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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study obtained information on examples of county or local Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) or JOBS-like programs that emphasize job placement, subsidized employment, or work experience positions for welfare recipients. It also identified the extent to which county JOBS programs nationwide used these employment-focused activities and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Berlin, Gordon L. – 2002
To inform policymakers as they deliberate over the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization, this guide reviews what states have done with the flexibility afforded them by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. The first section examines how states have shaped their welfare reform strategies…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Innovation, Participation
Bloom, Dan; Farrell, Mary; Kemple, James J.; Verma, Nandita – 1999
This report focuses on implementation, impacts, and time limit in Florida's Family Transition Program (FTP), a welfare reform initiative. Chapter 1 describes FTP and evaluation, target population, and data. Chapter 2 describes implementation of FTP in Escambia County: staffing and organizational structure of FTP and traditional Aid to Families…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Wood, Robert G.; And Others – Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Presents interim findings from an impact analysis of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) Program. LEAP is a statewide program designed to encourage school attendance among pregnant and parenting teens on welfare. Suggests that LEAP has succeeded in its primary short-term goal of increasing the school enrollment and attendance of teen…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Early Parenthood, Low Income Groups
Peer reviewedO'Brien, Kathleen; Stevenson, Carol – Young Children, 1993
Provides an overview of Family Support Act child care programs and highlights the successes and missed opportunities of the programs' first years. Areas discussed include child care for parents in training programs; child care for working parents receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); the At-Risk Child Care program; and welfare…
Descriptors: Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Direct linkHarslof, Ivan – Journal of Youth Studies, 2005
Young unemployed persons are a prioritised group in active labour market programmes. Such programmes can be regarded as "integrative", facilitating integration into the labour market for young people in accordance with their own preferences. However, such programmes can also be regarded as "defensive", discouraging young…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Youth
Blank, Susan – 1992
Most discussions of welfare reform ignore two factors: its effect on children; and the fact that a welfare reform law, the Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA), already exists. FSA created state Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) welfare-to-work programs, and if the JOBS program is adequately funded, it can improve the lives of welfare…
Descriptors: Child Health, Childhood Needs, Day Care, Family Life
Maynard, Rebecca, Ed. – 1993
This report synthesizes first-phase evaluation results of the Teenage Parent Demonstration program. This program, whose cornerstone is case management, responded to three concerns: (1) rising welfare caseloads; (2) persistently high rates of teenage pregnancies and births; and (3) the high probability that teenage parents will go onto welfare and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delivery Systems, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged
Auspos, Patricia; And Others – 1988
Training Opportunities in the Private Sector (TOPS) was a small-scale, voluntary program operated as one among many employment-related options available to recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children in Maine's Work Incentive (WIN) Program. TOPS was distinguished from Maine's other WIN demonstration activities by three program elements.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Incentives
Scarupa, Harriet J., Ed. – 2002
As federal and state officials consider the reauthorization of the block grants at the center of the 1996 federal welfare reform law, it is critical that they use findings from research regarding the impact of welfare reform to guide their decisions. This special report examines the impact of welfare reform on children and youth, drawing on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Children, Comparative Analysis
Miller, Cynthia; Knox, Virginia; Auspos, Patricia; Hunter-Manns, Jo Anna; Orenstein, Alan – 1997
The Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) is a welfare reform initiative based on enhancing welfare recipients' incentives to get a job and requiring long-term welfare recipients to participate in employment-focused activities. The effects of the MFIP were compared to those of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program through…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns
Scrivener, Susan; Walter, Johanna – 2001
A random assignment study evaluated two welfare program case management approaches, traditional and integrated, and was conducted as part of the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work (WTW) Strategies, an evaluation of 11 welfare-to-work programs in 7 sites nationwide. More that 7,000 single parent welfare applicants and recipients deemed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Management Systems
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
This document is comprised of two separate publications, a report concerning the current AFDC program and related testimony. The report discusses a study that assessed the progress the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program had made in serving an increasingly larger portion of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) caseload,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, At Risk Persons, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Brock, Thomas; And Others – 1993
The history of unpaid work experience shows that work requirements for welfare recipients have often been proposed and attempted. The consistent trend has been to place greater emphasis on employability services. Studies of nine welfare-to-work programs providing unpaid work experience indicate that the level of participation is limited by factors…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Programs, Participant Satisfaction, Program Attitudes
Friedlander, Daniel; And Others – 1993
An evaluation was conducted of the effectiveness of California's Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) Program, a statewide initiative aimed at increasing the employment and self-sufficiency of recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Based on 2 years of follow-up data for 33,000 people who entered GAIN between early 1988 and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Followup Studies, Job Placement
