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Using Threats of Poverty to Promote School Attendance: Implications of Wisconsin's Learnfare Experiment for Families.

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Quinn, Lois – Journal of Children and Poverty, 1995

Examined the effectiveness of the Wisconsin Learnfare experiment that requires teens to attend school regularly as a condition of receiving family financial aid. Findings from state social services data reveal that, despite a $1.5 million "savings" attributed to the program between September 1988 and December 1989, tremendous family…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Child Abuse, Economically Disadvantaged

Project SOAR 1996-1997. Evaluation Report.

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Powers, Stephen; McConner, Stanley – 1997

Project SOAR (Student Opportunity for Academic Renewal) provides academic and personal mentoring and family support services to at-risk middle and high school students in six schools of the Tucson (Arizona) Unified School District. In 1996-97, 95 participants were served by the program and 95 mentors participated. This resulted in a win-win…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Career Exploration

Title IV-E-IL: Adolescent Living Skills. Final Report, FFY 1999.

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Minnesota State Dept. of Human Services, St. Paul. Div. of Family and Children's Services. – 1999

Minnesota divides its Title IV-E-IL allocation among three components of a statewide program titled Support for Emancipation and Living Functionally (SELF). SELF is a state-supervised, county-implemented program based on the premise that youth in substitute (foster) care are at significant risk of not making a successful transition to independent…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Conventional Instruction, Counseling Services