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Direct linkAber, J. Lawrence; Morris, Pamela; Wolf, Sharon; Berg, Juliette – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This article examines the impacts of Opportunity New York City-Family Rewards, the first holistic conditional cash transfer (CCT) program evaluated in the United States, on parental financial investments in children, and high school students' academic time use, motivations and self-beliefs, and achievement outcomes. Family Rewards, launched by the…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Rewards, Family Programs, High School Students
Purtell, Kelly M.; McLoyd, Vonnie C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Planning and preparing for life after high school is a central developmental task of American adolescents, and may be even more critical for low-income youth who are less likely to attend a four year college. This study investigates factors that led to the effects of the New Hope Project, a work-based, anti-poverty program directed at parents on…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Program Effectiveness, Developmental Tasks, Poverty Programs
Craig, Sara – Opportunity, 1972
Describes the progress of the Day Care Center program in Talladega County, Alabama, started in 1970 by a small Office of Economic Opportunities grant to the Talladega-Clay-Randolph Community Action Committee. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Community Planning, Day Care, Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income
Long, Richard F. – Opportunity, 1972
Describes the activities of the Southwest Florida Self-Help Housing, Inc., serving three counties in the Florida migrant and seasonal farming area, first funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity out of its Migrant Division funds in 1967. (JM)
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Housing Needs, Housing Opportunities, Low Income
Download full textGermanis, Peter, Ed.; Bavier, Richard, Ed. – 1987
About half of the first part of a 4-part compendium of information about low income assistance programs is presented in this document (the rest of part 1 and the other 3 parts of the compendium are presented in volume 3 of supplement 1 of this series). Part 1 contains detailed information about 59 major federally supported public assistance…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Interagency Low Income Opportunity Advisory Board, Washington, DC. – 1987
This volume contains the second half of part 1 of a 4-part compendium of information about low income assistance programs plus the remaining 3 parts of the compendium. Part 1 contains detailed information about 59 major federally supported public assistance programs, each of which annually spent over $20 million in fiscal year 1985, and applied a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
