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The Illinois Families Study
is a six-year panel study of 1,362 families who are moving from welfare
to work in nine Illinois counties.
Mandated by the state legislature and directed by Northwestern University
social policy expert Dan
Lewis, the researchers are reporting annually to the General Assembly
on how these welfare recipients fared in their efforts to find and retain
jobs and reduce their dependency on public aid.
Annual reports to the state legislature and policy
briefs are now available on-line:
Conducted by the University Consortium
on Welfare Reform, the Illinois Families Study focuses on four key issues:
workforce participation, job retention and advancement, children's well-being,
and family stability. The investigators are supplementing annual survey
data on employment, income, parenting, child care, health, and domestic
violence with quarterly administrative data from state agencies about
the families' use of welfare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and social
services.
A qualitative aspect of the study, funded by
the Searle Fund, involves interviews with a subsample of 75 families to
learn more about the factors in their lives that enable or impede them
in the transition from public assistance to self-sufficiency.
Another component, in collaboration with
Northwestern's Institute
for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, is focusing on a
subsample of 500 children to determine what factors place children at
greater risk for child neglect and state intervention.
Also involved in the project are Northern
Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt
University, and the University of Chicago. The Metro Chicago Information
Center is conducting the surveys.
Funders:
In addition to Searle, support has been provided by the Joyce Foundation,
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Annie E. Casey
Foundation, the Polk Bros. Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, the
Illinois Higher Education Board, the National Institutes of Health, the
Administration for Children and Families, the U.S. Department of Education,
the National Institute of Justice, and the Illinois Department of Human
Services.
To Order
Reports,
Summaries, or Policy Briefs
Patricia Reese, Publications Director
Institute for Policy Research
2040 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-4100
Email: p-reese@northwestern.edu
For More Information:
Laura B. Amsden, Project Coordinator
Email: l-amsden@northwestern.edu
Dan A. Lewis, Principal Investigator
Email: dlewis@northwestern.edu