Los Angeles Country’s GAIN Sanction Home Visit Outreach (GSHVO) project seeks to reduce sanctions and increase the work participation rate. As the name suggests, it provides home visiting and other forms of outreach to GAIN (welfare to work) participants who are at risk of being sanctioned or who are already sanctioned. The outreach establishes contact and helps participants resolve their barriers to participation. Since GSHVO started in 2005, sanctions in LA County have declined in number and as a share of total GAIN participants.
