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Education & Job Skill Development

The cycle of poverty can have a long-term effect on children, contributing to and exacerbating child maltreatment, mental illness, substance abuse, homelessness, and other problems that create barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment as an adult.

Education and job programs aimed at enhancing family economic success require workforce development, family economic supports, and community investment. An integrated system of social services and welfare services can help decision-makers identify the services needed to help families meet employment and income goals.

Building Family Assets: A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams (PDF - 325 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation (2001)
Describes ways of enabling low-income, working families to build up assets through savings and supplements to the wages paid for entry-level jobs.

FES Local Action Handbook for Making Connections Teams (PDF - 1858 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation (2005)
Ideas and examples of policy and regulatory actions for strengthening the structures that lead to family economic success.

Integrating Employment, Economic Supports and Family Capacity Building
Briar-Lawson (2001)
In Innovative Practices With Vulnerable Children and Families
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Examines the causes and consequences of childhood poverty and presents a vision for investing in children and families with integrated human services to help decision-makers understand the long-term impact of poverty and identify services needed for families to meet employment and income goals.

	Related Information Gateway Topics Systemwide: Education services Systemwide: Employment & training services

Updated on February 24, 2010