What I Do In My Job

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How I Would Change Welfare

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Education vs. Welfare – Please Set Your Priorities on Stun

Last week the rate of Homeless Welfare parents who sat at my desk without earning a GED or High School Diploma was 80%. The number was easy to calculate: I only saw 20 clients and 16 of them came to CalWORKS without a High school Education. Of the 4 who had a GED/HS Diploma – one […]

FRAUD! How to See it and Report it …

(800) 349-9970 Money that is mispent here is stolen from the needy. Examples:

Politics and Welfare -Myths

CalWORKS is growing fast and contributing to the Budget Deficit in California Since it began, CalWORKS has added $12 Billion to the state General Fund. This is because the funds have been shifted from TANF and Maintenance Effort accounts into the General Funds. (Basically, CalWORKS funds are not all needed by CalWORKS so they are diverted […]

I NEED Community Service ideas

for low-income parents who will have child care and transportation already taken care of for them. I have a population of adults with education varying from GED’s in progress to Bachelor degrees. Many of them have Vocational Training in Medical Assisting and General Office. The point of Community Service is to help my clients engage […]

CALWORKS is not a political football

So stop tossing it around like the program is a pastime or a toy. Seriously! I get that picking on the poor (who are the least likely to vote) is super easy. No one wants to be them and it scares us so we despise them. Sometimes we feel that we are successful only because we […]

Sometimes the “system” is broken

She was just here – a bright and smiling mother of three elementary school children. I try to keep looking at her in the eyes and not let my eyes wander to the dents in her skull or scars on her arms where she was hit over and over again with a hammer. She was […]

Work for Welfare

Every thing you wanted to know about GAIN and how you already have work required for Welfare

My Friday Success Story

OMG! I had heard that if someone has a guarentee of employment we can pay for training related to that job. I had never tried to apply for that funding on behalf of a client before. Guess what?!?! I just called the client to tell them the training fees will be on his EBT card on […]