CFRA Family Strengthening Policy Brief: What Works: Family Strengthening and Economic Success
Policy Brief on Family Economic Success - CFRA has released
its second policy brief, “What
Works: Family Strengthening and Economic Success”. The brief
is a rich publication that provides information, tools, guidance and inspiration
so that family strengthening organizations can more effectively move their
families to work.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES…
Californians For Family Economic Self-Sufficiency (CFESS), a project of the National Economic Development and Law Center (NEDLC), is a statewide advocacy network committed to advancing policies and programs that allow California families to move out of poverty and toward economic self-sufficiency. CFESS has a wealth of resource information useful to family resource centers and family strengthening organizations, including a self-sufficiency calculator and research on economic self-sufficiency in California. http://www.nedlc.org/cfess
The Assets Policy Initiative of California has just
released the Local Asset Poverty Index (LAPI). The index is the first composition of data on county-level asset poverty. This is a remarkable tool for those comparing asset poverty to income poverty utilizing various county criteria. http://www.assetpolicy-ca.org/lapi.vp.html
National Assembly's Family Strengthening Policy Center, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has created an EITC Toolkit that will give limited income earners access to an important federal tax benefit that may be worth more than $4200. Clients and employees of family resource centers and family-strengthening organizations can utilize this antipoverty investment strategy as a means to financial sustainability. Download the EITC Toolkit [PDF format]
The Citigroup Office of Financial Education has released a Financial Education Curriculum
that is current, relevant and comprehensive. The goal of this curriculum is to help families make informed financial decision by providing a foundation of basic knowledge about financial services, saving, investing and credit. To access the curriculum or order a curriculum binder free of charge in English or Spanish go to http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/financialeducation/curriculum.
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