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Welfare reform in California :

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Welfare reform in California :

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state and county implementation of CalWORKs in the second year /

Jacob Alex Klerman [and others].

Santa Monica, CA :

Rand,

2001.

xxxviii, 376 pages :

illustrations ;

28 cm.

Rand statewide CalWORKS evaluation

"MR-1177-CDSS"--Page 4 of cover.

"Prepared for the California Department of Social Services."

Accompanied by: Executive summary. ix, 31 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376).

This report describes the implementation of California's Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in its first two years. According to the CalWORKs welfare-to-work model, immediately following the approval of the aid application, nearly all recipients search for jobs in the context of Job Clubs. For those who do not find employment through job search, an intensive assessment and a sequence of activities follow, to identify and overcome barriers to employment. Implementation in most counties is proceeding more slowly than some observers had hoped, but about as fast as could realistically be expected. County welfare districts (CWDs) face the dual challenge of expanding their capacity to deal with the new, higher, steady-state workload that CalWORKs entails and handling the much larger one-time surge of old cases as they move through the system. Providing mandated support services--child care and transportation; education and training; and treatment for alcohol and substance abuse, mental health, and domestic abuse--has been a challenge for most CWDs. To cope with this expanded workload, they have made different capacity-building decisions. The slow pace of movement through the system is worrisome, however, given the five-year lifetime limit that aid recipients face. Finally, those who have found jobs often do not earn enough to move them completely off aid and toward self-sufficiency. Additional post-employment services appear to be needed. (MP).

RAND Corporation, Distribution Services, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, 310-451-7002, 310-451-6915 (fax)

Welfare reform in California.

Rand statewide CalWORKS evaluation

State and county implementation of CalWORKs in the second year

California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (Program)

California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (Program)

Public welfare-- California.

Welfare recipients-- Employment-- California.

Public welfare.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Children's Studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Demography.

Welfare recipients-- Employment.

California.

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SOC-- 006000

SOC-- 047000

Klerman, Jacob Alex.

California., Department of Social Services.

Rand Corporation.

20201208114719.0

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