POPVOX Foundation Adds Bi-Weekly Case Notes Blog to Casework Navigator Features

Today, POPVOX Foundation’s Casework Navigator team announced a new feature of the program: the Case Notes blog! Look out for new posts focusing on casework topics and case studies every other week.

The blog kicked off with two posts:

Canaries in the Coal Mine: Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis

A retrospective tapping into Katherine Long’s experience handling casework through the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, and what caseworkers can expect in periods of economic downturn.

Casework: What We Do and Don’t Know

One of the most common questions we hear from casework teams is “what’s normal?” Caseloads, caseworkers per office, casework career paths, big-picture impact on legislation and constituents—and the short answer is that we have no idea. We lay out our wish list for future research, and a glimpse at the state of current information (spoiler: the casework articles from the 1970s are still mostly accurate).