scholarly journals Service Providers' Perception of Factors that Help or Hinder Homeless Families

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Supports ◽  
Homeless Shelter ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Significant Barrier

Homeless shelter directors in two southern states were surveyed to ascertain their perceptions of factors that help or hinder homeless, mother-headed families in emerging from homelessness. Respondents believed that mothers' attitudes and motivation were the most important factors in getting and keeping housing and that lack of social supports and relationship difficulties were the most significant problems families faced in their attempts to emerge from homelessness. Scarce housing was seen as the most significant barrier within the community. The findings are compared with findings from other studies, and explanations for differing results are presented. The author discusses the implications of the findings for service providers and communities in light of recent welfare-reform legislation.

“Influx”

2012 ◽  
Vol 642 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty L. McCall
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
Reform Legislation

As a direct result of the 1995 welfare reform legislation, some metropolitan areas relocated women on their welfare rolls through a process called “Greyhound therapy.” Many of these women ended up in rural areas that were not only unprepared to meet their specific needs but also not receptive to their presence. This article tells the story of these women, who were moved almost two hundred miles from a large Pennsylvania city to a small town in a rural region.

What Did the "Illegitimacy Bonus" Reward?

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanders Korenman ◽  
Ted Joyce ◽  
Robert Kaestner ◽  
Jennifer Walper
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Racial Composition ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Compositional Changes ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Abstract The Out-Of-Wedlock Birth Reduction Bonus (“Illegitimacy Bonus”), part of the 1996 welfare reform legislation, awarded up to $100 million in each of five years to the five states with the greatest reduction in the non-marital birth ratio. Alabama, Michigan, and Washington D.C. each won bonuses four or more times, claiming nearly 60% of award monies. However, for these bonus winners, changes in the racial composition of births accounted for between one-third and 100% of the decline in the non-marital birth ratio. The non-marital birth ratio fell most in D.C., averaging 1.5 percentage points per year over the award period. Declines in non-marital birth ratios in Michigan and Alabama were slight. But the non-marital birth ratio fell in D.C. in large part because the number of black children born there fell dramatically, and a decline in the black population alone accounted for one third of the decline in black births. Within-race changes in non-marital birth ratios raised the overall non-marital birth ratio 0.5 percentage points in Alabama, and lowered the non-marital ratio by one percentage point in Michigan, and by about three percentage points in Washington D.C. Because it was based on unadjusted changes in states’ aggregate non-martial birth ratios, the Illegitimacy Bonus rewarded racial/ethnic compositional changes at least as much as it rewarded declining non-marital birth ratios within major racial/ethnic groups.

scholarly journals Mothers' Perceptions of Factors Influencing the Restabilization of Homeless Families

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Family Homelessness ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
External Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Homeless Mothers

Family homelessness has increased dramatically in the past decade, but little attention has been focused on the process by which homeless families become restabilized. The author presents findings from a qualitative study of the restabilisation process. Four factors that affect the process are discussed: children, personal resources, external resources, and socioeconomic context. The findings indicate the significant role shelter staff and other social service providers can play in assisting mothers in both emotional and instrumental ways. Implications for direct practice with homeless mothers and their families are discussed as well as implications for policy and program development.

scholarly journals Cost-reduction strategies in massive genomics experiments

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haichao Li ◽  
Kun Wu ◽  
Chenchen Ruan ◽  
Jiao Pan ◽  
Yujin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genome Sequencing ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Modern Biology ◽  
Dna Library ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Significant Barrier ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Genomics Tools ◽  
Funding Pressure

Abstract Many modern biology studies require deep, whole-genome sequencing of hundreds to thousands of samples. Although per-sample costs have dramatically decreased, the total budget for such massive genome sequencing constitutes a significant barrier for poorly funded labs. The costly lab tools required for genomics experiments further hinder such studies. Here, we share two strategies for extensively reducing the costs of massive genomics experiments, including miniaturization of the NEBNext Ultra II FS DNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina (reducing the per-sample total costs to ~ 1/6 of that charged by service providers) and in-lab 3D model-designing of genomics tools. These strategies not only dramatically release funding pressure for labs, but also provide students with additional training in hands-on genomics and 3D-model-designing skills, demonstrating the high potential for their application in genomics experiments and science education.

Poverty and the (Broken) Promise of Higher Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivyan Adair
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
College Degrees ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Economic Equity ◽  
Do So

In this article, Vivyan Adair argues that educators committed to fostering social and economic equity through education must challenge themselves to understand how crucial postsecondary education is to low-income single mothers, to recognize that this student population is increasingly "at risk," and to work against legislation that at best discourages, and at worst prohibits, these students from entering into and successfully completing postsecondary degree programs. Integrated into her discussion of recent welfare reform legislation are findings from her research. She presents data from interviews, in which students describe their desire to further their education and the frustrating obstacles that make this endeavor difficult and often impossible. Adair demonstrates that low-income, single-mother students experience dramatic and enduring benefits from completing college degrees, but that the opportunity and support required to do so is increasingly limited. She concludes that we must take steps toward ensuring that education remains a truly democratic project that has the potential for enacting social change and fostering economic equity. (pp. 217–239)

Welfare Reform and Immigrant Participation in Welfare Programs

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1093-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Borjas
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
National Level ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Welfare Participation ◽  
Proposition 187 ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of the 1996 welfare reform legislation on welfare use in immigrant households. Although the data indicate that the welfare participation rate of immigrants declined relative to that of natives at the national level, this national trend is entirely attributable to the trends in welfare participation in California. Immigrants living in California experienced a precipitous drop in their welfare participation rate (relative to natives). Immigrants living outside California experienced roughly the same decline in participation rates as natives. The potential impact of welfare reform on immigrants residing outside California was neutralized because many state governments responded to the federal legislation by offering state-funded programs to their immigrant populations and because the immigrants themselves responded by becoming naturalized citizens. The very steep decline of immigrant welfare participation in California is harder to understand, but could be a by-product of the changed political and social environment following the enactment of Proposition 187.

scholarly journals Newcomer ReSettlement in a Globalized World

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharati Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Supports ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Settlement Policies ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

This paper presents findings from part of a larger Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) entitled ‘Newcomer Settlement and Integration in Education, Training, Employment, Health and Social Support in Grand Erie’. Data was gathered from 212 newcomers (men and women) and 237 service providers. The qualitative and quantitative responses to the survey questionnaires (newcomers and service providers) on social supports highlight newcomers’ experiences of discrimination, as well as draw attention to the unique barriers that immigrant/refugee women experience in their resettlement. The multifaceted nature of factors contributing to newcomer integration requires collaboration between newcomers, service providers, and government officials. The study findings have important implications for social work practise and settlement policies in an increasingly globalized world.

scholarly journals Welfare Reform: The Positioning of Academic Work

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Steele ◽  
Cynthia Wallat
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Heterogeneous Population ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come

Current welfare reform legislation raises a number of questions about how the field of human services will broaden its analytical and educational functions in a context of uncertainty about what welfare will look like in the years to come. How can information and insights about the distribution of welfare dollars and the process of leaving welfare by a heterogeneous population of clients become the basis of contrastive analysis? We describe information sources which can provide a framework for positioning academic work to use longitudinal quantitative tracking sources to lay out qualitative inquiry suggestions for collecting process data that will emerge over time. We suggest that such data will be valuable to practitioners working with persons composing their own histories in the face of the admonishing welfare construct "get off welfare."

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