"She Even Walked the Dog": The Roles of Relational Context and Goal-Setting in a Welfare to Work Program

Authors

Lynne A. Kellner, Fitchburg State CollegeFollow
David Haddad, Fitchburg State CollegeFollow
Ann G. Forcier, Fitchsburg State College

Abstract

This report summarizes an evaluation of the effectiveness of a welfare-to-work program that is operated by the Montachusett Opportunity Council (MOC) in Central Massachusetts. The study looks at how effective the program was in helping clients achieve goals towards self-sufficiency and tries to understand the particulars of the trusting relationships between staff and clients that provided the base from which they worked to address multiple concerns impeding family financial self-sufficiency.

Keywords

qualitative research

Acknowledgements

This project is a product of the Community Partnership Outreach Center at Fitchburg State College, which was funded through a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Publication Date

9-1-2001

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2001.1998

Recommended APA Citation

Kellner, L. A., Haddad, D., & Forcier, A. G. (2001). "She Even Walked the Dog": The Roles of Relational Context and Goal-Setting in a Welfare to Work Program. The Qualitative Report, 6(3), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2001.1998