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Welfare to Work
Resources on effective methods of transitioning parents from welfare to work and the impact of welfare-to-work programs on children and families. Resources include State and local examples.
Experimental Studies of Welfare Reform and Children
Zaslow, Moore, Brooks, Morris, Tout, Redd, & Emig
Children and Welfare Reform, 12(1), 2002
Findings from the first seven experimental evaluations of welfare programs, presenting evidence concerning the impacts of various reform strategies on children of different ages.
How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2001)
Represents a major advance in resolving the debate over how best to assist people transitioning from welfare to work. Presents features of the most effective program and how the findings affect children.
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies: Do Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs Affect the Well-Being of Children? A Synthesis of Child Research Conducted as Part of the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (PDF - 267 KB)
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000)
Examines the effects of 11 welfare-to-work programs on the children of parents (mostly single mothers) mandated to participate. Seven sites in six States were included.
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State and local examples
Challenges Faced by Rural TANF Recipients: Regional Differences in the Outcomes of a Lifeskills Program
Zunz, Wichroski, Hebert, & Hebert
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 12(1), 2005
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Analyzes the socioeconomic disparities between a State's rural and nonrural counties and describes differences in outcomes between geographically diverse participants in a statewide welfare-to-work life skills program.
New Hope for Children and Families: Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (2003)
The 5-year results of the New Hope Project implemented in two inner-city areas in Milwaukee to offer low-income people who were willing to work full time several benefits for 3 years: an earnings supplement to raise their income above the poverty level, subsidized health insurance, subsidized childcare, and referral to a wage-paying community service job for people who had difficulty finding full-time work. (PDF - 1060 KB)
Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (2000)
Summarizes findings of an evaluation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program, a welfare reform initiative implemented in three urban and four rural counties of the State.
Service Integration in Wisconsin: Racine and Kenosha Counties (PDF - 40 KB)
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (2002)
In Racine and Kenosha counties (Wisconsin), human services agencies are responsible for administering the State welfare program, Workforce Investment Act activities, aging programs, and children and family services.
Turning the Corner: Delaware's A Better Chance Welfare Reform Program at Four Years
Abt Associates, Inc. (2001)
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Describes outcomes of policies established during the first 4 years of A Better Chance (ABC). Data for the study were collected from site visits to welfare offices and service providers, interviews with program staff, focus groups with clients, and a review of administrative data on families enrolled in ABC and comparison Aid to Families with Dependent Children families.
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