Center for Research on Self-Sufficiency (CROSS) is a research center within the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. CROSS is committed to studying the process of transformation as it relates to reaching various success outcomes associated with self-sufficiency and stability for low-income individuals and families. A decade of research evidence on psychological self-sufficiency (PSS), a psychological empowerment process of switching from perceived barriers to hope that leads to economic self-sufficiency (ESS) outcomes in workforce development, serves as the anchoring theoretical framework. In order to promote capacity building of discouraged / disconnected workers, community-based human service organizations, funders, and government and business organizations, further research and evaluation will be conducted to advance the work of PSS. CROSS will also seek application of PSS to such areas as health promotion, adult literacy and education, ex-offender reentry, homelessness / public housing, youth development and violence prevention, social enterprise development, and financial capability and asset development.