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Download full textChild Care Action Campaign, New York, NY. – 1997
On December 11, 1997, the Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC) hosted an audioconference to explore the issue of how parents seeking to get off welfare can learn about subsidies available for child care in the transition from welfare to work. Presenters were Doug Baird, president of Associated Day Care Services in Boston, who discussed lessons of a…
Descriptors: Day Care, Diffusion (Communication), Early Childhood Education, Grants
Trutko, John; Nightingale, Deborah Smith; Barnow, Burt S. – 1999
This paper synthesizes what is currently known about providing education and training after an individual is employed and provides suggestions on models and strategies that can be effective in promoting occupational mobility and career advancement for welfare recipients. Among the rationales for considering education and training after an…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment, Grants, Models
Peer reviewedMeyers, Marcia K. – Child Welfare, 1995
Interviewed 1,343 single mothers in California who received Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) concerning available child day care options and subsidies. Results suggested that efforts to increase target efficiency in public child day care subsidies by narrowly restricting eligibility may be reducing effectiveness on related policy…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Eligibility, Grants
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2001
Recognition of the link between child care and the success of welfare reform has given rise to questions about how states are spending child care funds provided through Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). At the request of members of Congress, this report from the General Accounting Office…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Expenditures, Grants
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
In response to congressional approaches to welfare reform, this report describes a study of the extent to which child care needs of welfare recipients in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program are currently being met, whether any barriers exist to meeting the child care needs of JOBS participants, the effects of child care subsidies…
Descriptors: County Programs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs
Martinson, Karin; Strawn, Julie – 2003
Federal welfare funding through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant gives states flexibility to help low income parents move into employment. However, the law discourages states from allowing welfare recipients to participate in education and training programs. These restrictions are at odds with recent research…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Federal Government
Hecker, JayEtta Z. – 2002
A series of reviews of the Department of Transportation's (DOT's) Job Access and Reverse Commute (Job Access) Program explored DOT's and grantees' challenges in implementing the Job Access program and the status of DOT's program evaluation efforts. DOT and grantees faced significant challenges in implementing the Job Access program. DOT's process…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Compliance (Legal), Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Blau, David; Tekin, Erdal – 2001
This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. The paper reviews the literature on child care subsidies and discusses the potential for such subsidies to be an effective part of the effort to make low-income families economically self-sufficient. The paper then uses data from the National Survey of America's…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Characteristics, Financial Support
Ross, Jane L. – 1994
This statement by the associate director of Income Security Issues of the Department of Health, Education and Human Services Division addresses the Congressional welfare reform goal of self-sufficiency for welfare mothers through employment. It analyzes the problems of the current welfare subsidy system by examining the effect of child care…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Health, Child Rearing, Day Care
