Welfare Reform: Facilitating The Bottom Up Approach

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Catherine Sugg
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Original System ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Florida is unique in the approach it has adopted to implement welfare reform. It has handed over the responsibility of reworking the original system to local communities by establishing local WAGES Coalitions. WAGES is an acronym that stands for Work and Gain Economic Self-Sufficiency. It is the only state approaching welfare reform in quite this way and our citizen boards are revolutionizing government in Florida.

TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS: A MODEL FOR A GLOBAL MANAGEMENT OF THE TERRITORY

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia ROCCHI ◽  
Adriano CIANI
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Global Management ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
Territorial Management ◽  
Management Contracts

Bottom-up solutions for managing the territory have been increase their importance in the last years. Local communities want to be involved in the management of the territory to avoid problems and to promote economic and social activities. Several different forms of participatory contracts have been developed during the last decades. However, a framework to enforce each single solution are required. The Territorial Management Contracts (TMCs) would like to give a contribute in such a direction. The contribute briefly illustrates the Territorial Management Contracts, to open a debate on them.

scholarly journals Pratiche e progettualità di rigenerazione e welfare: il “Premio triennale Giulio Andreolli – Fare paesaggio”

ARCHALP ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (N. 4 / 2020) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Tecilla
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Alpine Area ◽  
The Many

The “Premio Triennale Giulio Andreolli – Fare Paesaggio” was born in 2016 with the aim of en-hancing landscape experiences in the European Alpine area. It is divided into three sections: plan-ning and programming initiatives, architectural and landscape interventions and education and par-ticipation actions. The success of the award shows the growing and transversal interest in landscape issues, both at in-stitutional and professional level, in the context of spontaneous and “bottom-up” initiatives. One emergent aspect of interest during the various editions is the birth of a large number of activi-ties related to the management of traditional rural landscape, and oriented to the knowledge of terri-tories and to the involvement of the inhabitants. These local communities are often engaged in new organizational methods, driven by sincere enthusiasm and civic sense. That is the reason why one of the most interesting elements emerging from the award experience must be sought in this intertwining between popular initiatives and both professional and institu-tional approaches. Bounding this reflection to the regeneration-driven production, which is the main topic of this issue, it is possible to isolate, among the many cases nominated for the award, some interesting experienc-es in which, with different outcomes, designers and clients have dealt with contemporary architec-ture, touching important themes related to the transformation of alpine landscapes.

From Enabling to Bootstrapping: Welfare Workers' Views of Substance Abuse and Welfare Reform

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dohan ◽  
Laura Schmidt ◽  
Stuart Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Substance Use Problems ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Drug Problems ◽  
Welfare Workers

In the United States, a trope of “deservingness” shapes policy related to public aid and substance abuse. In recent decades, poor people with substance use problems have increasingly been seen as “undeserving.” Federal welfare reform, passed in the mid-1990s, is an important exemplar of this trend. Welfare reform empowered line workers to directly and indirectly withhold aid from people with substance use problems. This paper uses in-depth interviews with workers to explore their views of these new policies. Workers generally applauded welfare reform's renewed attention to deservingness, including program emphases on client self-sufficiency and personal accountability and policies that time-limited cash aid and mandated working. They felt that these changes allowed them to stop “enabling” substance abuse and to encourage clients with alcohol and drug problems to bootstrap their way into jobs. Workers' embrace of these policy changes appears likely to shape how substance abuse problems are addressed within the welfare system.

Linkages between Work and Health of Parents and Children in the Florida Wages Program

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Ronald Habin
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Reform Program ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Cash Benefits ◽  
Work And Health

The State of Florida implemented its welfare reform program entitled Work and Gain Economic Self Sufficiency (WAGES) in October, 1996. Key elements of the program are a two-year limit on cash benefits with a lifetime limit of four years. Within a year, that program's philosophy was emulated at the federal level, and within two years, the State reported that more than 60,000 families had moved off of welfare. This article attempts to discern whether these families are more likely to obtain ‘quality health care’ as a result of these changes.

Self‐Sufficiency, Ecology of Work, and Welfare Reform

2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Daugherty ◽  
Gerard M. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Learning to Labor, Love, and Live: Shaping the Good Neoliberal Citizen in State Work and Marriage Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Randles ◽  
Kerry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Promoting work and marriage were primary aims of the 1996 welfare reform bill, yet implementation of these dual goals has not been analyzed comparatively. In analyzing our respective ethnographic data from government-funded work and marriage classes, we identified similarities in the programs’ focus on teaching the cognitive and emotional skills presumed to comprise what we call the good neoliberal citizen. Drawing on the programs’ curricula and our class observations, we reveal how both pillars of welfare reform sought to promote individual responsibility and economic self-sufficiency among poor parents by teaching skill-based strategies for regulating participants’ thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. We argue that by framing economic mobility as the result of learned capacities for skillful self-regulation and proper planning in the realms of work and family, welfare programs’ attempts to create good neoliberal citizens obscure the structural factors that sustain poverty and the need for welfare.

scholarly journals Overall Framework of the Foundations and Pillars of Sustainable Development for Local Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Randa Galal Hussein Ali
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
The Government

Egypt as a developing country aims to promote sustainability among its various sectors. Noticing the need for promoting better life among local communities, as the corner stone for promoting sustainable development, the government has initiated a number of private and public attempts that aimed for utilizing the local communities as a catalyst for promoting sustainability. After 3 decades of real attempts for promoting local sustainability approaches most of the attempts has failed to achieve its objectives. The research aims to introduce an innovative practical approach that would have the ability to overcome the defined deficiencies of the existing approaches and to practically promote sustainability among local communities. The research methodology will depend on an analytical comparative analysis of the existing sustainability local communities frameworks based on which the deficiency and contributions of the current situation can be defined. Then based on theoretical analysis the research is to innovate and introduce a new approach for promoting local sustainable communities, ’Foundation and Pillars for Sustainable local communities’ (FPSLC). The developed framework was then applied to Damietta Governorate as a case study where it was tested and proven. The research developed frame work is requested by the development agencies in Egypt to enable the achievement outputs and result of this research can be summarized in the formulation of the conceptual framework for sustainable development and mechanisms leading to realizing self sufficiency within the competitive industries through the introduced pillars of development.

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