61. 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

Community Economic Development and Participation Criminal Justice Disadvantaged Elderly ... Evaluations Welfare Reform Fund - 2000 Grants 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. Californians for Justice Education Fund Los Angeles, CA General support for a statewide network of grassroots organizations focusing on the impact of welfare reform in California. CAUSA Salem, OR General support to help shape and respond to welfare reform measures in Oregon, particularly as they affect the immigrant community. Center for Third World Organizing Oakland, CA Support for GROWL, Grass Roots Organizing for Welfare Leadership, to provide training to grassroots groups to strengthen organizational capacity; convene grassroots and support organizations to build strong networks; and conduct research to educate policy makers. Community Voices Heard New York, NY

62. 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

Community Economic Development and Participation Criminal Justice Disadvantaged Elderly ... Evaluations Welfare Reform Fund - 2001 Grants 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. Californians for Justice Education Fund 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. CAUSA Salem, OR

63. 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

Chicago Assembly Background Papers 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

64. 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

Our Programs CALIFORNIA FOCUS TALKING WITH KIDS WORKING FAMILIES HEALTH News Archives PRESS RELEASES RELATED ARTICLES E-NEWSLETTERS VEDIO ARCHIVE Content Analysis on Welfare Reform Reporting A Report by Children Now 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.

65. 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/

Questions? Privacy Site Index Contact Us ... Please tell us... View Welfare Reform activities in... States in Seattle Region Native American Organizations in Seattle Region Seattle Regional Office Other Federal Offices ... Electronic Resource Library Final Welfare Reform regulations for the Administration for Children and Families Final Federal Welfare Reform Regulations , were published April 12, 1999 (Scroll down to Children and Families Administration Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program ( Tribal TANF ) and Native Employment Works ( NEW ) Program Final Rule - February 18, 2000 Executive Summary Questions and Answers 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.

66. 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

Search the Gazette HOME Science Prev issues Contact us ... Harvard News Office Current Issue: July 18, 2002 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 Three-city study: Housing subsidies aid welfare-to-work 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.

67. 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

Home Next Page >> WELFARE REFORM: A Reality Check "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.

68. 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

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69. 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

Welfare cuts adding more kids to rolls of homeless Boston Massachusetts USA By Leslie Miller Associated Press writer BOSTON The kids will sing carols, eat goodies and ride ponies. The cheer will be short-lived, however, because after the party, more than half of the children will go back to homeless shelters. Every year, children are homeless, but advocates for the poor say the situation looks especially grim now, with the effects of the national overhaul of welfare just beginning to be felt. The U.S. Conference of Mayors reported Wednesday that 15 percent more homeless families requested shelter this year than last. The mayors cited cuts in public assistance and the lack of affordable housing as two reasons for the increase. In Massachusetts, many welfare recipients stand to lose their cash benefits on Monday as they come up against the two-year time limit imposed by the state's strict welfare reform law. "The wolf may be approaching the door, but it's not there yet," said Philip Mangano, executive director of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance. "It'll be bad enough soon enough."

70. 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

Skip Navigation Michigan.gov Home FIA Home Site Map ... Project Zero Governor's Letter Letter from Governor John Engler Principle I - Encouraging Employment 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) Principle II - Targeting Support Direction 7 - Fostering Family Preservation (1992) Direction 7 - Fostering Family Preservation (1994) Direction 8 - Expanding Child Support Initiatives (1992) Direction 8 - Expanding Child Support Initiatives (1994) ... Direction 14 - Improving the Child Adoption Process (1994) Principle III - Increasing Responsibility Direction 15 - Creating the Social Contract (1992) Direction 15 - Creating the Social Contract (1994) Direction 16 - Implementing Higher AIMS - Attendance In Michigan Schools (1992) Direction 17 - Focusing on Family Planning (1992) ... Direction 18 - Enhancing Fraud Control (1992) Principle IV - Involving Communities Direction 19 - Expanding Communities First (1992) Direction 20 - Developing Youth Education Alternatives (1992) Direction 21 - Increasing Housing Options (1992) Direction 21 - Increasing Housing Options (1994) Quick Links Adoption Day Care Child Support Foster Care ... Michigan.gov Home

71. 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

"MORE WORKING PEOPLE HUNGRY" SINCE WELFARE REFORM, NCC SURVEY FINDS 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."

72. 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

@import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); @import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); Home Newsroom Contact FaCS Search Publications Contents General Child Care Deeming Disability ... Youth Bureau General Annual Report Budget and Additional Estimates Reports Business Partnership Agreement 2001-2004 Business Partnership Agreement 2000-2001 ... Return to Contents Child Care 1996 and 1997 Census of Child Care Services 1999 Census of Child Care Services Australian Background Report for the OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care Commonwealth Child Care News ... Return to Contents Deeming Information Deeming Accounts Guide to Deeming List Of Financial Institutions Offering Deeming Accounts Return to Contents ... Return to Contents Family Relationships 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 Homelessness 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 Housing SAAP Monograph Series Housing Assistance Act Annual Report 1999-2000 Public Housing Estate Renewal in Australia Review of Additional Housing Needs for Low Income Renters ... Return to Contents Indigenous

73. 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/

How Are Immigrants Faring After Welfare Reform? Preliminary Evidence from Los Angeles and New York City Submitted by: Randy Capps, Leighton Ku and Michael Fix Chris Furgiuele, Jeff Passel, Rajeev Ramchand, Scott McNiven, Dan Perez-Lopez [The Urban Institute] Eve Fielder, Michael Greenwell and Tonya Hays [Survey Research Center, University of California at Los Angeles] Submitted to: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services March 4, 2002 This report is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/immigrants-faring02/ To obtain a printed copy Contents Acknowledgements Executive Summary Legal Status and Composition of Immigrant Families Income, English Proficiency and Employment ... References List of Tables 1.1 Detailed Immigration Status of Focal Family Members, 1999-2000 1.2 Benefits Program Participation among Low-income Immigrant Families 1.3 Immigrant Understanding of Program Eligibility Rules and Consequences (Individual Items in LANYCIS Survey) 1.4 Immigrant Understanding of Program Eligibility Rules and Consequences (Composite Score on Items in LANYCIS Survey) ... 2.20 Logistic Regression on Odds of Food Stamp Receipt in the Year Prior to the Survey List of Figures 1.1 Percent of Low-income Immigrant and Native Citizen Families with at Least One Member Using Public Benefit Programs

74. 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

Links Children and Families AfterShare and AfterShare Kids ARCH National Resource Center for Respite Care Services The Better Homes Fund Campaign for Our Children ... Child Welfare Training Resources Online Network Education ERIC Clearinghouse for Urban / Minority Education International Literacy Institute International Reading Association National Institute for Literacy ... New York State Technical Assistance and Education Center for Homeless Students Government Administration for Children and Families Federal Sites Federal Statistics Health Resources and Services Administration ... White House Welfare Reform Health American Social Health Association Bureau of Primary Health Care Families USA Family Health Council ... Planned Parenthood Homelessness Home Aid America National Center for Homelessness and Mental Health Illness National Coalition for the Homeless National Coalition for Homeless Veterans ... National Alliance to End Homelessness Housing Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Fair Housing Council Housing Assistance Council National Center for Housing Management ... Supportive Housing Network of New York Hunger RESULTS The Institute for Food and Development Policy Food Research Action Center Share Our Strength ... Hits Against Hunger Literacy

75. 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

Fish, Fishing, and Welfare Reform Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service U.S. Department of Agriculture 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. Anonymous 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. Research as a Tool 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.

76. 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

Bookmarks for Mark Creekmore Policy Areas Civil rights Education Housing Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods National Housing Institute The Enterprise Foundation Home Page National Housing Institute Labor Cornell Youth and Work Program Publications Health and nutrition UM Substance Abuse Resource Center The Lindesmith Center, Drug Policy Research Institute Welfare The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) ETCS Workforce Development Board Members Welfare Info. Network NCSLnet: Welfare Reform ... UM SSW - Michigan Poverty Program: Welcome! Criminal Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance Juvenile Justice - Child Protection CASA Program Web Page: Michigan Children's Defense Fund The Future of Children Child Abuse and Neglect Clearinghouse Home Page ... Family Success! Prevention Is Effective! Juvenile Courts/Court Programs American Judicature Society Home Page CASAnet Library: Juvenile and Family Court Models http://justice.courts.state.fl.us/courts/family/ National CASA Association ... Michigan's Children Home Page Domestic Violence Domestic Peace Links MCFOC-Michigan's Friend of the Court Handbook Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse The Family Violence Prevention Fund ... Domestic Violence, Family Violence, Child Abuse Page

77. 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

78. 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

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 AFDC Coalition meeting 4/14-21 C hild Care / Welfare Meeting with Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell Town Hall Meeting on Colorado Budget National Calendar CLASP Audio Conference Reauthorization of Welfare and Related Programs, Colorado Parent Information Resource Center (CPIRC) Advocacy, Child welfare, Education, Family Health, Injury Prevention, Parenting, Parent Involvement, Reading, Tough Issues Issue Index 2003 Colorado Senate Index 2003 Colorado House Index Benefits , B , C hild Welfare Colorado News, Domestic Violence Immigrants ... Legal Week's Postings Local Implementation NonProfits, Performance Monitoring/Evaluation SafetyNet ... Grant $$ (Child Care/Early Education), Health,

79. 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

"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] http://www.huduser.org/publications/smallgrants/index.html ====== The Social Sciences Report ====== Brought to You by the Internet Scout Project The Social Sciences Report is published every other week by the Internet Scout Project, located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences. distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report for the Social Sciences copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US

80. 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

Welfare Reform An Analysis of the Issues Author(s): Isabel V. Sawhill (editor) Other Availability: Order Online Printer-Friendly Version Published: May 01, 1995 Citation URL: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=306620 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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