END POVERTY, NOT WELFARE!
 
PARENT LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
 
TANF
 
STATE BUDGET
 
EDUCATION WORKS!
 
Become a LIFETIME Voter
 
PAST CAMPAIGNS AND SUCCESSES
 
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
 
LIFETIME RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
 
     
 
Past Campaigns and Successes

 
 

Become a LIFETIME Voter Project 2008 - LIFETIME parents and staff hit the streets and the phones to make sure that all our families had the opportunity to participate in this historic election.

LIFETIME Parent Leaders at Convention in South Carolina.

Education as a welfare-to-work activity - LIFETIME served as a resource to Assembly member Dion Aroner to have higher education and training count as a welfare-to-work activity.

 
 
  Home work and study time as a work activity - Successfully advocated for homework and study time to be counted as an allowable work activity in several Bay Area counties.
 

Family Resource Centers on Campus - The Dr. Betty Shabazz Family Center at City College of San Francisco and the Stay-in-School Family Center at San Francisco State University are student-run family resource centers that give low-income student-parents the support they need to stay in school—despite welfare reform.

 

 

CalWORKs Parent Advisory Committee - Student-parents in Alameda and Santa Clara counties meet monthly with county officials to develop policies to help CalWORKs parents gain access to higher education & high wage jobs.