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Direct linkTim Barshinger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Keystone Education Yields Success (KEYS) program is a welfare-to-work program in Pennsylvania meant to promote financial independence through education. Across the community colleges in the state of Pennsylvania, the KEYS program has often allowed financially disadvantaged students to succeed on par with - and often surpass - their non-KEYS…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedPrins, Esther; Gungor, Ramazan – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
This article examines the consequences of two concurrent policy changes for family literacy programs in Pennsylvania: (1) the transition from federal (Even Start) to state funding and (2) the elimination of adult education as a work activity for welfare recipients over 22 years of age. Using qualitative data from 10 family literacy programs, the…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Welfare Recipients, Public Policy, Family Programs
Download full textBloom, Dan – MDRC, 2010
The budget for the U.S. Department of Labor for Fiscal Year 2010 includes a total of $45 million to support and study transitional jobs. This paper describes the origins of the transitional jobs models that are operating today, reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of this approach and other subsidized employment models, and offers some…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Welfare Services, Supported Employment, Employment Programs
Dicker, Sheryl – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Babies and young children in the child welfare system have a high prevalence for physical, cognitive, and social-emotional delays--and often don't have access to the services and supports that could make all the difference. This is the book that will help professionals go beyond abuse prevention and ensure comprehensive healthy development of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Infants
Prins, Esther; Gungor, Ramazan – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2008
Due to federal budget cuts in 2005-06, 11 family literacy programs in Pennsylvania switched from federal Even Start to state (Act 143) funding. Simultaneously, state welfare requirements stipulated that in most circumstances adult education is not an allowable work activity for welfare recipients over age 20. This study examined how these policy…
Descriptors: State Standards, Geographic Location, Student Recruitment, Family Literacy
Metraux, Stephen; Caplan, Joel M.; Klugman, Dutch; Hadley, Trevor R. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study assesses the extent of residential segregation among 15,246 people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities and receiving Medicaid (MA) in Philadelphia, and an identically sized group of MA recipients serving as matched controls. Results indicate that overall levels of residential segregation among this group were modest at their most…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mental Disorders, Residential Patterns, Ghettos
