Materials available through PAFESS include:
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Self-Sufficiency Standard
for Pennsylvania Summary Report (2001) For the Pennsylvania Self-Sufficiency Standard data for your county click here. To learn more about Self-Sufficiency Standards in other states, please visit our national project coordinator, Wider Opportunities for Women, at www.sixstrategies.org.
Self-Sufficiency Budget Worksheet is designed to help low-income persons and social service workers, counselors and others calculate how to achieve financial independence. The Worksheet explores how private subsidies (i.e. child support) and temporary public subsidies (i.e. child care, food stamps, Medicaid) can help families meet their basic needs until their wages rise to self-sufficiency levels and/or costs decrease (as when children enter school). The Budget Worksheet is in the process of being updated with 2001/2002 data. Please contact Ann DelCollo at (610) 543-5022 to request the corresponding Standard information (1998 data) to use with the current version of the Budget Worksheet. Self-Sufficiency Budget Worksheet (computerized version)
When Wages Aren't
Enough II
Published in the Fall of
1999 with PCCY
NEW VOICES SERIES
New Voices in Welfare Reform Written in the Fall of 1998, this
report has informed policy makers and social service agencies about TANF recipients' difficulties transitioning from welfare to work, so
that policy and programs could better meet welfare recipients' needs
for information and support.
New Voices Video features the stories of three women who are making the successful, but not easy, transition from welfare to self-sufficiency, as told in their own words. To request New Voices Video and the New Voices Video Supplement, please contact adelcollo@womensassoc.org
New Voices in Welfare Reform II
reports
on focus groups conducted around the state with women who have been
moving from welfare to work. Women reveal their personal
experiences and the challenges they face as they attempt to move
toward self-sufficiency.
Paths To
Self-Sufficiency
is an easy to use reference guide that provides low-income women and
human service providers with proven strategies to achieve economic
self-sufficiency. Based on several stories from the New Voices
documentary video and other stories from across the state, these
case studies for each of ten "paths" illustrate realistic and
realizable transitions from welfare to work.
The Human Resources Packet
is a comprehensive packet of materials outlining a broad array of
economic supports such as subsidies, tax credits and financial
counseling services available to low-income workers. Information
included in this easy-to-use packet describes each subsidy, tax
credit or other program in simple terms and provides information
about how to apply for these benefits.
The Delaware County Sector Employment Intervention
Project
Technical Report
covers the findings from the research and data collection stage of
the Delaware County Sector Intervention Project. The report
documents the sector research process, provides an analysis of the
labor market in Delaware County and serves as a guide for other
organizations interested in performing similar sector research and
analysis of other industries not covered in this report. The Delaware County Sector Intervention Project
is a workforce development program that addresses the needs of
low-income residents and Healthcare and
Information
Technology employers in Delaware County.
PARTNERSHIP ENDEAVORS
In an effort to
put tax money back into the pockets of low to moderate
The Campaign
Partnership Guide provides information on the these valuable tax
benefits and serves as a "how-to" guide for anyone interested in
embarking on their own outreach efforts.
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Investing in PA's Families: Economic Opportunity for All
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