The CalWORKs Housing Support Program (HSP) was established in 2014 with the aim of promoting housing stability for families in the CalWORKs program who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

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Joy Perrin had been living in a van with her two children for several months when she walked into a welfare office in 2018. She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney ...

Some 1,200 impoverished Marin families, including 2,000 children, would lose cash assistance and job training if the CalWorks program is scrapped as recommended in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revised ...

The centerpiece of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state budget proposals is the wholesale elimination of the CalWORKS program, the state’s welfare-to-work program begun in 1997. Over 1.4 ...

A handful of participants in the CalWORKs program that helps families pull out of poverty, were applauded recently at a “Champions” celebration in Escondido. The event highlighted the hard work and ...

Public health officials say the outbreaks of measles and whooping cough over the past year put a spotlight on the need to ensure as many children as possible get their immunizations. That effort is ...

Raising twins as a working single mother became a bigger challenge for Gente Tesfai when she suffered a knee injury that required major surgery, leaving her unable to return to work. That’s when she ...

The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program stands as a vital resource for families and ...

The California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program serves as a critical lifeline for many families across the state. As the state-level counterpart to the federal Temporary ...

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