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Changing Welfare Services - Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs (Paperback, New)
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Changing Welfare Services - Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs (Paperback, New)
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Contains field-tested techniques to enhance the effectiveness of
your local social services! Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies
of Local Welfare Reform Programs describes promising programs and
practices that have emerged in the United States since the
enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996. Using case studies, this reference
provides important lessons that will help social service directors
and staff to develop strategies that will improve local
welfare-to-work services. This casebook focuses on the agencies
rather than the welfare population, emphasizing the guiding values
of these agencies and the lessons they learned. Changing Welfare
Services explores new approaches to service delivery, with emphasis
on removing barriers to work force participation and promoting
self-sufficiency through support services. The case studies involve
programs focused on working with the community by developing
partnerships with local organizations to provide better services.
This text emphasizes the organizational changessuch as the
development of new training programs, merging employment and social
service agencies, and restructuring agency programs to foster
collaboration between child welfare services and welfare-to-work
programsthat were successful strategies used to implement welfare
reform. In Changing Welfare Services, you will learn about: the
Connections Shuttle and the Guaranteed Ride Home
Programtransportation services for welfare-to-work participants the
Exempt Provider Training Program trains Temporary Assistance to
Needy Families (TANF) participants and others to launch and improve
their own high-quality child care businesses co-location of support
servicessituating mental health and substance abuse services near
the social services agency so TANF participants can make a single
visit for all necessary services the Family Loan Programhelps
low-income families deal with large or unexpected one-time expenses
the JobKeeper Hotlineprovides round-the-clock counseling, crisis
intervention, and referral services to help participants stay
employed and much more! Changing Welfare Services shows how these
agencies discovered new ways to serve the needs of low-income
residents and offers you a variety of inventive techniques for
improving your own agency's support for welfare recipients.
Enhanced with tables, figures, and appendixes, this
practitioner-oriented casebook is a much-needed complement to the
many quantitative studies of the welfare population. This book is a
valuable resource for state and local human service administrators
and staff, policymakers, and university faculty and students of
public policy.
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