| Description |
1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Contents |
Challenges of welfare reform / Sharon Telleen -- The effects of welfare-to-work legislation on children and mothers : a legal overview / Irene Banias -- The social ecology of the transition to work / Sharon Telleen, Steven Andes -- Welfare, work, and well-being among inner-city mothers / Kathleen S. Crittenden [and others] -- How do maternal risk factors affect children in low-income families? : further evidence of two-generational implications / Elizabeth C. Hair [and others] -- Providing financial empowerment to mothers on welfare : pilot evaluations of a hospitality training program / Joseph R. Ferrari, Adriana Gracias, Adriana Morales -- Career search efficacy among an at-risk sample : examining changes among welfare recipients / Irene J. Franze, Joseph R. Ferrari -- Welfare reform and women's health : challenges and opportunities to advance the public response to the health needs of poor women through monitoring and collaboration / Lucia Rojas Smith, Patricia O'Campo, Holly Grason -- The effect of state welfare waivers on family earnings and income growth of AFDC recipients, 1993-1995 / Laura S. Connolly |
| Summary |
How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s? The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in 1996. It will familiarize you with the intent of those reforms and show you how those interventions have been implemented. It also explores the barriers to employment that must be overcome by welfare-to-work clients, and the impact of these changes on clients, employ |
| Notes |
"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, Volume 23, Numbers 1/2 2002." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public welfare -- United States.
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Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Public welfare
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Welfare recipients -- Employment
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Telleen, Sharon
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Sayad, Judith V
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| ISBN |
9781135423223 |
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1135423229 |
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