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Download full textRiccio, James A. – 1999
This report describes the Jobs-Plus approach, an attempt to transform low-work, high-welfare public housing developments into high-work, low-welfare communities. It highlights the rationale of the approach, the way the demonstration has been set up to test the approach in the field, and what has been accomplished so far by the seven cities chosen…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Connecticut State Dept. of Income Maintenance, Hartford. – 1992
The Job Connection, which meets the requirements stipulated in the Family Support Act of 1988, is structured to ensure that needy families with children obtain the education, training, and employment needed to help them avoid long-term welfare dependence. The Job Connection program is administered through Connecticut's Department of Income…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Employment Services
Ohio State Dept. of Human Services, Columbus. – 1998
This document highlights 101 partnerships developed as part of Ohio's welfare reform initiative, Ohio Works First (OWF). Section 1 deals with communication strategies: a new lexicon; interagency information exchange and confidentiality issues; intake, referral, and case management tools; and cross-agency communications. Section 2 describes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Institute of Medicine (NAS), Washington, DC. – 1998
In 1997, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families launched the Frontiers of Research on Children, Youth, and Families Initiative to highlight recent policy-relevant research on children, youth, and families conducted by young and mid-career researchers. The initiative sought to encourage more sustained interactions between these researchers and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Black Youth
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Adult Extended Learning Services. – 1988
In the Family Employability Development Plan (FEDP) process, a facilitator works with the family to help its members acquire the skills to develop their own plan for economic independence. The facilitator helps coordinate the interagency effort and helps the family become empowered to carry out its own plan. Carried out as a pilot project in 13…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Potential, Family Programs
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1978
The activities presented in this Work Incentive (WIN) program report are those designed to assist the movement of employable Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients from welfare to work and economic independence. The first of seven sections presents statistics on WIN programs, including (1) intake, (2) individuals employed, (3)…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Fuller, Bruce; Kipnis, Fran; Siegel, Patricia – 1999
Rising maternal employment, welfare reform, and increased preschool enrollment contribute to accelerating family demand for child care in California, and federal and state governments have responded by doubling support for child care and preschool programs between 1996 and 1999. However, there is little information available on how child care…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Children, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Fein, David J.; Beecroft, Eric; Long, David A.; Catalfamo, Andree Rose – 2000
Riverside Community College (RCC), in Riverside, California, launched New Visions in 1999, a program designed to help welfare recipients prepare for college and move to better jobs. The program is a partnership between RCC and the Riverside Department of Public Social Services (DPSS). New Visions provides a 24-week program of academic instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
Bliss, Steven – 2000
San Francisco Works (SFWorks) is a collaborative welfare-to-work project conducted by a coalition of large San Francisco-area employers, the city's Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way of the Bay Area. The project was piloted beginning in March 1998 by contracting with five community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide a comprehensive range…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
The Role of the Community College in Welfare Reform since Passage of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
Delmonico, Matt – 2000
The paper addresses the impact of welfare reform on the community college and discusses how community colleges are responding to this important social and economic issue. One of the main tenants of the 1996 Welfare Reform Bill is to shift the responsibility for welfare to the states, requiring that half of all able-bodied recipients find work by…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Government School Relationship
Peer reviewedLieberman, Nancy; Vaughn, Suzanne A. – NASPA Journal, 1990
Describes the Public Assistance Comprehensive Education (PACE) program, a vocational training program established for individuals receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The PACE program was designed to assist public assistance recipients with many financial and personal problems in obtaining education and jobs. (TE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Programs
Johnson, Karen; Petersen, Kim – 1992
The Greater Avenues for Independence Linkages Internship Project (GAIN-LIP), administered by the Occupational Training Institute of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District (FDCCD) in Cupertino, California, is designed to assist recipients of Aide to Families with Dependent Children develop job skills that allow them to become…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Institutional Cooperation, Internship Programs
Diamond, Franna, Ed. – 1994
This Kids Count report examines statewide trends from 1990 to 1994 in the well-being of Massachusetts' children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of well-being in five areas: (1) economic well-being of children and their families, including child poverty rate, family income, job loss, earnings of male high school dropouts and…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Report on the Family Support Act of 1988 Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program.
Visdos, Robert J.; Malley, Mary R. – 1990
Intended to assist two-year colleges in understanding the educational aspects of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program, this five-part report provides a brief summary of the intent of the program, as well as suggestions regarding ways two-year colleges can become involved. The sections of the report offer information on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Legislation, Employment
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1993
In 1991, the Adult Education for the Homeless (AEH) Program consisted of projects in 31 states; a total of $7.4 million was available to these projects. The projects provided instruction in basic and life skills, further assisted homeless adults through counseling and life planning activities, and coordinated efforts with other homeless…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Economically Disadvantaged
