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The Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS) Program is an early component of Iowa's "human investment" strategy to assist AFDC
recipients in becoming self-sufficient. This strategy assumes that investing in welfare recipients is more likely to result in long-term self sufficiency —and to avoid returns to welfare receipt—than are alternative strategies, such as those that focus only on moving recipients into the workforce. FaDSS links long-term welfare recipients and those at risk of long-term dependency with a broad range of resources, including a Family Development Specialist, who support and guide families in preparing and implementing plans to reach their self-sufficiency goals.
The purpose of the evaluation was to determine the impact of FaDSS by analyzing differences between the treatment and control groups. It was
hypothesized that the FaDSS Program would have intermediate program impacts (i.e., positive changes in the experimental families' ability to
meet basic needs, competency, self-confidence, education, employment) as well as long-term program outcomes (i.e., positive changes in the
experimental families' economic self-sufficiency).
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