Welfare Reform in California [[electronic resource] ] : State and County Implementation of Calworks in the First Year

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455175603321
• Autore: Zellman Gail L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Monica, : RAND Corporation, The, 1999
• ISBN: 0-8330-4337-4; 0-585-23508-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (27 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SteinbergPaul; KlermanJacob A
• Soggetti: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (Program); Public welfare -- California; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- California; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""PREFACE""; ""FIGURES""; ""TABLES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Background""; ""Objective""; ""ORGANIZATIONS HAVE CHANGED IN RESPONSE TO THE EXPANDED MISSION OF CalWORKs, DESPITE LIMITED TIME FOR PLANNING""; ""Implementing CalWORKs Entails a Profound Expansion of the Organizational Mission""; ""Late Legislation Limited the Time Available for County-Level Planning""; ""As a Result, Counties Have Been Forced to Implement with Only Limited Planning""; ""Counties Are Using Different Strategies to Deal with Key Implementation Requirements""; ""Running Eligibility and Welfare-to-Work Activities""""Coordinating Operations with Other Agencies and Service Providers""; ""Apportioning New Agency Responsibility to Staff""; ""Increasing the Use of Outsourcing""; ""IMPLEMENTATION IS UNDER WAY, BUT RECIPIENT COMPLIANCE IS LOW""; ""Implementation Is Under Way but Is Far from Complete""; ""High Job-Placement Rates Mask a Noncompliance Problem""; ""Although Counties Are Still Developing Sanction Programs, Many Are Concerned They Will Be Ineffective When in Place""; ""COUNTIES CURRENTLY HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS, BUT THIS MAY ; CHANGE""; ""The Counties Currently Have Sufficient Funds""""The Shift to a Single TANF Block Grant""; ""Other Funding Streams""; ""Declining Caseloads""; ""Carryover Funds""; ""How Much Do These Factors Affect Per-Case Funding?""; ""CountiesÃŒ Fiscal Status Could Change Dramatically""; ""Internal Factors""; ""External Factors""; ""As a Result, the Responses of County Welfare Agencies Vary""; ""ACHIEVING EARNINGS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE SELF- SUFFICIENCY BEFORE TIME LIMITS EXPIRE IS A CHALLENGE""; ""Under CalWORKs, Work Pays""; ""Moving Recipients to Self-Sufficiency Is Challenging""; ""Counties Need to Work to Meet the Challenge""""IMPLICATIONS FOR FOLLOW-ON ACTIVITIES""; ""Theme 1: Organizational Change""; ""Theme 2: Implementation and Noncompliance""; ""Theme 3: Sufficiency of Funding""; ""Theme 4: Transition to Self-Sufficiency""