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Social Work

Hunger

CalFresh Program (SNAP California)
California Food Policy Advocates
California Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Congressional Hunger Center
Food assistance programs and measures of food security in the United States
Available at 2 SOUTH HV 696 F6 F66 2013
CalFresh
CalFresh is for people with low-income who meet federal income eligibility rules and want to add to their budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table.
Food Resource Action Center
Income volatility and food assistance in the United States
Available at 2 South HV 696 .F6 I525 2008
SNAP - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
U.S.D.A - Reports, Studies, and Statistics
Women, Infants, Children (WIC)

Homelessness

Corportation for Supportive Housing
From charity to equity : race, homelessness, and urban schools
Available at 3 NORTH LC5144.2 A85 2015
Homeless Information -California/U.S. HUD
Invisible nation: homeless families in America
Available at 2 South HV4505 S39 2016
Homelessness, housing, and mental illness
Available at 2 SOUTH HV 3006 A4 S383 2011
Homelessness Resource Center
HUD -Homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Otherwise homeless : vehicle living and the culture of homelessness
Available at 2 SOUTH HV 4505 W237 2014
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America
e-book
Sacramento Housing Alliance
Working with homeless and vulnerable people : basic skills and practices
Available at 2 SOUTH HV4493 S35 2015

General Reference Sources

Comprehensive handbook of social work and social welfare
Available at 2 NORTH Reference HV 40 C635 2008
Encyclopedia of social welfare history in North America
Available at 2 NORTH Reference HV 12 E497 2005
Social welfare : policies, perspectives and challenges
Available at 2 SOUTH HV 31 S7185 2014

Poverty

American children in chronic poverty: complex risks, benefit-cost analyses, and untangling the knot
Available at 2 SOUTH HV741 L37 2013
Cash Aid: CA Dept. of Social Services (various programs)
The American way of poverty : how the other half still lives
Available at 2 SOUTH HC 110 P6 A54 2013
Center for Poverty Research: UCD
Children's Defense Fund: Ending Child Poverty
Inequality in America : race, poverty, and fulfilling democracy's promise
It's not like I'm poor : how working families make ends meet in a post-welfare world
Available at 2 SOUTH HD 8072.5 H35 2015
Poverty in America: A Handbook
e-book
Poverty in California: Public Policy Institute of California
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: California
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

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