Frank Ridzi

Biographic Data

ID376505
NAMEFrank Ridzi
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMERidzi
SIGNATURERIDZI F
AFFILIATIONSLe Moyne College
ORCID0009-0002-5915-4023
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State

    Frank RidziCHAPTERPeople at Work2020

    11. Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Programs was published in People at Work on page 223.

  • Parenting in transition

    Neda Moinolmolki, Frank Ridzi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnic & Cultural…2020Cited by: 2References: 3

    With the exception of the last three fiscal years, there has been a consistent influx of refugees being resettled to the U.S. during the last 20 years from Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Bhutan. Although there is existing literature examining the obstacles that recently resettled refugee families face, the ways in which these obstacles influence parenting has not been widely studied. For organizations to best serve these populatio…

  • The Imagination Library Program and Kindergarten Readiness

    Open AccessFrank Ridzi, Monica R Sylvia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Social Science2016

    Literature suggests that reading to children can have a significant impact on their early literacy development and long-term school performance. We examine whether consistent participation (i.e., three or more years) in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL), a book distribution program that provides one book per month to children ages birth through five, is associated with higher kindergarten readiness. This study examines 2,731 incoming kind…

  • Managing Expectations When Measuring Philanthropic Impact

    Open AccessFrank RidziARTICLEThe Foundation Review2013References: 7

    In order to achieve more targeted community change than possible in conventional grantmaking, foundations have developed a portfolio of activities ranging from capacity building to venture and catalytic philanthropy

  • Contingent Government Workers and Labor Solidarity

    Open AccessFrank RidziARTICLEQualitative Sociology2007Cited by: 1References: 20

  • It's Great When People Don't Even Have Their Welfare Cases Opened

    Open AccessFrank Ridzi, A S LondonARTICLEReview of Policy Research2006Cited by: 2References: 20

    The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) encouraged states to reduce welfare caseloads. Caseload reduction can be accomplished by promoting exit for work, marriage, or other private means of support and by diverting new applicants. Most research on caseload decline has focused on welfare-to-work outcomes; less is known about processes of diversion. This study employs administrative records and ethnographic…

  • Making Tanf Work

    Frank RidziARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2004Cited by: 4

    While research suggests that staff resistance to change and intentional subversion have hampered prior welfare reform efforts, this does not appear to be the case for the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). This paper draws on data from a study of East County, New York to explicate the mechanisms that have enabled the unprecedented transformation in local implementation practice in this case. Interviews,…