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Zaslow, Martha J.; And Others – Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Summarizes ongoing research on the children of mothers assigned to participate in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills training program (JOBS). Identifies the problems inherent in generalizing from the available data and underscores the need for future research steps to understand the implications for children of programs to enhance the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
Download full textGolden, Olivia – 1991
This executive summary crystallizes the main themes of a study that is intended to help policymakers, advocates, community members, and welfare administrators create a welfare system to do more for children and do it better. The study was prompted by the Family Support Act of 1988. The following programs that have been successful in providing…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Children, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
Smith, Sheila, Ed. – 1995
This volume examines two-generation interventions as models that represent a new approach to assisting families in poverty. Five of the chapters examine current programs--their design, characteristics of participants, implementation issues, and in one case, evaluation outcomes. Other chapters offer a research and policy context for this…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Life, Family Literacy
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
