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General Information
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| Evaluator(s) |
Center for Social Services Research, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
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| Investigator(s) |
Jill Duerr Berrick
(University of California at Berkeley)
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| Domain |
Income Security/TANF
Child/Family
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| Status |
Completed (final report released)
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| Type |
Research and/or Program Evaluation
Policy Analysis
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| Program/Policy Description |
Child Welfare in a CalWORKs Environment is a curriculum intended for use in training social work students, child welfare workers and social service administrators about the impacts of welfare reform on public child welfare service delivery. The curriculum combines policy, historical, and data analyses to provide a groundwork for rethinking child welfare services in the context of California's new welfare law. In particular, the curriculum uses administrative data from the old AFDC program to analyze the overlap between welfare and child welfare populations and assess the potential impact of CalWORKs on the dynamics of kin care giving.
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| Notes |
No notes reported.
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| Last Updated |
02/10/99
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| Type of Summary |
Unreviewed
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| Contact(s) |
Susan Katzenellenbogen (cssr@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Center for Social Services Research, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
16 Haviland Hall #7400
School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(T) (510) 642-1899
(F) (510) 642-1895
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| Submitter(s) |
Sophia Lee (zoila@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Center for Social Services Research, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
16 Haviland Hall #7400
School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(T) (510) 643-2586
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Populations Studied
| Target Population |
Recipients/participants/clients
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| Subgroups Analyzed |
Pregnant/parenting teens
Single parent families
Two-parent families
Non-custodial parents
Persons with substance abuse problems
Domestic violence victims
Children 1-6
Social/Community service agencies
Caseworkers/managers/administrators
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| Sample Size and Unit |
Part I used probability matching software to link AFDC Medi-Cal, and child welfare histories of children. The Medi-Cal data is provided for a random 10% sample of the statewide recipient population and the child welfare reporting data are only available for a 10 county sample. Complete data were available for a final sample of 63,768 children in the 10 counties. Unit of analysis is the child Part II used a sample of all females under age 18 in California's foster care system in 1994. Unit of analysis is the adolescent female. Part III used a variety of administrative data sources for with varying sample sizes for each analysis. Unit of analysis is the older caregiver or their household.
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| Execution |
Not applicable.
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Sites Studied
California, with some data analysis restricted to using data from a 10 county sample
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