Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Gender of Head of Household Disproportionate Share of CalWORKs Families Had Female Heads of Household. As shown in Figure   14 , almost 90   percent of CalWORKs heads of household were women in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

Comparing CalWORKs Take-Up Rates Across Demographic Groups

Feb 14, 2023 - Notably, however, families headed by a single mother are much more likely to be CalWORKs ‑eligible than those headed by a single father despite these families having similar poverty rates. In reviewing the data, this appears to be because families headed by single mothers are about twice as likely to report zero outside income as those headed by single fathers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4678

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Additionally, some counties note that child welfare staff and/or staff of partner organizations already use MI or similar models and have achieved positive results, making MI the most straight forward to implement of the state ’s ten selected options.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

Dec 8, 2020 - Some cases exit because the head of household forgets to submit their redetermination or makes an error on the paperwork, and many of these families successfully re ‑file the next month. Executive Order N ‑28 ‑20 suspended CalWORKs redeterminations for the months of March, April, and May.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4306