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An Employment Training and Job Placement Program for Foster Youth Making the Transition to Adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
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Dworsky, Amy; Havlicek, Judy – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2010
This report describes the results of a study that used administrative data to better understand the need for employment-related services and supports among youth in foster care and how one community-based employment training and job placement program in Chicago is trying to address those needs. Among other things, the report describes the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Job Placement, Foster Care, Youth
Community Integrated Employment. Outcome Report, July 1990 to June 1991.
Colorado State Dept. of Institutions, Denver. Div. of Developmental Disabilities. – 1992
This report describes achievements of Colorado's Division for Developmental Disabilities' Community Integrated Employment (CIE) Program for the 1990-91 period. The report begins with a definition of "community integrated employment." Text and graphical data on characteristics of persons in community integrated employment, including age…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Decision Making, Developmental Disabilities
New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program To Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare.
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Huston, Aletha C.; Miller, Cynthia.; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn.; Duncan, Greg J.; Eldred, Carolyn A.; Weisner, Thomas S.; Lowe, Edward; McLoyd. Vonnie C.; Crosby, Danielle A.; Ripke, Marika N.; Redcross, Cindy – 2003
This study evaluated the New Hope Project, a demonstration program implemented in two inner-city areas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The project offered low-income people willing to work full time an earnings supplement to raise their incomes above poverty; subsidized health insurance; subsidized child care; and help obtaining jobs. The evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Care, Child Welfare, Community Programs
New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program To Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare. Summary Report.
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Huston, Aletha C.; Miller, Cynthia.; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn.; Duncan, Greg J.; Eldred, Carolyn A.; Weisner, Thomas S.; Lowe, Edward; McLoyd. Vonnie C.; Crosby, Danielle A.; Ripke, Marika N.; Redcross, Cindy – 2003
This report summarizes an analysis of New Hope, a demonstration program designed to improve the lives of low-income people willing to work full time by providing several benefits (an earnings supplement to raise their income above poverty, subsidized health insurance, and subsidized child care) and offering help obtaining jobs. New Hope was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Care, Child Welfare, Community Programs