Faith, hope & jobs : welfare-to-work in Los Angeles /

Faith, hope & jobs : welfare-to-work in Los Angeles /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Monsma, Stephen V., 1936-
Imprint:	Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Religion and politics series Religion and politics series (Georgetown University)
Subject:	Welfare recipients -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles. Public welfare -- Contracting out -- California -- Los Angeles. Social service -- Contracting out -- California -- Los Angeles. Public-private sector cooperation -- California -- Los Angeles. Church charities -- California -- Los Angeles. Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- California -- Los Angeles. Church charities. Evaluation research (Social action programs) Public-private sector cooperation. Public welfare -- Contracting out. Social service -- Contracting out. Welfare recipients -- Employment. California -- Los Angeles. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213422

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Varying Form of Title:	Faith, hope and jobs
Other authors / contributors:	Soper, J. Christopher.
ISBN:	9781435627369 1435627369 1589011112 1589011104 9781589011113 9781589011106 9781589013193 1589013190 1589011112 9781589011113
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation ?A must-read for scholars, lay audiences, and anyone seriously concerned about contemporary social problems like employment in urban America. Monsma and Soper have produced a solid piece of research on a topic long-neglected by social scientists.?Byron Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Religious Inquiry Across the Disciplines, Baylor University, and senior fellow, Religion and Civil Society Program, The Witherspoon Institute.
Other form:	Print version: Monsma, Stephen V., 1936- Faith, hope & jobs. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2006
Standard no.:	9781589011113

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Summary:	<p>A front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, including faith-based social service organizations. In the wake of President Bush's faith-based initiative, many are still wondering about the effectiveness of these faith-based organizations in providing services to those in need, and whether they provide better outcomes than more traditional government, secular nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. In "Faith, Hope, and Jobs," Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper study the effectiveness of 17 different welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County -- a county in which the U.S. government spends 14% of its "entire" welfare budget -- and offer groundbreaking insight into understanding what works and what doesn't. <p>Monsma and Soper examine client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. The study reveals that the clients of the more explicitly faith-based programs did best in gaining in social capital and were highly positive in evaluating the religious components of their programs. For-profit programs tended to do the best in terms of their clients finding employment. Overall, the religiously active respondents tended to experience better outcomes than those who were not religiously active but surprisingly, the religiously active and non-active tended to do equally well in faith-based programs.<p> "Faith, Hope, and Jobs" concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781435627369 1435627369 1589011112 1589011104 9781589011113 9781589011106 9781589013193 1589013190