IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/evarev/v27y2003i6p681-706.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Potential Barriers to Work for Substance-Abusing Women on Welfare

Author

Listed:
  • Marjorie A. Gutman
  • James Mckay
  • Robert D. Ketterlinus
  • A. Thomas Mclellan

Abstract

Aim: To assess the prevalence and relationship to later employment of potential barriers to work for substance-abusing women on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) enrolled in a multiservice welfare-to-work program. Design: A field study with repeated measures and intentto-treat sampling. Intervention: The CASAWORKS for Families (CWF) was delivered in 11 sites in nine states across the nation and featured integration of substance-abuse treatment and employment and work readiness services. Measurement: The Addiction Severity Index, supplemented with subject-appropriate questions. Sample: A total of 366 CWF women who completed interviews at program enrollment, and at 6 and 12 months later. Findings: Substance-abusing women on TANF in the CWF program exhibited multiple potential barriers to work at enrollment, averaging 6 out of 14 potential barriers assessed. They reported significantly more obstacles than a general welfare sample of women fromthe same locales. Fewsingle barriers were significantly related to employment at 12 months. However, the total number of potential barriers to work experienced, particularly at 6 months, was related to employment at 12 months.

Suggested Citation

  • Marjorie A. Gutman & James Mckay & Robert D. Ketterlinus & A. Thomas Mclellan, 2003. "Potential Barriers to Work for Substance-Abusing Women on Welfare," Evaluation Review, , vol. 27(6), pages 681-706, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:27:y:2003:i:6:p:681-706
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X03259030
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0193841X03259030
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0193841X03259030?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Grant, B.F. & Dawson, D.A., 1996. "Alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence among welfare recipients," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 86(10), pages 1450-1454.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. repec:mpr:mprres:1962 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Chad Cotti & John Gordanier & Orgul Ozturk, 2016. "Eat (and Drink) Better Tonight: Food Stamp Benefit Timing and Drunk Driving Fatalities," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 2(4), pages 511-534, Fall.
    3. Marjorie A. Gutman & Robert D. Ketterlinus & A. Thomas Mclellan, 2003. "Characteristics of Substanceabusing Women on Welfare," Evaluation Review, , vol. 27(6), pages 597-628, December.
    4. Brett Watson & Mouhcine Guettabi & Matthew Reimer, 2020. "Universal Cash and Crime," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 102(4), pages 678-689, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:27:y:2003:i:6:p:681-706. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.