining other employment.
PMP MINIWEB: Welfare Reform II Lead agencies. http//www.hhs.gov/search/searches.html. HHS) is the federal agencythat oversees the comprehensive bipartisan welfare reform plan created by http://www.ideapolicy.org/Welfare Reform/Welfare Reform.htm
Extractions: PMP Technical Assistance Mini Web Welfare Reform Additional sections will be added as they are completed. Go to the Categorical Index H.R.3734 Text PDF TITLE IBlock Grants For Temporary Assistance For Needy Families TITLE IISupplemental Security Income TITLE IIIChild Support TITLE IVRestricting Welfare And Public Benefits For Aliens TITLE VChild Protection TITLE VIChild Care TITLE VIIChild Nutrition Programs TITLE VIIIFood Stamps And Commodity Distribution B Compilation Of The Social Security Laws Including The Social Security Act, As Amended, And Related Enactments http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/comp-ssa.htm Table Of Contents http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/comp-toc.htm Index To Social Security Act http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/comp-idx.htm SSA Online search engine http://www.ssa.gov/search/index.htm http://199.173.225.108//work/ResourcesToolkit/legisreg2.html This section of the OESP web site contains information on the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-170). Sec. 101. Establishment of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program
Vermont.gov - Health & Public Safety Abuse Project · Social Services Policy Manual · Vermont Department of Social andRehabilitation Services · welfare reform. Vermont.gov Home, agencies Depts. http://vermont.gov/health-safety/social_programs.html
Welfare Law Center News: HHS OCR Guidance the New York OCR determined that the New York agencies had violated is availableon the web Civil Rights and welfare reform is at www.hhs.gov/progorg/ocr http://www.welfarelaw.org/hhs_ocr_welfare.htm
Extractions: HHS Office of Civil Rights From October 1999 Welfare News: HHS Office of Civil Rights Addresses Discrimination Issues in Welfare Programs and Reaches Out To Advocates Resources on Welfare Reform and Civil Rights Protections HHS OCR Guidance. A variety of federal statutes prohibit discrimination against individuals based on race, color, national origin, disability, age, or gender (with respect to education programs and activities) in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance. Other federal statutes also prohibit employment discrimination based on race, color, gender, national origin, religion, disability, or age (for those over 40). These employment protections apply to TANF participants as they do to other workers. Because HHS administers the federal TANF block grant, its Office of Civil Rights addresses issues of compliance by states and other entities running federally financed TANF programs with their obligations under federal civil rights laws. In August, OCR issued two documents on civil rights protections and welfare reform. Development of this guidance was coordinated with other federal agencies that have a role in enforcing civil rights protections in TANF and related programs - the U.S. Departments of Labor, Justice, Education, and Agriculture and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Dear Colleague Letters (National Electronic Child Support Resource System) http//www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse an Employment Focused Approach to welfare reform, developed by guide is directed to welfare agencies providing employment http://ocse.acf.dhhs.gov/necsrspub/federal/dcl/topic.cfm?TOPIC=Public Informatio
A New Paradigm For Welfare Reform: The Need For Civil Rights welfare agencies should hold regular town/neighborhood meetings US General AccountingOffice, welfare reform Outcomes for 2000, http//www.ncd.gov , p. 49 http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/prwora/welfare.htm
Extractions: A New Paradigm for Welfare Reform: The Need for Civil Rights Enforcement A Statement by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights August 2002 Passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996 was intended to drastically transform public assistance in the United States. With it, a new emphasis was established to move public assistance recipients from welfare to work. While a laudable goal, rather than engaging recipients in productive activities that lead to self-sufficiency, the reform instituted tough requirements and restrictions on eligibility (including time limits, work requirements, and participation rates). The law gave states discretion to structure programs, as long as they met basic requirements, and impelled them to enforce strict sanctions. The Commission found that the proposals before Congress not only ignore some of the negative outcomes of the 1996 reform, but potentially compound the disparate impact of the 1996 law. Without civil rights protections in the legislation, welfare reform cannot lift all Americans out of poverty. Based on its own review and numerous studies, the Commission encourages Congress to promote policies that will alleviate the disparities and advance the objectives of reform. The Commissions recommendations are offered in three categories: (1) those that will facilitate the enforcement of civil rights laws, (2) those that will safeguard against discriminatory treatment, and (3) those that will prevent future disparate impact.
Welfare Related Websites welfare Working Partnership (a roundtable of private orgs., gov't agencies leaders in MO). West Virginia University Extension Service welfare reform. http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/win/sites.asp
Extractions: Welfare Related Websites Organizational Links Below is a list of web sites that contain information concerning welfare programs and welfare reform. These sites are categorized according to the information they contain. Statistical Data Century Foundation Census Bureau Welfare Reform Academy Return to top Legislative Information and Updates American Legislative Exchange Council American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) ... Children, Youth and Family Consortium
NEWS RELEASE Welfare Reform Task Force Appointed, October 1, welfare reform is not something government can do alone, gov. Patton said. Itwill take all of us working together nonprofit agencies and private http://gov.state.ky.us/pressreleases/1996/welfare.htm
Extractions: FRANKFORT, Ky. (Oct. 1, 1996) Individual self-sufficiency contracts, regionalized economic development strategies and "diversion" for people needing only short-term assistance are among the highlights of Kentucky's new welfare-reform plan, unveiled today at the state capitol. Grounded in values that call for adults to take responsibility for their own children and their own livelihood, Kentucky's innovative plan nevertheless is designed to provide families with the tools they need to succeed. Under the plan, state government will collaborate with local governments, non-profit agencies and private companies to create a partnership that will educate, train, employ and empower Kentuckians. "With the release of this plan today, Kentucky takes a bold step toward providing its poor families with the tools they need to break the cycle of dependence and to venture untethered into a new era of self-determination, " Gov. Paul Patton said during a news conference announcing the plan. "My staff and I put a lot of hard work and vision into this plan, and I think it shows," said Families and Children Secretary Viola Miller, who spearheaded the plan's development. "This is a plan that can and will help unemployed Kentuckians find work.
California Workforce Association Related Links to assist the Federal grant making agencies, grantees, and www.whitehouse.gov Departmentof Health and Human for Children and Families welfare reform Page. http://www.calworkforce.org/links.html
Indicators For Tracking Welfare Reform (3/98) with them directly in community organizations and human services agencies. be accessedat http//www.cbo.gov can be used to assess the impact of welfare reform. http://www.cbp.org/1998/9803indctr.html
Extractions: The scope of state and local monitoring efforts will depend on the availability of data. Most of the indicators described below should be available at the state level. In addition, a considerable amount of information may be available at the county level. A basic monitoring project can be divided into three categories: Social indicators: Measurements of community well being, demand for services, and program utilization. Fiscal indicators: Measurements of public spending and the adequacy of public resources to meet demands for services. Survey and interview data: Anecdotal information obtaining service providers, advocates, and low-income consumers responses to simple surveys. This type of information provides a vital human side that complements data obtained from fiscal and social indicators.
Controversial Issues reform http//www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare welfare reform http//www.nacaa.org/welrecs.htmFromthe National Association of Community Action agencies, this site http://www.twinlakes.k12.in.us/info/library/connection/controW.htm
The NRDP - Internet Resources Network (WIN); Rural welfare reform Strategies Project; Training Administration; Workers.gov;Americas Labor Interstate Conference of Employment Security agencies; http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/nrdp/resources.html
Extractions: By clicking on any of the links below, you are leaving the NRDP website. The NRDP is not responsible for any material on sites that it does not maintain. Rural Information Center (RIC) and RIC Health Service (RICHS) with information on grant opportunities, foundations, publications, conferences, and more. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance , a searchable database of federal programs.
Research Inventory regional planning councils, state agencies, federal agencies, colleges and Web siteson welfare reform. Washington, DC http//www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/; http://www.flawelfarereform.org/inventory/
Extractions: Introduction The Florida Inter-University Welfare Reform Collaborative completed this research inventory with funding from the State WAGES Board for three major purposes: to encourage coordination of welfare reform research at the state and local level, to identify important research gaps, and to help the State WAGES Board, research institutions and other organizations set agendas for future research that make the best use of research dollars. This information for this inventory was compiled from September 13 to October 15, 1999 from many sources, including the State WAGES Board, local WAGES coalitions, regional planning councils, state agencies, federal agencies, colleges and universities in Florida and national research institutes and organizations. It is comprehensive but by no means complete. It serves as a foundation on which to build as further studies are designed and identified. Report Report Cover (Microsoft Word Document) (Help!)
