FAML 430 4 EXAM REPORTED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

FAML 430 4 EXAM REPORTED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS Why is their increasing pressure on non-profit organizations to improve and expand their services? - Answer-o They are not satisfied with their status of achievements (they could do better, they could help more people) o The role of government is shrinking in providing human services and making financial grants to nonprofits, so nonprofits have to carry greater responsibilities, to operate more effectively, and to manage most efficiently. What is the purpose of the Mission of a non-profit? - Answer-o Their defined missions control and focus everything nonprofit organizations do. o The mission concentrates their responsibilities, functions, and services. o It determines what they include and what they exclude. o It establishes the qualifications of who will comprise their constituencies, their volunteer governing board, their professional staffs. comprehensive funding - Answer-embracing several types of funding from various sources, to make their services possible How do effective non-profits improve their impact and improve their services? - Answer-o Their openness and readiness to review what they do stems not only from their creativity but from the diverse membership of the boards and committees that leading organizations have carefully developed. o The differences within the boards and committees compel a continuing assessment of what the organizations are and do. They engender flexibility in responding to changing circumstances and recasting services, and in initiating change and replacing what new needs and knowledge have shown to be outmoded. o Nonprofits plan thoroughly before they approve expenditures for new and untried services, to maximize the likelihood of success and minimize the possibility of failure What role do volunteers play in the operation of the organization? - Answer-o deliberate and develop the organization's decisions and actions o determine their policies, wisely and responsibly administer them, resolve the major issues that confront them, and effectively implement planned activities. o The ablest volunteers insist on having outstanding professional staffs; the staffs make certain that they have the most capable volunteer leaders 5 best practices for a non-profit. - Answer-o Be mission driven and appropriately focused in programs and services o Develop a strong and trained volunteer base o Establish vision and a clear direction through effective and regular planning at all levels o Implement programs with appropriate safeguards, legal assurances, and ethical practice o Collaborate with other organizations to leverage resources, fill gaps, and extend services preventive family agencies - Answer-reducing risk and building protective factors Parks, recreation, education supportive family agencies - Answer-assist and support parents in their role as caregivers Family and child services, economic assistance, family preservation, child health and welfare, referrals, counseling, senior citizens, protective care, childcare, foster care rehabilitative family agencies - Answer-To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education Correction, mental health, special needs Which major legislative act initiated the modern welfare state in the US? - Answer-Social Security Act of 1935 and the New deal President Roosevelt The great Depression programs created with this social security act - Answer-Social security Unemployment insurance Aid to dependent children President Lyndon B. Johnson expanded the US welfare system in his war on - Answer-poverty war on poverty aspects - Answer-· Head Start (1965) · Food Stamp Act (1964) - SNAP · Medicaid (1965) · Medicare (1965) · National School lunch Program (1966) · Supplemental Security income (1972) · WIC - Women's Infant and Children (1975) · Earned Income Tax Credit (1975) What legislation established the Cooperative Extension service? - Answer-Smith-Lever Act of 1914 extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. head start - Answer-President Johnson 1965 provides early education assistance to children from low-income families, is one program of this type. food stamps - Answer-President Johnson 1964 provides food coupons for low-income families and individuals. aid to dependents - Answer-President Roosevelt 1935 provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income. medicaid - Answer-President Johnson 1965 medical care program explicitly providing health care to those with low income and assets and hence is directly aimed at helping poor families. failed work-based welfare program - Answer-President Bush 1980 add mandatory work programs to the AFDC program. The bill passed, but the implementation of the program never made work mandatory and was widely considered to be a failure. TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) - Answer-President Clinton 1996 broad-purpose block grant to the states that helps fund a wide range of benefits, services, and activities to address the effects of, and root causes of, child poverty and economic disadvantage. medicare - Answer-President Johnson 1965 health program for older individuals; it is a social insurance program; Congress has made all individuals 65 or older eligible even if they have not worked for 10 years in the Social Security system. social security - Answer-President Johnson 1965 United States provides protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, death, or disability.