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How Social Welfare Policy / Human Services could be different



Foster children could receive Social Security, death / survivorship, or veterans benefits rather than the state

Baby bonds could be started for low-income children

Foster care could be less difficult for foster parents to prevent children from going to group homes

U.S. TANF (welfare) could have less strict eligibility / diversion requirements, time limits, and non-compliance sanctions to reach families in need

Low-income people could receive legal help with trained legal navigators

Families could have ways to heal from prison incarceration

Prison rehabilitation programs could reduce violence and crime

Domestic abuse survivors could access permanent housing more easily / faster

Services delivered could be audited at nonprofits / government contractors and feedback could be continuously collected from service recipients

Absent fathers could be supported to reenter children's lives

Funders could invest in nonprofit capacity building

Foster siblings could stay together

A rehabilitative model / cash support / schools / places to sleep could be used to help street children

Fathers could be engaged more in U.S. social policy

Systems of care could be used in human services

A single information system could be used for people seeking social / homeless / housing services

Meals could be delivered to the elderly, disabled, new mothers, sick, or mentally ill

Local governments could have one integrated data system and universal intake

The welfare cliff could be fixed in public benefits to not discourage work / marriage

Cash could be given through rental subsidies, taxes, or child savings accounts to aid poverty

Marriage disincentives in public benefit programs could change

Social services could be coordinated / mapped out across agencies and community organizations

Families could lead themselves out of poverty

U.S. TANF work requirements could be improved

An online account could distribute all public benefits

Citizens could receive a basic / guaranteed income (with restrictions or on a EBT card)

Asset limits for public benefits could be reformed to not discourage saving