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Foss, Louisa L.; Generali, Margaret M.; Kress, Victoria E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 2011
Counselors frequently counsel clients who live in poverty. The authors describe the new CARE model that addresses the influence of multiple systems on poor clients' experiences. A social justice, humanistic intervention, the CARE model emphasizes cultivating a positive counseling relationship with poor clients, empathizing with their unique…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Counseling Techniques, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged
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Behrman, Jere R.; Gallardo-Garcia, Jorge; Parker, Susan W.; Todd, Petra E.; Velez-Grajales, Viviana – Education Economics, 2012
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide as a new form of social assistance for the poor. Previous evaluations of CCT programs focus mainly on rural settings, and little is known about their effects in urban areas. This paper studies the short-term (1- and 2-year) effects of the Mexican "Oportunidades" CCT program…
Descriptors: Evidence, Incentives, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
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Bloom, Leslie Rebecca – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2009
Access to post-secondary education for welfare recipients has been profoundly curtailed by social and welfare policies. However, many low-income mothers know that post-secondary education is the best means to escape poverty. This article focuses on five "student mothers" who have persisted in fulfilling their dreams of a college education with the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Academic Achievement, Welfare Recipients, Low Income Groups
Academy for Educational Development, 2007
This is a report on the Symposium that accompanied the 15-16 May, 2007 meeting of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education. The IATT Symposium provided an opportunity to address in some detail two selected problems that are critical to stemming the advance of HIV infection--areas that have had some attention, but remain insufficiently…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Educational Development, Conflict