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Review Of Social Work Practice: Toward A Child, Family, School, Community Perspective, By Edith M. Freeman And Marianne Pennekamp, Cynthia D. Bisman
Review Of Social Work Practice: Toward A Child, Family, School, Community Perspective, By Edith M. Freeman And Marianne Pennekamp, Cynthia D. Bisman
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Illusions Of Change: Rethinking The Current Welfare Retrenchment, Sanford F. Schram
Illusions Of Change: Rethinking The Current Welfare Retrenchment, Sanford F. Schram
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Review Of State Work: Public Administration And Mass Intellectuality, By Stefano Harney, Sanford F. Schram
Review Of State Work: Public Administration And Mass Intellectuality, By Stefano Harney, Sanford F. Schram
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
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The Bottom Line: Employment And Barriers To Work Among Former Ssi Da&A Beneficiaries, Kevin Campbell, Jim Baumohl, Sharon R. Hunt
The Bottom Line: Employment And Barriers To Work Among Former Ssi Da&A Beneficiaries, Kevin Campbell, Jim Baumohl, Sharon R. Hunt
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for drug addicts and alcoholists (DA&A beneficiaries) ended in January 1997 without any special effort to create employment for those who lost benefits. Relying on data from a nine-site, two-year panel study of 1,764 former DA&A recipients and detailed semistructured interviews with subsamples in four sites, this paper examines employment outcomes and barriers to employment among 611 respondents who lost SSI and did not replace it with another form of publicly funded income assistance. Despite the tight labor market of the late 1990s, this group was plagued by widespread unemployment and sub-employment. At the …
Decisions To Appeal, Decisions To Approve: Requalification For Ssi By Former Da&A Beneficiaries, Richard Scott, Jim Baumohl
Decisions To Appeal, Decisions To Approve: Requalification For Ssi By Former Da&A Beneficiaries, Richard Scott, Jim Baumohl
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) benefits had the opportunity to appeal their termination during the six months prior to the end of the DA&A program in January 1997. In this study, we examined factors that affected transition from the DA&A program to continuing SSI benefits based on other qualifying impairments. We treated requalification for SSI as the outcome of two processes: a beneficiary's submission of a request for reconsideration and the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Disability Determination Services' efforts to document a qualifying impairment, culminating in a decision to approve or to deny the …
Drug Treatment Participation And Retention Rates Among Former Recipients Of Supplemental Security Income For Drug Addiction And Alcoholism, James A. Swartz, Kevin Campbell, Jim Baumohl, Peggy Tonkin
Drug Treatment Participation And Retention Rates Among Former Recipients Of Supplemental Security Income For Drug Addiction And Alcoholism, James A. Swartz, Kevin Campbell, Jim Baumohl, Peggy Tonkin
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
This study examined drug treatment participation and retention rates for a multisite sample of 1,586 former recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). Fewer than half of the sample were complying with the DA&A program treatment mandate at the time the program was terminated by federal legislation in January 1997. For all forms of treatment, both participation and retention rates declined steadily thereafter until fewer than 10% of the total sample reported being in a formal treatment two years after termination of the mandate. Survival analyses comparing treatment retention rates for DA&A beneficiaries with non-DA&A …
Drink, Drugs And Disability: An Introduction To The Controversy, Sharon R. Hunt, Jim Baumohl
Drink, Drugs And Disability: An Introduction To The Controversy, Sharon R. Hunt, Jim Baumohl
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
This paper reviews the history of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program within Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the controversies that dogged the years before its termination in 1996. The DA&A program began in 1972, and for reasons understood early on, it was susceptible to rapid growth and discrediting scandal. Through the mid-1980s, the program remained very small, mainly because of a conservative judicial climate that limited the ground for claiming substance abuse as a disabling impairment. Once the legal barriers were breached, SSI became an attractive welfare alternative for impoverished substance abusers and for local governments seeking to …
Now Invited To Testify: Former Beneficiaries Appraise The Ssi Drug Addiction And Alcoholism Program, Sharon R. Hunt, Jim Baumohl
Now Invited To Testify: Former Beneficiaries Appraise The Ssi Drug Addiction And Alcoholism Program, Sharon R. Hunt, Jim Baumohl
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
As part of the larger SSI Study, we conducted detailed semistructured interviews with 156 respondents in four sites. They spoke at length about matters of legislative concern during the reform and subsequent abolition of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program. Respondents were quite aware of the problems considered by Congress. Some acknowledged using SSI payments to buy alcohol and other drugs, and a few claimed to have squandered large retroactive payments. Most insisted that they spent their checks wisely, however, and discussed how they did so. With a remarkable degree of consensus, respondents favored the DA&A program's paternalistic features …
Substance Abuse And Welfare Policy At The New Century, Jim Baumohl, Richard Speiglman, James A. Swartz, Roland Stahl
Substance Abuse And Welfare Policy At The New Century, Jim Baumohl, Richard Speiglman, James A. Swartz, Roland Stahl
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
Drawing on findings from the SSI Study and other research, this paper takes up various policy questions fundamental to any welfare program for substance abusers. The paper considers the place of disability benefits in the U.S. system of categorical aid and the problems raised by substance abuse for the disability category. It discusses the desirable objectives of a welfare program for substance abusers and the various mechanisms by which they might be achieved. And finally, it considers how any new program might be positioned in the context of categorical aid and American federalism.
The Methodology Of The Multi-Site Study Of The Termination Of Supplemental Security Income Benefits For Drug Addicts And Alcoholics, James A. Swartz, Peggy Tonkin, Jim Baumohl
The Methodology Of The Multi-Site Study Of The Termination Of Supplemental Security Income Benefits For Drug Addicts And Alcoholics, James A. Swartz, Peggy Tonkin, Jim Baumohl
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative methodologies used in a nine-site, two-year study of the effects of terminating Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A). The quantitative component of the study involved a longitudinal survey that collected data on 1,744 former DA&A recipients, representing about one-fourth of the national population, and achieved an aggregate follow-up rate of 82%. Despite limitations in questionnaire design and implementation, the survey provided reasonably valid data in the following areas: demographics, employment/income, medical/psychiatric status, drug and alcohol use, legal involvement, family/social functioning, food and hunger, housing, and victimization. The qualitative component …