Human Services Policy (HSP): Welfare & Work agencies welfare reform Contacts. Implementation Guidance Website http//www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/ wrpack.htm http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/hspwelfare.htm
Extractions: ASPE conducted a Panel Study with the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), to evaluate the design of current, proposed, and future studies of the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Prepared by Michele Ver Ploeg, Robert A. Moffitt, and Constance F. Citro, editors, the Panel provided the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with recommendations for studying the outcomes of recent changes in the welfare system. Status Report on Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform , June 2002.
ACF - Welfare Reform on Cooperation Agreements for Economic SelfSufficiency between PHAs and TANF agencies; AGuide Expanding Health Coverage in the Post welfare-reform World - (pdf http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/welfare/
OPM Welfare To Work Home Page We will be happy to assist agencies in developing your an email inquiry to w2w@opm.gov ToWhite House welfare reform Information Page; To National Partnership http://www.opm.gov/wtw/
Extractions: Background Office of Personnel Management Guidance New Regulations on Promotions Under TAPER Appointments Reporting Requirements Sample Vacancy Announcement Welfare to Work Hiring Statistics In his March 8, 1997 memorandum , President Clinton reiterated his commitment to providing employment opportunities to welfare recipients and directed the heads of the federal government's executive departments and agencies to lead by example and move people off the welfare rolls into federal jobs using available hiring authorities. The President asked Vice President Gore to oversee this effort. The Office of Personnel Management Welfare to Work web pages provide guidance regarding hiring authorities available for use in the efforts of Executive Departments and Agencies to provide employment opportunities for welfare recipients.
Government Employment For Welfare Recipients FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND agencies. SUBJECT Government Employmentfor welfare Recipients. Since I signed the historic welfare reform law, I http://www.opm.gov/wtw/html/welfarem.htm
Extractions: Since I signed the historic welfare reform law, I have urged businesses, nonprofit organizations, and religious groups across the Nation to help make its promise of opportunity real by offering jobs to welfare recipients. We are making great progress, but there is more to do. And today, I take action to ensure that the Federal Government, as the Nation's largest employer, contributes to the greatest extent possible to this national effort. In particular, I direct you to expand the use of the WorkerTrainee Program and other excepted service hiring authorities. The Worker-Trainee Program allows agencies to quickly and easily hire entry-level persons for up to 3 years, with the ability to convert the appointment to career status if the employee has performed satisfactorily. Though recently underutilized, the program allows agencies to bypass complex Federal personnel hiring rules and procedures to bring people into the junior grades of the work force.
Welfare Resources Internet Sources FEDERAL agencies/INFORMATION US DEPARTMENT OF ASSISTANCE (OFA)www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa TANF was created by the welfare reform Law of http://www.cohhio.org/resources/welfare.html
Contextual Variations In Welfare Reform Organizations, agencies Resources USDA Documents Documents from the US Department of Agriculture presenting impacts of the welfare reform Act upon food assistance programs. organizations monitors implementation of welfare reform by the states. of the Federal welfare reform Act's fiscal effect http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp/tap45.htm
Extractions: Dr. Wolman is a Professor in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs and in the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is serving as a visiting policy analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. DHHS, quite understandably, tends to think of the world in terms of individuals, families and households to whom it delivers services. However, those whose concern is with economic development and labor market policy tend to see the world more in terms of places and variations among places. What might be the implications for DHHS concerns, particularly the ability to move from welfare to work, if it attempted to think systematically about the problem of service delivery to individuals, families and households within the context of places or areas which differ in important respects? Do differences among areas in their characteristics affect the ability of individuals to move from welfare to work? What are these place-related characteristics? If they do affect the ability to move from welfare to work, what are the implications, particularly as we consider substantial changes in the existing welfare system, in terms of policy and legislation, technical assistance, and research and evaluation?
DHHS, Office For Civil Rights - Welfare Reform TA Caseworkers on Civil Rights Law and welfare reform, Office for the EEOC website,http//www.eeoc.gov ADA and Section 504 prohibit TANF agencies from utilizing http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/prohibition.html
Extractions: Summary of Policy Guidance Prohibition Against Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in the Administration of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing policy guidance on the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in the administration of TANF programs. On August 27, 1999, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued two-part guidance on civil rights laws and welfare reform. These materials explain how Federal civil rights laws apply to certain aspects of welfare reform. The purpose of the present guidance is to respond to a myriad of additional questions that have been raised by State agencies, counties, service providers, and persons with disabilities regarding the obligations to adopt methods for administering welfare programs to ensure equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in all aspects of a TANF program, including applications, assessments, work program activities, sanctions, and time limits. The guidance also is necessary because the Department has indicated that States may be subject to penalties if audits show that they "over-sanction," i.e., impose sanctions on individuals when sanctions are inappropriate. This policy guidance clarifies the obligations Title II of the ADA and Section 504 impose on State and local government entities, and on recipients of Federal financial assistance from HHS involved in TANF activities, in fulfilling their responsibilities pursuant to Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Extractions: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Discusses the Section 8 Voucher Program federal housing assistance levels direct beneficiaries of housing vouchers and the social benefits of housing vouchers. Can Housing Vouchers Help Poor Children? http://www.brookings.edu/comm/childrensroundtable/issue3/issue3.htm Duncan, G.J.; Ludwig, J.; July 2000 National Association of Counties Describes characteristics of the homeless, who is homeless and why. Examines differences between urban and rural homelessness and the impact of welfare reform on homelessness; cites best practices by counties. Federal Housing Assistance and Welfare Reform: Uncharted Territory http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/anf19.html
HHS - About HHS welfare reform. top of page. Office of the Secretary. Office of the General Counsel(OGC); Office of Inspector General (OIG). top of page. agencies in HHS. http://www.hhs.gov/about/
Extractions: top of page top of page Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Administration on Aging (AoA) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) ... Social Security Administration (The Social Security Agency became an independent agency in 1995. It is no longer part of HHS.) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Mental Health and Traumatic Events April 11, 2003
Welfare Reform - Intro not usually offered by service agencies because their fax 202659-2469; Internetwelfare@reeusda.gov. Prepared by the CSREES welfare reform Task Force, 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.
Extractions: Center for Law and Social Policy Analyzes changes in federal regulations and management that allow states to use TANF and state maintenance of effort (MOE) funds for new initiatives to help low income working families. Changing the 'Culture' of the Welfare Office: Report from Front-Line Workers http://www.nawrs.org/ClevelandPDF/marks.pdf Marks, E.L.; Aug 1999
Extractions: Mathematica Policy Research Concludes that health insurance alone is not enough to ensure access to care for low- income children; examines programs that target low- income families not eligible for Medicaid. Analysis of Children's Health Insurance Patterns: Findings From SIPP http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/Sippchip/toc.htm Czajka, J.L.; May 1999 Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Provides a detailed look at the dynamics of children's health insurance coverage, and the relationship between Medicaid eligibility and insurance coverage. IL, MD Children's Health Insurance Programs: State Implementation Approaches Are Evolving http://www.gao.gov May 1999
Extractions: /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = "Page Name" var server = "Server" var channel = "Channel" /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; document.write(' '); document.write('>') Resources For Welfare Decisions Volume 3 Issue 4 August 1999 Housing and Welfare Reform: Strategic Intersections in Place-Based Strategies Perhaps half of the 2 million families with children receiving housing assistance also receive cash assistance. Many more TANF families are unassisted by housing subsidies but risk housing crises in the absence of sustained employment. Housing and welfare programs have historically had different goals, and evidence of effectively linking housing and other anti-poverty strategies is limited. Welfare reform could bring new opportunities to enhance natural linkages for at least three reasons. Second, several HUD-funded programs are explicitly aimed at promoting self-sufficiency, and preference and rent options in the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 could encourage PHAs to pursue those objectives aggressively. Other programs (e.g., Empowerment Zones, Community and Economic Development and Supportive Services Block Grants, and especially HOPE VI) can be used to access jobs and supportive services. Housing and community development programs themselves are major job generators, and recipients of most federal housing funds are mandated to hire low income residents from the area. In addition, new flexibility in final TANF regulations may allow TANF and state maintenance of effort dollars to be used to prevent homelessness and for related purposes, irrespective of cash assistance.
93.595 - Welfare Reform Research, Evaluations And National Studies agencies where applicants are limited to those agencies. the hardto-employ; ruralwelfare reform initiatives, evaluations 3598, E-Mail KKOERPER@ACF.DHHS.gov. http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1292
93.647 - Social Services Research And Demonstration project involves the use of other agencies, facilities, or http//www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ocs forNeedy Families; 93.595, welfare reform Research, Evaluations http://www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog.asp?progid=1306
Fact Sheet: President Announces Welfare Reform Agenda these support programs, which now operate under different agencies, different rules toreach a historic, bipartisan agreement to reform the welfare system. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020226.html
Extractions: Objectives: To support research on the benefits, effects, and costs of different welfare reform interventions; to fund studies such as on the effects of different programs on welfare dependency, illegitimacy, teen pregnancy, employment rates, child well-being, and related areas; to assist in the development and evaluation of innovative approaches for reducing welfare dependency and increasing the well-being of minor children in welfare families; and to study and analyze outcome measures for evaluating the success of the States in moving individuals out of the welfare system into employment. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Applicant Eligibility Beneficiary Eligibility Credentials and Documentation ... Records Applicant Eligibility: Grants and cooperative agreements may be made to or with governmental entities, colleges, universities, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (if fee is waived). Contracts may be awarded to nonprofit or for-profit organizations. Grants or cooperative agreements cannot be made directly to individuals. Beneficiary Eligibility: Needy individuals, children, and families will benefit.
Welfare Reform to other Websites and Federal agencies Housing Services welfare reform Archives(Go to welfare reform Archives) Press at lori_bonicelli@carper.senate.gov. http://carper.senate.gov/welfare reform.html
Extractions: Ben Nelson and Bill Nelson Cosponsors of The Work and Family Act believe that as we embark upon the next generation of welfare reform, we must build on the successes of the 1996 law by continuing the "work-first" approach, and go further in our efforts to strengthen America's families to help them achieve genuine independence. The Work and Family Act sets bold objectives for the next phase of welfare reform and gives states the resources and flexibility they need to accomplish those goals. Printer Friendly Versions:
Extractions: October 31, 1997 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Current federal welfare policy requires minor custodial parents receiving cash assistance to attend school and live with their parents or in an adult-supervised setting. Congress established these requirements as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which created the program for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and abolished the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. While we have little ability to examine how these requirements are being implemented under TANF at this early date, we can observe how several states implemented similar requirements under federal waivers. his report summarizes lessons based on an examination of the operational experiences in four states that implemented school attendance and living arrangements requirements using federal waivers under the prior AFDC program. The four states are Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Virginia. The report draws lessons in three areas: (1) identifying teenage parents, (2) implementing school attendance requirements, and (3) implementing living arrangement requirements. IDENTIFYING TEENAGE PARENTS Identifying teenage parents, particularly those on someone else's grant, can be a major challenge.
