Comparing Mary Ann Moore's Negative Experience With Welfare And Human Service Organizations

After building knowledge in regards to Mary Ann Moore’s negative experience with welfare and human service organizations expressed in Deparle article (1994), it is evident that human service organizations continue to fail to facilitate and empower those in society who require assistance in meeting basic human needs. Evidently, change needs to surface in order to better assist individuals transition from welfare to work. Deparle mentions how there are programs such as Project Match which help those like Moore find employment (1997). However, research conducted by Herr and Wagner brings forth the truth of the small number of 36 percent of individuals able to find stable employment (Deparle, 1997). Thus raising the question of how can this country

create an effective number to increase stability in employment? In order to develop effective services, programs should collect adequate resources, achieve goals thorough activities, use measurements for services, address benefits, and evaluate the impact of services in the community (Kettner, Moroney, & Martin, 2012).
Deparle specifies Moore’s poor living conditions with her two daughters, while employed Moore is only able to afford unsafe housing of $100 a month from neighborhood addicts just to be able to rest on a pillow (1997); so what is wrong with this picture? It is clear to sight that there is not enough money being provided when transitioning to work causing no change to poverty. Personally, I believe that in order to assist human services organizations, the pay received employed should exceed what is received from a welfare check in order to reduce difficult boundaries between employers and employees created by monetary concerns and increase resilience to work.
In addition, program intervention and delivery should be community focused and involve collaboration, view their clients as individuals who are part of a larger social context, allow their staff to establish trusting, personal relationships with clients and maintain appropriate boundaries, and be well managed and funded. Moreover, taking into consideration the life of poor single mothers like Moore where welfare reform imposes additional limitations on poor women, often requiring them to accept first available jobs which are low paying and offer no benefits causing a decline in job stability and a return to welfare. Therefore, if the goal is to sustain economic self-sufficiency, welfare programs should include adequate wages and benefits specific for mothers such as health insurance, paid sick leave, and assistance in finding and paying for quality child care.