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A Vision for Eliminating Poverty and Family Violence: Transforming Child Welfare and TANF in El Paso County, Colorado
Publication Date: January 2003
Publisher(s): Center for Law and Social Policy
Author(s): Rutledge Q. Hutson
Funder(s): Annie E. Casey Foundation
Funder(s): Annie E. Casey Foundation
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Topic: Social conditions (Poverty and homelessness)
Social conditions (Public welfare and social services)
Social conditions (Marriage and family life)
Type: Report
Coverage: United States Colorado
Abstract:
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program in El Paso County (Colorado Springs), Colorado, considers itself a child abuse and neglect prevention program, while the child welfare program considers itself an anti-poverty program. These philosophical changes in program orientation were adopted to implement the Department of Human Services' bold new vision of eliminating poverty and family violence.
Supplementary file: 8-page policy brief.