The department shall develop a research design to ensure a thorough evaluation of the direct and indirect effects of the CalWORKs program. Effects shall include, but not be limited to, employment, earnings, self-sufficiency, child care, child support, child well-being, family structure, and impacts on local government. Child well-being shall include entries into foster care, at-risk births, school achievement, child abuse reports, and rates of child poverty.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 11520.3
Evaluation of CalWORKs Program Implementation
Known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act
The act spans §§ 11200 to 11526.5 (396 sections).
Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 270, Sec. 158
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