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TANF, Poverty and Violence Against Native Women
Women are Sacred ConferenceOakland, California
What are WE What are WE going to do?going to do?
• What the big picture looks like
• Biggest challenges addressing poverty - for survivors, for advocates
• Scenario to raise issues and explore approaches
• Identify resources
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Challenges of Challenges of working with working with public benefitspublic benefits
• When we say “public benefits” -- what do you think of?
• What kinds of challenges do you face as an advocate?
• What happens for survivors?
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ScenariosScenariosDeana is 24 years old, with two young children (4 and 6 yrs), and left their abusive father about 8 mo ago. (He works in construction on/off, she doesn’t want contact with him). Deana got her GED after she had her son, took a couple of nursing classes at the community college, and is currently working as a waitress - uneven hours and uneven pay.
Deana thinks she’ll maybe make between $5,000 - 10,000 this year. She pieces together childcare (sister, mother, friends). She is currently living with her sister, but not really a great situation. She is often late with rent and utilities.
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QUESTIONSQUESTIONS
• What is Deana concerned about?
• Where is she feeling the most pressure?
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QUESTIONSQUESTIONS
• What might her hopes be?
• What personal resources can she drawn on?
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QUESTIONSQUESTIONS
• What public benefits might she or her children be eligible for?
• What would be the “benefit” to her or her children?
• What challenges would she likely face accessing these benefits?
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QUESTIONSQUESTIONS• How do we prepare to be
helpful to Deana?
• What do we need to understand -- as coalitions, as local advocates, as community partners?
• What will be the most hard for us?
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Resources Resources Online information about key low-income benefit programs•Links to Policy Manuals, Descriptive Information, and Applications for State Food Stamp, TANF, Child Care, Medicaid, and SCHIP Programs
– www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1414
ResourcesResources
• National Congress of American Indians – Welfare Reform/Employment
Training• http://www.ncai.org/Welfare-Reform-
Employment-Trai.46.0.html
04/12/23 PowerPoint slide layout by Red Wind Consulting, Inc. 10
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Resources Resources
• Economic Justice on a Shoestring, developed by the Women of Color Network
• Qweesta:– Building Native Communities: Financial Skills for
Families curriculum– Meeting the NEED: Native Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship Development Model
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Resources Resources VAWnet - Domestic Violence Public Policy &
Systems Advocacy• Special Collections which focus on
economic advocacy issues impacting domestic violence survivors– www.VAWnet.org