LIFETIME Parent Leaders host "Family Violence is Not an Option" in Washington D.C.

In January 2003, over 100,000 California families began to reach their five-year lifetime limit on welfare. In Alameda county,  65% of those families speak little or no English. As a result, LIFETIME started the Time-Limits campaign to prove that the California Department of Social Services has discriminated against many families on welfare.  Consequently, these families welfare timelimit "clocks" should be stopped. Time-Limits survey.

LIFETIME Parent Leaders and staff gather for "Stop Family Violence" week in Washington D.C.

In addition LIFETIME conducted a national briefing in Washington D.C. in March 2005 to report on the results of its Time Limits survey spefically relating CalWORKs recipients who suffer from domestic violence. Family Violence is Not an Option: Policy Brief