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Title

Countywide evaluation of the Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency Plan : establishing the baselines / Robert F. Schoeni ... [et al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Labor and Population Program.
• Rand Corporation.
• Schoeni, Robert F.

Description

xxiv, 110 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

Responding to new opportunities and new funding, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted a Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency Plan (LTFSS) on November 16, 1999. The LTFSS envisions 46 interrelated projects with the common goal of promoting sustained self-sufficiency for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act of 1997 (CalWORKs) families, for former CalWORKs families, and for other low-income families in Los Angeles County. Five "headline indicators"--Low birth weight births, domestic violence arrests, annual income under poverty level, personal behaviors harmful to self or others, and teenage high school graduation-are being used to track each of the five outcome areas-good health; safety and survival; economic well-being; social and emotional well-being; and education/workforce readiness, respectively. This report presents estimates of the indicators for Los Angeles County, lays out a "baseline" trend for the indicators, describes the factors that have caused the baseline trends for the headline indicators to appear as they do-telling the "story behind the baseline," and provides forecasts for the five headline indicators.

Subject

• California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (Program)
• Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency Plan (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
• Public welfare > Los Angeles County
• Welfare recipients > Employment > Los Angeles County

Note

• "MR-1466."
• "Prepared for County of Los Angeles."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Good Health: Low Birth Weight Births -- 3. Safety and Survival: Domestic Violence Arrests -- 4. Economic Well-Being: Annual Income Under Poverty Level -- 5. Social and Emotional Well-Being: Personal Behaviors Harmful to Self or Others -- 6. Education and Workforce Readiness: Teenage High School Graduation -- 7. Conclusions and Next Steps -- App. A. Initial Funding for Each Project and the Headline Indicators the Projects Expect to Affect -- App. B. Data Sources and Estimates of all Indicators not on the Data Development Agenda.

ISBN

0833031724

LCCN

^^2002021365

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library