Welfare and Work
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– Evaluation –
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
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Immigrants and TANF: A Look at Immigrant Welfare Recipients in Three Cities
Author: Tumlin, Karen; Wendy Zimmerman
Description: Key findings, based on case studies of New York, Los Angeles, and Houston, show that: immigrants and limited English speakers make up a significant share of those on welfare; many have significant barriers to work including less education and work history than natives; and immigrants on welfare are less likely to be working and more likely to be working in dead-end jobs. Job training programs often have English language requirements, limiting immigrants' access. The authors conclude that combining part-time work and language training can help immigrant welfare recipients move into jobs and off the welfare rolls.
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Community Support for Work First Participants 
Description: Chapter 1 from a manual that provides an overview of the situations of families in poverty, of federal welfare reform legislation, of the Work First program in North Carolina, and of ways our communities can respond to the needs and concerns of Work First participants. Discusses families in Poverty, welfare reform, and work first.
JobStart Provides Preemployment Education for Welfare to Work Clients: Methods and Outcomes
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This report describes the job preparation curriculum used in the Welfare to Work Project conducted by the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences at the University of Florida.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
Share Yourself - Coaching to Win
Author: Smith, Claudette (1 more by this author)
Description: A project designed to train community volunteers to develop a successful mentoring/coaching relationship with welfare to work participants. A curriculum titled "Coaching to Win" was produced as a facilitator guide for training along with two support pieces "Coaches Playbook" provided to all volunteers trained and"Winners Game Plan for the welfare to work participants in the program.
– Research –
Employers' Perceptions of Welfare Reform: Implications for Cooperative Extension Personnel
Description: The purposes of this study were to examine employers' perceptions of factors related to their participation in a welfare reform program, Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW), and to identify factors that they felt affected the entry of welfare recipients into the workforce.
Making Child Care Choices: How Welfare and Work Policies' Influence Parents Decisions
Author: Gennetian, Lisa (1 more by this author); Young Eun Chang, et al.; Danielle A. Crosby; Aletha C. Huston
Description: This policy brief examines whether current child care assistance provisions meet the needs of working families and support childrenÂ’s intellectual and social development. For low-income parents who work securing affordable, accessible, and reliable child care can be very difficult. Key research findings in the area of work and child care are summarized in this brief.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
Teens, Jobs, and Welfare: Implications for Social Policy
Author: Brown, Brett
Description: This Research Brief examines teen employment in the context of welfare reform, drawing on data from the National Survey of AmericaÂ’sFamilies (NSAF) to describe employment patterns among teens ages 14 to 17.
Author: Knox, Virginia; Ellen K. Scott; Andrew S. London
Description: This policy brief describes research which examined the work and child care patterns of low-income families. It discusses the fact that families may find child care subsidy programs unhelpful and issues associated with informal child care.
Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues
Description: This site provides an overview of articles written on welfare reform and issues surrounding it.
Description: This Future of Children journal reports on the effects of welfare reform and welfare to work efforts with implications for parent educators and policy makers.