However, only one in four income-eligible households with children receive public housing assistance due to limited funds. Voucher programs have a long waiting list and families often find themselves waiting for up to 10 years to receive a voucher (Housing & Development, 2000). Taken together, ...
“Then when they turn 18, the facility says, ‘Good luck; you’re no longer able to reside here,’” Hirschman says. “That’s when we see a lot of the teenage youth start living on the streets, trying to g...
the Boston Consulting Groupfor Arizona State University), but you will save money on campus housing, meal plans, and transportation. That being said, you’ll need to be very disciplined and focused since you won’t have to physically visit campus multiple times per week to get your education...
There are two main housing options available to older foster youths. The county either provides a stipend they can use to find a place on the open market or provides free supervised housing, often with a suite of services meant to launch them into adulthood: counseling, employ...
for administering multiple social benefits, including family benefits, housing benefits, and pensions distributed by municipalities. UDK was thus to follow the joint public digitization strategy. Citizens must serve themselves via the web-portal borger.dk (citizen.dk) but can also call a designated ...
I don’t know if it’s even slightly realistic for her to try and get rehoused into a house or flat with outdoor space. Her GP and kids school have written letters of support but the whole thing seems like a big tangle. She’s a housing association tenant via he...
A youth and family social worker is usually a bachelor's level professional who works with children and their families to provide mentoring, counseling, assistance with concrete needs like housing or food and other services to improve the lives of their clients. Youth and family social workers wor...
One former benefits recipient, who asked not to be named, said that at least one caseworker had advised her to report income numbers that fell under the cap, whether they were accurate or not. The clear extensive need for subsidized and affordable housing in New Orl...
Nothing could happen to dampen my spirits because I knew the bus would get finished, I was turning 50, and my Department of Family and Children Services caseworker told me she thought she had a child for me who would be free for adoption. I was wrong. A week before Christmas I was in...
None of the women in New York had a consistent caseworker with whom they had contact, or even knew they had been assigned to a certain caseworker. These women described their experiences interacting with TANF as inconsistent, frustrating, and largely unhelpful because they had to share their ...