Changing Welfare Services : Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs

ISBN-13: 9780789023131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 456 str.

Michael J. Austin; Micheal J. Austin; Michael J. Austin

Opis

Austin (social welfare, University of California-Berkeley) presents case studies of programs and practices that have emerged in the US since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Cases focus on organizational changes such as the development of new training programs and the merging of employmen

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• Foreword (Maureen Borland)
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction (Michael J. Austin)
  
• Section I: An Overview of Welfare Reform Implementation and Practice
  
• Chapter 1. Implementing Welfare Reform and Guiding Organizational Change (Sarah Carnochan and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 2. Overview of Innovative Programs and Practices (Jonathan Prince and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Section II: Redefining Service Delivery
  
• REMOVING BARRIERS TO WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION
  
• Chapter 3. Connections Shuttle: Transportation for CalWORKs Participants (Debbie Downes and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 4. The Guaranteed Ride Home Program: Transportation Services for
  Welfare-to-Work Participants (Christine M. Schmidt and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 5. Training Exempt Providers to Deliver High-Quality Child Care
  Programs (Jonathan Prince and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 6. Integrating Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services into a County
  Welfare-to-Work Program (Christine M. Schmidt and Michael J. Austin)
  
• SELF-SUFFICIENCY SUPPORT SERVICES
  
• Chapter 7. Combining Business with Rehabilitation in a Public Work Center for
  Disabled and Low-Income Participants (Jonathan Prince and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 8. The Family Loan Program As a Public-Private Partnership (Susan E. Doyle and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 9. The Adopt-A-Family Program: Building Networks of Support (Susan E. Doyle and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 10. Utilizing Hotline Services to Sustain Employment (Christine M. Schmidt and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 11. Hiring TANF Participants to Work in a County Human Services
  Agency (Kirsten A. Deichert and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 12. Promoting Self-Sufficiency Through Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) (Judie Svihula and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Section III: Enhancing Community Partnerships
  
• NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPS
  
• Chapter 13. Fostering Neighborhood Involvement in Workforce Development: The
  Alameda County Neighborhood Jobs Pilot Initiative (Judie Svihula and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 14. Neighborhood Self-Sufficiency Centers (Christine M. Schmidt and Michael J. Austin)
  
• COMMUNITY-WIDE PARTNERSHIPS
  
• Chapter 15. A Community Partnership Approach to Serving the Homeless (Margaret K. Libby and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 16. Wraparound Services for Homeless TANF Families Recovering from
  Substance Abuse (Debbie Downes and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 17. Building a Coalition of Nonprofit Agencies to Collaborate with a
  County Health and Human Services Agency (Margaret K. Libby and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 18. Collaborative Partnerships Between a Human Services Agency and
  Local Community Colleges (Kirsten A. Deichert and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Section IV: Promoting Agency Restructuring
  
• Chapter 19. Introducing Organizational Development (OD) Practices into a County
  Human Service Agency (Andrea DuBrow, Donna Wocher, and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 20. Preparing Human Service Workers to Implement Welfare Reform:
  Establishing the Family Development Credential in a Human Services
  Agency (Judie Svihula and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 21. Merging a Workforce Investment Board and a Department of Social
  Services into a County Department of Employment and Human Services (Jonathan Prince and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 22. Blending Multiple Funding Streams into County Welfare-to-Work
  Programs (Christine M. Schmidt and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Chapter 23. Crossover Services Between Child Welfare and Welfare-to-Work
  Programs (Jonathan Prince and Michael J. Austin)
  
• Section V: Conclusion and Future Considerations
  
• Chapter 24. Managing Out: The Community Practice Dimensions of

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