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.
LIFETIME Parent Leaders at Convention
in South Carolina.
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.
