Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
32 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
absolute poverty |
a system whereby government determines an objective income level needed to survive |
|
|
Poverty Line/Poverty threshold |
determines who is poor |
|
|
Thrifty food plan |
outlined a nutritionally adequate diet for families under economic constraints but might not be adequate on a longterm basis for optimum nutrition and health |
|
|
poverty guidelines |
represent different measures that are used to determine financial eligibility for various federal programs - they do not differentiate for age like the poverty threshold |
|
|
unemployment insurance |
snures that unemployed workers receive minimal cash assistance, allowing them to meet basic needs such as housing, food, and clothing it also provides cash assistance during periods of high employment which helps stabilize the economy |
|
|
workers compensation |
provides income to meet basic needs for workers who have lost jobs and to stabilize the economy by encouraging spending |
|
|
Supplemental nutrition assistance program |
established to address hunger in the US by helping low income people to purchase nutritionally adquate food |
|
|
public housing |
subsidized rental housing may be available to families, adults, and people with disabilities who cannot afford to pay full rental costs in the private market |
|
|
Tenant based housing assistance program |
this program has the same purpose as the public housing program: to provide low income people with decent safe and affordable places to live instead of providing an actual apartment or home, the housing choice program uses a voucher system that permits eligible families to choose privately owned houses or apartments that meet program requirements and have reasonable rent that will be subsidized Tenant based housing assistance program |
|
|
Supplemental Security Income |
states had a patchwork of programs that provided assistance to people with limited or no income who were elderly or blind or had other disabilities |
|
|
general assistance |
provided to assist poor individuals and families who do not qualify for or are waiting approval fro federal programs such as SSI and TANF |
|
|
childwelfare system |
a group of services designed to promote the well being of children by ensuring safety, achieving permenancy, and strenghtening families to care for their children successfully |
|
|
Child abuse prevention and treatment act |
established minimum definitions that serve as a baseline for intervention - also provided states with federal funds to develop reporting systems for investigation of abuse and neglect
p.373 |
|
|
Juvenile Delinquency & Prevention Act |
2002 reauthorization requires state sto develop and implement strategies to comply with 4 core protections for juveniles as a condition for receiving grants under the act -reduction of the number of juvenile minority group members -seperation of juveniles from adult offenders -removal of juveniles from adult jails -deinstitutionalization of juveniles who are status offenders p.374 |
|
|
Indian Child Welfare Act |
Between 1969 and 1974 approximately 35% of native american children were in foster homes and institutions - 85% were placed in non indian homes -a number of indian tribes worked together to convince congress to pass the indian child welfare act which mandates that active efforts be made to ensure that native american children remain with their families and it empowers tribes and tribal courts to oversee decision making regarding native american children p.367 |
|
|
relative poverty |
influenced heavily by societal standards that determine a threshold of income that allows people to afford what is generally considered to be an adequate standard of living at a given time in a society ex: housing considered to be adequate by US standards is different from housing considered to be adequate in developing countries |
|
|
universal programs |
provided to eligible citizens regardless of income ex: unemployment insurance and OASDI |
|
|
old age survivors and disabilities insurance |
to protect workers and their families from loss of income due to retirement, disability, or death through monthly checks determined by age payment of payroll taxes and disability |
|
|
selective programs |
typically means tested and designed for people in poverty ex: TANF,SNAP, non cash programs for low income families |
|
|
Non Cash programs to assist low income families |
a number of other programs help low income families meet basic survival needs without providing direct cash assistance. These programs include SNAP, WIC, public housing, and tenant based housing assistance program |
|
|
The supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP |
established to address hunger in US by helping low income people to purchase nutritionally adequate food |
|
|
earned income tax credit |
enacted in 1975 in order to decrease the impact of medicare and SS taxes that are deducted from the wages earned by low and moderate income families with children goal is to encourage people to work and to assist them in paying for expenses incurred because of work |
|
|
Title IV-B the child welfare services program of social security act |
established the protection of children as a focus of public social service provides grants to states for case management and prevention |
|
|
Title XX of the social security act |
provides block grants for social services to states |
|
|
Title IV-E of the SS act |
provides reimbursement for a portion of the states costs for foster care and adoption |
|
|
Roper v simmons |
abolished the death penalty for juvenile criminal |
|
|
Family Preservation and support services |
enacted as part of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1993 encourage the development of cohesive community based family preservation and support strategies that involve collaboration between child protection and child welfare workers and other service provides to implement family centered interventions |
|
|
Adoption assistance and child welfare act |
established family preservation as a major goal of the child welfare system before this law was enacted extensive research had documented the impermanence of foster placement focused on family saving instead of child saving |
|
|
multi ethnic placement act |
removes barriers to permenency for children in the child protective system eliminate discrimination based on race color or national origin of the child and propsective parent to shorten the time that children wait to be adopted to facilitate the recruitment and retention of adoptive and foster care parents who can meet the distinctive needs of children awaiting placement |
|
|
Adoption and Safe Families Act |
amended the adoption assistance and child welfare act of 1980 made reunification the primary goal for children who were removed from their homes mandated that reasonable efforts be made to reunite the child and family and it placed an 18 month time limit on foster care before termination of parent rights was initiated |
|
|
concurrent planning |
provides states with the option of working on an alternative plan for the child even while it is attempting reunification |
|
|
Child support enforcement program |
oversees child support enforcement and includes services such as establishing paternity locating noncustodial parents establishing child support obligations collecting child support for families |
