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Additional Topics
Topics including domestic violence, diversion, child welfare and welfare-to-work, among others.
 Life Without Welfare:
Do Welfare Avoidance Grants Prevent or Simply Delay Welfare Receipt?
(March 2006)
Andrea Hetling, Kirk Tracy, Catherine E. Born
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This study examines a critical assumption about the nature of diversion programs. That is, are diversion programs, specifically lump-sum cash grants, a cost effective alternative to traditional monthly cash grant programs? Are diverted clients actually “diverted” from welfare, or are they just using equivalent funds in a different way, or, similarly, is their entrance into monthly welfare programs just delayed for a short time?
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Barriers to Independence Among TANF Recipients:
Comparing Caseworker Records & Client Surveys* (June 2005)
Pamela C. Ovwigho, Correne Saunders, Catherine E. Born
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A study examining the correlation between the presence of barriers as reported by clients to survey researchers and the identification of those same issues as employment
barriers in clients' welfare agency files.
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Maryland's Child-Only Caseload: A Comparison
of Parental and Non-Parental Cases* (April 2005)
Andrea Hetling, Correne Saunders, Catherine E. Born
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This report describes Maryland's child-only caseload and makes comparisons between not only non-child-only and child-only cases but also sub-groups within this population.
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“Missing” Domestic Violence Victims in Welfare Caseloads: The Discrepancy Between Survey and Administrative Disclosure Rates* (March 2004)
Andrea Hetling, Correne Saunders, Catherine E. Born
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The first series of three reports on domestic violence examined the implementation of the Family
Violence Option (FVO) in Maryland and the outcomes of the individuals participating in Maryland’s FVO.
This paper expands our approach to the question of domestic violence and cash assistance in that it also considers
those individuals who choose not to disclose abuse to their welfare caseworkers and thus do not participate in the Option.
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Legal Barriers to Self-Sufficiency: The Somerset County Legal Services Project (July 2003)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Shafali Srivastava, Ann Ferrero, Catherine E. Born
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A study of welfare and employment outcomes for families in Somerset County, MD, that received free legal assistance provided by the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS).
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Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt in Maryland: Linking Individual Outcomes to Implementation and Jurisdictional Differences* (January 2003)
Andrea Hetling-Wernyj, Catherine E. Born
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The third of a series of three on domestic violence and welfare receipt in Maryland, this report ties together the findings of the first two reports and presents multivariate statistical analysis to complete the multi-method evaluation of the Family Violence Option (FVO) in Maryland.
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Life Without Welfare: The Prevalence and Outcomes of Diversion Strategies in Maryland (August 2002)
Darren Lacey, Andrea Hetling-Wernyj, Catherine E. Born
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The premise of diversion is that on-going cash assistance is not always the best way to meet the financial needs of at-risk families and if other, more appropriate aid can be provided, their need to become welfare users in the traditional sense may be obviated. This study describes the characteristics of 4,219 families diverted from Maryland’s TANF program, the extent to which diversion is used, and outcomes from this new program.
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Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt in Maryland: How is the Family Violence Option Being Implemented? (July 2002)
Andrea Hetling-Wernyj, Catherine E. Born
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The second of a series of three on domestic violence and welfare receipt in Maryland, this report examines the implementation of the Family Violence Option (FVO) at the jurisdictional level.
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Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt in Maryland: Are domestic violence victims different from other welfare recipients? (March 2002)
Andrea Hetling-Wernyj, Catherine E. Born
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This report is the first in a series of three on findings from the project Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt in Maryland, and focuses on describing the prevalence and correlates of domestic violence in the Maryland Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) caseload.
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Characteristics and Service Utilization Patterns of Maryland Adult Services Customers (February 2002)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Dorothy Ruck, Catherine E. Born
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The Office of Adult Services (OAS) of the Community Services Administration, Maryland Department of Human Resources, operates a variety of programs which serve the needs of adults with disabilities, as well as those who are elderly and/or vulnerable. This report presents an analysis of the characteristics and service use patterns (including OAS pograms, TCA and Food Stamps) of individuals who received services from OAS in Maryland at some point during FY 2001.
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The Impact 2000 Project: Final Report (January 2002)
Family Welfare Research and Training Group
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In 1998, the Baltimore City Department of Social Services and the Baltimore City Community College, with approval from the Maryland Department of Human Resources, began operating a pilot program, Investing My Potential to Attain College Training (IMPACT 2000), targeted at adult recipients of Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) in Baltimore City. This report examines the results: did TCA customers who took part in this program fare better in the labor market than customers who did not participate?
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Understanding TANF Outcomes in Context: The Relationships Among Front-Line Assessment, Agency Characteristics, Local Economic/ Demographic Characteristics and Customer and Jurisdictional Level TANF Outcomes* (January 2002)
Leanne W. Charlesworth, Mary Morris Hyde, Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Catherine E. Born
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A report describing the design, conduct and findings of a multi-year, multi-method Maryland study of welfare reform implementation and outcomes. The study documents customer- and county-level reform outcomes and examines how variations in front-line client assessment practice and other factors such as characteristics of local welfare agencies and local jurisdictions influence those outcomes.
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The TANF Time Limit: Profile of Families at Imminent Risk* (February 2001)
Welfare and Child Support Research and Training Group
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This report, using administrative data and case manager-provided survey data, profiles the characteristics of cases at most immediate risk of reaching the 60-month time limit on federally-financed assistance payments.
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Research Brief 01-03: Long Term AFDC Recipients: Experiences in the First Years of TANF (August 2001)
Melinda L. Cordero, Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Catherine E. Born
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This brief examines long-term AFDC recipients and their experiences with cash assistance participation and employment under both AFDC and TANF.
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Research Brief 01-02: Child Welfare Entries Among Maryland Welfare Leavers Before and After Welfare Reform (July 2001)
Katharine L. Leavitt, Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Catherine E. Born
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This brief provides an overview of individual and case-level demographic characteristics and child welfare utilization among children in cases that exited cash assistance before, just after, and later, under welfare reform in Maryland.
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Research Brief 01-01: Utility of MABS and New Hires for Evaluating Welfare-to-Work Vendors (July 2001)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Melinda L. Cordero, Catherine E. Born
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This brief examines the the utility of the Maryland Automated Benefits System (MABS) and New Hires data in accessing the outcomes of welfare-to-work placements.
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Setting the Baseline: Child Welfare Entries Among AFDC Exiters (July 2001)
Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Katharine L. Leavitt, Catherine E. Born
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This report studies the relationship between welfare exits and child welfare entries under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and attempts to determine more accurately the impacts of welfare reform, if any, on child welfare.
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Welfare-to-Work Programs for a Diverse Caseload:
Evaluation of Seven Demonstration Projects (January 2001)
Catherine E. Born, Pamela Caudill Ovwigho, Danielle J. Fagan
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In the first year of welfare reform in Maryland, the Department of Human Resources, Community Servies Administration, funded seven welfare-to-work demonstration projects specifically designed to serve customers with significant barriers to employment. This report summarizes the results of the evaluation of those programs by the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
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Assessment: An Overview (March 1999)
Leanne Charlesworth, Catherine E. Born, Allison West
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In this monograph, the definitions and functions of assessment in general as well as assessment issues specific to welfare are described. The focus is on issues of particular relevance to assessment in the welfare-to-work environment and decisions that must be made by those designing and implementing assessment approaches.
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Setting the Baseline: Patterns of Recidivism in Maryland Under AFDC* (July 1998)
Catherine E. Born, Pamela J. Caudill, Melinda L. Cordero
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This study examines 453 women who, during the nine-year period from first receipt in 1987 to May of 1996, exited AFDC at least once and remained off welfare for 30 days or more, to determine which characteristics differentiate recidivists from non-recidivists.
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