Campaigns & Events - Mamas on the Move!!

Through leadership development, advocacy training, and political education, LIFETIME works with student parents to organize for public policies that help parents graduate off welfare — and out of poverty — for good.
Click here for calendar of upcoming events and campaigns.

  
 


Melissa Garcia, a TANF student at California State University Chico testifies about her experience under welfare reform at a recent town hall meeting on TANF reauthorization. The townhall was attended by Congressman Wally Herger, chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources, as well as over 200 of his constituents. To read more about the townhall meeting on TANF reauthorization, click here.


  
 

Education Works! Through the Education Works! campaign, LIFETIME is working to expand educational opportunities for low-income parents under the upcoming reauthorization of the TANF in 2002. Learn how the organization is working to make poverty reduction a policy goal in this next round of welfare reform.

 

The Student Parent Scholar Campaign
Student activists in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties successfully advocate for the creation of county scholarship funds to help CalWORKs and other low-income parents earn college degrees.
  CalWORKs Transportation Access and Advocacy Coalition
  Past Campaigns and Successes