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Welfare Reform Fund - 2000 Grants
affordable, accessible transportation; affordable housing; and affordable, qualityhealth insurance. North Carolina welfare reform Collaborative Raleigh, NC,
http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/welfare_reform_fund/2000_grants.asp

Extractions: The Welfare Reform Fund was established in 1997 to support community-based efforts responding to the impact of welfare reform on the nation's most disadvantaged people. In its fourth year of grantmaking, this fund awarded nineteen grants totaling $500,000 for work focusing on direct service, organizing, coalition building, and advocacy efforts.
Welfare Reform Fund - 2001 Grants
for poor people in the areas of education, training, jobs, housing, and economic andadd their voices to the public debate about reform of the welfare system
http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/welfare_reform_fund/2001_grants.asp

Extractions: The Welfare Reform Fund was established in 1997 to support community-based efforts responding to the impact of welfare reform on the nation's most disadvantaged people. In its fifth year of grantmaking, this fund awarded 23 grants totaling $525,000 for work focusing on direct service, organizing, coalition building, and advocacy efforts. Oakland, CA Support for the Welfare Reform and Reauthorization Justice Project, to expand the membership base of low-income youth and families receiving TANF funds; building the organization's statewide infrastructure by developing alliances and an effective communications network to influence the Reauthorization debate at the state and federal levels; and developing a statewide campaign, as designed by its membership, to participate in and influence the federal TANF Reauthorization process.
Chicago Assembly Background Papers
The Politics of welfare reform Is Relief in Sight? The Politics of Fiscal reformin Illinois / Charles J Affordable housing in Metropolitan Chicago (1991).
http://www.harrisschool.uchicago.edu/research/curps/papers.html

Extractions: Education Reform for the 21st Century (1998) Education Reform Policy in Illinois: Problems, Conundrums, and Strategies / G. Alfred Hess, Jr. Standards-Based, Systemic Reform in the States: Progress and Challenges / Diane Massell Standards and Assessment in School Accountability Systems in Illinois / John Q. Easton and Sandra L. Storey Improving Student Learning: How Money Matters / Lawrence O. Picus Educational Trends and Issues in the Region, the State, and the Nation / Melissa Roderick So Much Reform, So Little Change: Building-Level Obstacles to Urban School Reform / Charles M. Payne Lessons of Chicago School Reform: An Interpretive Essay / Dan A. Lewis Families, Poverty, and Welfare Reform (1995) Public Policy and Poverty: Welfare as We Have Always Known It / Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Welfare Reform in Illinois: Recent Efforts in the Context of the National Debate / Dan A. Lewis, Christine C. George, and Deborah Puntenney Welfare Dynamics and Welfare Reform / Greg J. Duncan The Transition from Welfare to Work: Policies to Reduce Public Dependency / Gary Burtless The Economic Context of Welfare Reform: New Paradoxes in the Relationship Between Work and Poverty / Cedric Herring and David Fasenfest The Effects of Poverty on Children and Families / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
CHILDREN NOW: Children And Welfare Reform
Explore solutions to the problems children may face in welfare reform implementation(eg, inadequate child care, unstable housing) and examine obstacles to
http://www.childrennow.org/economics/WelfRef98/WelfareReformShortDoc.html

Extractions: January 1998 Children Now is a nonprofit, independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action. Children Now combines policy expertise and up-to-date communications strategies that reach parents, lawmakers, citizens, business, media and community leaders to generate positive change on behalf of children. With particular concern for those who are poor or at risk, Children Now is committed to improving conditions for all children. Founded in 1988, Children Now is a national organization with special depth in California. Welfare reform dominated the news across the nation in 1996 and 1997. In 1996, Congress ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and restructured assistance to America's poorest families with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In 1997, states began to take on the challenge of reshaping their own benefit programs for poor families. Of the 12.6 million Americans directly affected by these actions, two-thirds (8.7 million) are children.
Information - Federal Welfare Reform, Job Search, Temporary Financial Assistance
The Department of housing and Urban Development welfare reform Impactson the Public housing Program A Preliminary Forecast. Department
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/region10/wr/

Extractions: (Scroll down to Children and Families Administration Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program ( Tribal TANF ) and Native Employment Works ( NEW ) Program Frequently asked questions about TANF Welfare Reform activities in States in the Seattle Region Three states in Region 10 have web sites that provide information on the progress of Welfare Reform in those respective states. Vist the State Welfare Reform sites ALASKA OREGON WASHINGTON Evaluation of Welfare Reform started early in the Seattle Region. Visit the site of the Federal/State report on the evaluation of the Oregon JOBS Plus Program.
Harvard Gazette: Three-city Study
to the report, however, many families considered to be welfare reform success stories are still struggling to make ends meet because of high housing costs.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/07.18/06-welfare.html

Extractions: News News, events, features Science/Research Latest scientific findings Profiles The people behind the university Community Harvard and neighbor communities Sports Scores, highlights, upcoming games On Campus Newsmakers, notes, students, police log ... Arts Museums, concerts, theater Calendar Two-week listing of upcoming events HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES A new study, co-authored by Kennedy School of Government researcher James Quane, concludes that housing subsidies can significantly lessen the financial strain on low-income families and assist in the transition from welfare to work. The report is based on data collected from low-income African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white families with children in poor and near-poor neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio. Since Congress enacted welfare reform legislation in 1996, the number of welfare recipients has declined by more than 50 percent. According to the report, however, many families considered to be welfare reform "success stories" are still struggling to make ends meet because of high housing costs. Among the major findings in the study: Sixty-two percent of families without housing assistance who recently left the welfare rolls are severely cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 50 percent of their total household income on the cost of housing. In comparison, far fewer subsidized families, 24 percent, who recently left the welfare rolls, experience a severe housing cost burden.
UMASS RESEARCH
examined the connection between Massachusetts welfare reform and families' use ofemergency services shelters, food pantries, fuel, and housing assistance.
http://www.umb.edu/research/commonwealth/page03.html

Extractions: Home Next Page >> "In the public's eye, welfare reform has been an unqualified success," says Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy at UMass Boston's McCormack Institute. However, Friedman's research indicates that low-income families are now no better off as a result of recent changes to the welfare system. Principal investigator of the two-year U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study "After Welfare Reform" (completed in April 2001), Friedman examined the connection between Massachusetts welfare reform and families' use of emergency services: shelters, food pantries, fuel, and housing assistance. According to Friedman and her team of researchers, the poorest 20% of Massachusetts families with children experienced no net gain as a result of parents' entering the labor force. After welfare reform, family homelessness rose and the already wide income gap between the state's richest and poorest became even wider. "Most all agree that entering the workforce is one important avenue for most families to use on their journeys to economic security," says Friedman. Instead of operating from the "ideological position that presumes welfare recipients do not want to work," Friedman suggests reforming laws "to ensure that a movement into the labor force is a recipe for real success, not failure." The study's recommendations include allowing education and training to satisfy welfare work requirements. That way, those who leave welfare may go on to earn living wages.
Real Public Housing Reform By Howard Husock
are likely to bring housing policy much more in line with the emphasis on personalresponsibility and work that has made federal welfare reform so successful.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_2_12_03hh.html

Extractions: Select a topic: Architecture Arts Charter Schools Children Crime Culture and Society Economic Development Education Ethnicity Faith Based Programs Government Reform Healthcare Higher Education History Homelessness Housing and Development Legal Issues Media Philanthropy Politics Quality of Life Race Relations Regulation School Curriculum and Programs School Finance and Management Schools and Ethnicity Taxes Teachers Unions Tech and Environment Urban Issues Vouchers Welfare Select an issue: 2003 Winter v13 n1 2002 Autumn v12 n4 2002 Summer v12 n3 2002 Spring v12 n2 2002 Winter v12 n1 2001 Autumn v11 n4 2001 Summer v11 n3 2001 Spring v11 n2 2001 Winter v11 n1 2000 Autumn v10 n4 2000 Summer v10 n3 2000 Spring v10 n2 2000 Winter v10 n1 1999 Autumn v9 n4 1999 Summer v9 n3 1999 Spring v9 n2 1999 Winter v9 n1 1998 Autumn v8 n4 1998 Summer v8 n3 1998 Spring v8 n2 1998 Winter v8 n1 1997 Autumn v7 n4 1997 Summer v7 n3 1997 Spring v7 n2 1997 Winter v7 n1 1996 Autumn v6 n4 1996 Summer v6 n3 1996 Spring v6 n2 1996 Winter v6 n1 1995 Autumn v5 n4 1995 Summer v5 n3 1995 Spring v5 n2 1995 Winter v5 n1 Select an author: Abraham, Spencer
Welfare Reform - Kids And Working Parents - 1999 Outlook Grim
Associated Press article about how violations of federal, state and local laws leaves children abused Category Society Issues Poverty Homelessness strict welfare reform law. The wolf may be approaching the door, but it's not thereyet, said Philip Mangano, executive director of the Massachusetts housing
http://www.join-hands.com/welfare/homeless.html
1994 Welfare Reform
1992 welfare reform, 1994 welfare reform, 1996 Block Grant reform, Crosswalk 1992,1994, 1996, Drug Testing, , Direction 21 - Increasing housing Options (1992).
http://www.michigan.gov/fia/0,1607,7-124-5459_7342_7924---,00.html

Extractions: Direction 1 - Expanding EDGE - Education Designed for Gainful Employment (1992) Direction 2 - Expanding Entrepreneurial Training To Promote Self-Support (1992) Direction 2 - Breaking Down Barriers to Self-Employment (1994) Direction 3 - Eliminating the Work-History Requirement (1992) ... Direction 6 - Excluding Earnings And Savings Of Youth (1992)
NCC Welfare Reform Survey Finds More Working People Poor, Hungry
welfare reform has worked best, the survey found, where states provide significant servicessuch as Medicaid, Food Stamps, subsidies for housing and child care
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/01news14.html

Extractions: Faith-Based Service Providers, Advocates Discuss Strengths/Weaknesses as Reauthorization Nears Full Text of the NCC's Welfare Reform Survey These providers report that they are seeing more and more hungry people, according to the survey, released today. Overwhelmingly, the 150 respondents said, working families are the fastest growing category of people in need, and more and more of them are coming to faith-based organizations and other not-for-profits seeking food and help with rent, mortgage and utility payments, child care and job training and placement. "Florida voters may have left a lot of dimpled chads, leaving ballot counters puzzled at their intent, but survey respondents were clearly outraged at the increase in numbers of working poor," said Mary Cooper of the NCC’s Washington Office, who tallied the results. "They jabbed at the survey form and put multiple checkmarks as they described working people struggling to stay housed but unable to pay their utilities and turning to the church for help. This winter it’s going to be terrible for people trying to pay for heat." "Just getting a job is not sufficient to get out of poverty," Ms. Cooper said. "We have to help policy makers understand that."
Commonwealth Department Of Family And Community Services | Publications
Relationships Federal Electorate Profiles Homelessness housing Indigenous Means Test ResearchSeniors Information Tax reform welfare reform Youth Bureau
http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/respubs/nav.htm

Extractions: A Study of Australian Relationship Education Service Activities A Study in Hope: The multi-site evaluation and development of a better practice model for family violence services (1999) Child Inclusive Practice in Family and Child Counselling and Family and Child Mediation Contact Services in Australia Research and Evaluation Project ... Return to Contents Working Towards a National Homelessness Strategy Estimating Homelessness Home Safe Home: The link between domestic and family violence and women's homelessness SAAP Report - Appropriate Responses for Homeless People Whose Needs Require a High Level and Complexity of Service Provision ... Return to Contents
How Are Immigrants Faring After Welfare Reform? Preliminary Evidence From Los An
measures, including poverty, food insecurity, moderate hunger, housing problems,and lack in 1999 to 2000, roughly three years after welfare reform was enacted
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/immigrants-faring02/
Links
welfare reform State Links; White House welfare reform. housing Associationof Community Organizations for reform Now (ACORN); Fair housing Council;
http://www.homesforthehomeless.com/linksframe.html
Welfare Reform - Intro
resources necessary for life (ie., food, medical assistance, housing). of the document, Cooperative Extensino System Response to welfare reform Programs that
http://www.reeusda.gov/4h/welfare/welfare.htm

Extractions: Fish, Fishing, and Welfare Reform Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Give a person a fish, and that person can eat for a day; teach a person to fish, and that person can eat for a lifetime. The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), U.S. Department of Agriculture's contribution to welfare reform issues can be summed up in two words fish and fishing. Social service agencies give fish to people by providing benefits such as SSI, food stamps, and other subsidies to temporarily relieve hardships. But CSREES, in cooperation with the nationwide land-grant university system, helps move families and individuals from dependency to self-sufficiency by using research, education, and extension outreach to teach them how to fish to develop skills needed to be productive citizens for a lifetime. how to fish...to change their attitudes, knowledge, and skills, so that responsibility and self-sufficiency become ways of life. University faculty have the skills to design methods to monitor the effects felt by children, youth, families, and communities when welfare legislation is implemented at state and county levels. Local Extension educators have direct access to welfare families, especially in rural areas. Land- grant undergraduate and graduate students can be available to canvass communities and collect and analyse data from welfare families.
Bookmarks For Mark Creekmore
housing Institute The Enterprise Foundation Home Page National housing Institute NetworkNCSLnet welfare reform NGA Center for Best Practices welfare reform
http://www.si.umich.edu/Classes/697/creekmore.html
Economic And Community Supports Welfare Reform Longitudinal
participants' demographic characteristics, household composition, welfare use, employmentand income, medical coverage, child care, housing, and transportation
http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/ecs/welfare/basesumm.htm
Colorado Welfare Reform
Colorado Fiscal Project Archives Index, Colorado welfare reform Support Project,Domestic Health/MentalHealth archives index, housing/Homelessness archives index,I
http://www.cudenver.edu/cwr/page1.html

Extractions: Colorado Welfare Reform is an independent, non-partisan information clearing house for welfare reform in Colorado. The Center for Human Investment Policy (CHIP manages this site. [ more about Colorado Welfare Reform Read Colorado's Proposed 2003 TANF State Plan CWR Wants to Know What You Think! Local Calendar
Research On The Interaction Of Welfare Reform And Housing Programs Grant Competi
contract research organizations, and communitybased organizations to apply for fundingto research the interaction of welfare reform with housing programs and
http://anduin.eldar.org/~ben/scout/html/1050.html

Extractions: "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) invites academic researchers, contract research organizations, and community-based organizations to apply for funding to research the interaction of welfare reform with housing programs and HUD initiatives that support economic self-sufficiency. Research should examine potential policy responses to this interaction. Projects should also focus on the effects of statutory, regulatory, and locally-initiated actions affecting families with children." This site provides background information, research goals, suggested projects, selection criteria, and application information. [MD]
Welfare Reform
The truth is we do not yet know. More Symposium. Should HousingHave a Role in welfare reform? A substantial number of the
http://www.urban.org/welfare/overview.htm

Extractions: The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders. INTRODUCTION No one likes the current welfare system. Governors complain that federal law is overly prescriptive and are willing to take less federal money in return for more flexibility. The public believes that welfare is anti-work and anti-family although polls show that the public wants welfare reformed in ways that do not penalize children. Welfare recipients find dealing with the system degrading and demoralizing; most would prefer to work . Experts note that welfare has done little to stem the growth of poverty among children. In all but two states, welfare benefits (including food stamps) are insufficient to move a family above the poverty line In short, the current indictment against the welfare system has four particulars:

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