Community-Based Participatory Research
Partnering directly with women in welfare transition programs and other community members to reduce health disparities.
Women receiving welfare not only have the highest poverty rate in the nation, they also have rates of depression, anxiety, and physical health problems that are two to five times higher than those found in the general U.S. population or among other low-income women.
Although these health disparities are well documented and chronic health problems limit these women’s ability to get and maintain employment, they are typically not being addressed by welfare-to-work programs.
The goal of this research, which is supported by a $1.4 million grant from
the National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov, is to reduce these health
disparities by directly involving women on the Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families (TANF) http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/
program to revise the current tools used to screen for depression, stress
and other chronic health conditions, and by providing them Medicaid education
and training and routine access to a public health nurse.
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