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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
October 2000

The Workforce Investment Act: The Law and its Implications for Battered Women and Their Advocates

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This paper provides basic information about the WIA and how it can provide battered women and others with job training and related services so they can get jobs that pay enough to live on. The paper discusses key implementation issues to survivors.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
October 2000

Welfare, Poverty, and Abused Women: New Research and its Implications

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This summary of studies on domestic violence and TANF recipients explores their physical and mental health and work experience. It focuses on interference from their partners, barriers to work, the Family Violence Option, and the Child Support Exemption.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
January 2000

Strategies to Expand Battered Women's Economic Opportunities

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This document is an overview of strategies implemented to increase economic opportunities for low-income women and families. Organizing efforts, job training and opportunity development, creating assets, and governmental responses are described.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
January 1999

New Challenges for the Battered Women's Movement: Building Collaborations and Improving Public Policy for Poor Women

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This paper advocates the adoption of an agenda that recognizes the importance of safety, justice and economic resources for women and their families and urges that advocates pay particular attention to the concerns and interests of poor women.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
January 1998

Building Opportunities for Battered Women's Safety and Self-Sufficiency

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This practice paper provides background information about domestic violence and describes options battered women need available to them in order to be safe and more economically independent.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
January 1998

Family Violence Protocol Development for TANF and Child Support Agencies

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This paper provides detailed guidance on developing family violence protocols within welfare settings. It is written to assist domestic violence advocates and state administrators implementing PRWORA
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
December 1997

Poverty, Welfare and Battered Women: What Does the Research Tell Us?

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The paper explores what we know and don't know about the prevalence of dv among poor women and women receiving welfare; the connections that can be drawn between welfare and dv; and the effects of dv on women receiving welfare benefits.
Materials
  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
January 1997

The New Welfare Law: State Implementation and Use of the Family Violence Option

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This paper explores the impact of implementing the U.S. federal welfare law, PRWORA of 1996. It looks at how the use of the FVO and the federal block grant program, TANF, might effect battered women and their children.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
October 1996

The New Welfare Law: Implications for Battered Women, Introduction to the Law

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Provides basic introduction to the U.S. federal welfare law, PRWORA of 1996 - provides information about this "welfare law" and its potential effects on battered women and their children.
Materials
  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
June 0004

Economic Advocacy Capacity Building: Iowa's Experience and Lessons Learned

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The main article outlines the steps and stages of ICADV's housing and financial advocacy work from 1997 until the present. Main activities are covered and lessons learned are highlighted.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
July 0001

Welfare-to-Work Programs Create Options for Battered Women

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Explores how welfare-to-work programs can help battered women, highlighting programs that provide specialized services to battered women. Also included is a list of Internet resources designed to increase understanding of this complex system.
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  • General Material

Providing Financial Education Services to Domestic Violence Survivors

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This brief paper discusses the importance of financial education programs, and specific considerations when working with domestic violence survivors.