Partners

The West Coast Poverty Center, housed at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, is a multi-disciplinary venture involving active collaboration among the U.W. School of Social Work, the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, and the departments of Economics, Sociology, and Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Graduate Division. The Center receives substantial support from its UW partners in the form of space and administrative support; release time for the Principal Investigator and Senior Faculty Affiliates; salary and benefits for Research Assistants; and tuition for Dissertation Fellows. The Center also receives communications assistance from the NIH-sponsored Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.

Core funding for the Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). ASPE is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis.