Effective Practices for Single Parents & Displaced Homemakers
Bakersfield College – Management Counseling for CalWORKs
Title: Case Management Counseling for CalWORKs
College: Bakersfield College
Contact:
Jasmine Quinn,
CalWORK’s Coordinator, Career Development and Workforce Preparation
Programs.
281-559-9155
Description:
The goal of the
program is to provide a learning environment that fosters respect
for individuals and ideas and opportunities to develop the skills,
knowledge, and attitudes required to be competent, self-sufficient,
and participating citizens of the world. This program promotes
student self-reliance by offering education and training that leads
to employment. A required 32 hours per week combines classes with
work-study, work-study programs that may be exempt from cash aid,
work experience or on-the-job training. Financial assistance is
offered to qualified recipients. College CalWORKs students are also
provided counseling in a supportive and informative environment that
encourages student success, and they are provided with confidential
liaison and advocacy between student, the college, the Department of
Human Services, and other agencies.
The staff consists of the CalWORK’s Coordinator, who is based out of
the Career Development Office. There is also a 19-hour student
assistant who is a CalWORK’s student. A database of all CalWORKs
students is maintained so that the progress of each student can be
followed
The college has prepared a well-written and easily understood flyer
that is widely distributed to promote the program through an annual
open house, through the Department of Human Services, and at County
Fair programs.
Individual success stories attest to the effectiveness of the
program. The staff feels that the faster you can effectively
mainstream the CalWORK’s participants, the more successful you are
at moving them off public assistance and into self-supporting jobs.