WCPC Publications
The West Coast Poverty Center produces several publications intended to increase awareness and
understanding of poverty issues. These aim to inform the research community of new poverty research
and to bring poverty-relevant knowledge to policymakers and practitioners, serving as a bridge between
the academic and policy communities. We hope these publications will help to create an informed and
energized community that unites poverty researchers and practitioners.
Poverty Research Flash
The West Coast Poverty Center’s Poverty Research Flash alerts the research community to new research
by Center faculty affiliates on causes, consequences, and effective policy responses to poverty. The
one-page Poverty Flash highlights data sources and methods as well as results.
Poverty Research Flash January 2010
Frontline Worker Responses to Domestic Violence
Disclosure in Public Welfare Offices
This issue highlights new findings by West Coast Poverty Center Faculty Affiliates Taryn Lindhorst and Marcia K. Meyers and their colleague Erin Casey, forthcoming in Social Work.
Key Findings:
Although prior research suggests that up to one-quarter of TANF recipients have suffered domestic violence in the previous year, only three percent (22 cases) of a sample of 782 interviews between welfare case workers and clients included a disclosure of domestic violence by a client.
In general, caseworkers did not provide mandated services for domestic violence victims. Of the clients who disclosed domestic violence to their caseworkers, only half received concrete information about services or available waivers of welfare program rules.
In five of the 22 cases, caseworkers effectively ignored clients’ disclosures of domestic violence. Caseworkers employed “best practices” after domestic violence disclosure –i.e., providing emotional support, asking follow-up questions, giving information about potential waivers, and providing clients with referrals to outside sources of support such as shelters – in only three cases.
The authors conclude that problems with implementation of the domestic violence policies reflect a systemic reluctance to address issues of violence with women rather than problems of individual workers.
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Previous Poverty Research Flashes
2009
Issue 10 Enumerating Inequality: The Constitution, the Census Bureau, and the Criminal Justice
by Becky Pettit
Issue 09 Building Economies from the Bottom Up: (Mis)representations of Poverty in the Rural American Northwest
by Vicki Lawson, Lucy Jarosz and Anne Bonds
Issue 07-08 Old Assumptions, New Realities: Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century
by Jacob Hacker, Paul Osterman, Jodi Sandfort, Michael Sherraden, and Michael Stoll
Issue 06 Waiting Tables in Two Chains and States: Investigating Front-Line Job Quality across Organizations and Policy Contexts
by Anna Haley-Lock and Stephanie Ewert
Issue 05 The Effects of University Affirmative Action Policies on the Human Capital Development of Minority Children: Do Expectations Matter?
by Ronald Caldwell
Issue 04 Food Insufficiency, Food Stamp Participation, and Mental Health
Issue 03 Influences of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Capital on the Subjective Health of Adolescents
by Gunnar Almgren
Issue 02 Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis in U.S. Agriculture
by Anita Alves Pena
Issue 01 Subsidized Housing and Household Hardship Among Low-Income Single-Mother Households
by Lawrence M. Berger, Theresa Heintze, Wendy B. Naidich, and Marcia K. Meyers
2008
Issue 13 Place, Scale, and the Racial Claims Made for Multiracial Children in the 1990 U.S. Census
by Steven R. Holloway, Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, and Margaret East
Issue 12 Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
by Scott W. Allard
Issue 11 Barriers to Employment Among TANF Applicants and Their Consequences for Self-Sufficiency
by Mark E. Courtney and Amy Dworsky
Issue 10 The Structure of Teenage Employment: Social Background and the Jobs Held by High School Seniors
by Charles Hirschman and Irina Voloshin
Issue 08 / 09 Special Issue on Second Generation Immigrants
highlighting work by Alejandro Portes, William Haller, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Paul Jargowsky, Min Zhou, John Logan, Sookhee Oh, and Jennifer Darrah
Issue 07 Education's Effect on Poverty: The Roles of Migration and Labor Markets
by Bruce Weber, Alexander Marre, Monica Fisher, Robert Gibbs, and John Cromartie
Issue 06 Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the national Latino and Asian American Study
by David Takeuchi,
Pinka Chatterji,
Margarita
Alegria, and
Mingshan Lu
Issue 05 Accumulating Disadvantage: The Growth in the Black-White Wage Gap among Women
by Raine Dozier
Issue 04 To Move or Not to Move: Relationships to Place and Relocation Choices in HOPE VI
by Rachel Kleit and Lynne Manzo.
Issue 03 Redlining or Risk: A Spatial Analysis of Auto Insurance Rates in Los Angeles
by
Paul M. Ong, and Michael Stoll.
Issue 02 Domestic Violence, Employment, and Welfare Outcomes
by Taryn
Lindhorst, Monica Oxford, and Mary Rogers Gillmore
Issue 01 Child Care: Who Gets What From Government?
By Alesha Durfee and Marcia K. Meyers
2007
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Poverty Brief
Our Poverty Briefs offer policy makers and practitioners an accessible discussion of the latest poverty
research, focusing on findings with particular relevance for policy and practice. Generally about six
pages in length, including useful charts and graphs, Poverty Briefs draw from the recent work of West
Coast Poverty Center faculty affiliates and others.
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