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Download full textBryant, Donna; Maxwell, Kelly; Burchinal, Peg; Lowman, Betsy – 1997
Smart Start is a broad-based community initiative to ensure that all of North Carolina's children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn. This study examined the effect of Smart Start on the quality of child care from 1994-1996. Data were collected from child care centers in 12 counties implementing the initiative. Data collectors visited 180…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Day Care, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
Pauly, Edward; And Others – 1992
A study aimed to provide education and welfare officials with information on the experiences of welfare/education programs as they had been implemented in five states. The states (California, Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin) represented a range of noteworthy approaches to providing education to welfare recipients, including some dramatic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Education Work Relationship
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2002
Coordination between Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)-related programs and Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA)'s one-stop centers increased since spring 2000, when WIA was first implemented. Nearly all states reported some coordination between the programs at either the state or the local level. Most often, coordination took one…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
California State Legislature, Sacramento. Senate Office of Research. – 1997
This document explains the objectives and components of California Work Opportunities and Responsibility for Kids (CalWORKs), which is a seven-step program designed to move welfare parents into the workplace. Presented first are a list of the 14 principles behind CalWORKs and a flowchart illustrating the program's operation. After a discussion of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Day Care, Federal Legislation, Job Development
Schexnayder, Deanna T.; Olson, Jerome A. – 1995
The second-year impacts of Texas' Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program for early participants were analyzed. A quasi-experimental study design was used to analyze data about 13,396 JOBS participants and 13,303 comparison group members. The analysis focused on the labor market outcomes of JOBS participants and their exits from and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Employment Level
Kaplan, April – Issue Notes, 1999
This issue of WIN (Welfare Information Network) Issue Notes focuses on the tendency of children from low-income families to drop out of high school, become teen parents, become involved in drug-related activities, and become involved in other activities that place them at high risk of long-term welfare dependency. Section 1 offers the background.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Early Parenthood
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2000
The Washington State Displaced Homemaker Program (DHP) as administered by the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) accomplished its goals during the 1997-99 biennium. Four multipurpose service centers provided services to displaced homemakers in urban and rural county areas; four programs provided services to displaced homemakers in rural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Services, Information Services
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2002
A study assessed whether the Department of Labor's (DOL's) information on states' Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) spending was a true reflection of states' available funds. The most recent available spending data from DOL and the 50 states were analyzed. Interviews were conducted with state workforce officials in nine states, local…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Compliance (Legal), Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Services
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
The General Accounting Office was asked by the House Committee on Education and Labor to review state implementation of the Child Care and Development Block Grant to determine the problems states encounter as they integrate the block grant and the other federal child care programs for low-income families into their child care delivery programs and…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Day Care, Delivery Systems, Economically Disadvantaged
Hill, Jim; Rezabek, Dale – 1990
Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), California's welfare reform program, provides education, job services, and support services to welfare recipients to promote self-sufficiency and eliminate welfare dependency. In 1989, a survey was conducted of all California community colleges to gather information on GAIN participants, services, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Friedlander, Daniel; And Others – 1986
This report presents findings of a three-year evaluation of West Virginia's Community Work Experience Program (CWEP), which requires public service in exchange for welfare payments by able-bodied recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Overall findings indicate that the state has succeeded in its principal objective:…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Sullivan, Candace J.; Sugarman, Jule M. – 1996
The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 means that, for the first time, the federal government has shifted substantial responsibility for maintaining a social safety net for the most vulnerable populations to the state governments. This guide summarizes the contents of the new law, identifies…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Day Care, Employed Parents, Employment Patterns
Maryland State Dept. of Human Resources, Baltimore. – 1999
Research was conducted on the use of education services by welfare recipients in Maryland through surveying local departments of social services and using university research departments. Information was sought on the following: the number of Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) customers engaged in educational activities, the types of activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Reuys, Steve – 1997
Conversations with seven Boston-area adult basic education (ABE) program coordinators revealed the severe adverse effects of Massachusetts' new restrictive welfare reform law on literacy education programs for the poor. The new law limits cash assistance to 2 years for most welfare recipients and requires most recipients whose youngest child is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Compliance (Legal)
Hamilton, Gayle; Scrivener, Susan – 1999
This guide highlights issues involved in increasing participation in welfare-to-work programs and offers advice and best practices for achieving higher participation levels. Part 1, "Introduction," has three sections that discuss the importance of participation, summarize major points, and introduce the guide. The seven sections of Part…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Enrollment
