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Download full textBrown, Rebecca – Issue Notes, 2000
This issue of WIN (Welfare Information Network) Issue Notes focuses on helping low-income mothers with criminal records achieve self-sufficiency. Section 1 offers background. Section 2 answers these policy questions: why states might want to focus on serving low-income mothers with criminal records; how states can encourage employers to hire…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Custody, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Oshinsky, Carole, Ed. – News and Issues, 1998
This newsletter is devoted to identifying and promoting strategies to reduce the young child poverty rate and to improve the life chances of young children living in poverty. The Spring 1998 issue includes articles on state investments to enhance the well-being of young children and families, and child poverty rates in a booming U.S. economy. The…
Descriptors: Fathers, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups
Resources for Welfare Decisions, 2002
Asset development is an emerging approach to promoting self-sufficiency for low-income workers. By promoting and rewarding savings, asset development strategies encourage individuals to set long-term economic goals. Asset development strategies can accomplish the following objectives: (1) give low-income workers the knowledge required to navigate…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Banking, Educational History, Educational Practices
Mitchell, George A. – Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Report, 1992
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) provides tax support for children from low-income families to attend private schools. It is administered by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction, although lack of administrative support for the program has been apparent. In addition, the Superintendent of Public Instruction has expressed…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Oshinsky, Carole J., Ed. – News and Issues, 1999
This publication is comprised of the two 1999 issues of "News and Issues," a newsletter devoted to identifying and promoting strategies to reduce the young child poverty rate, and to improve the life chances of children still living in poverty. The Winter/Spring issue includes the following articles: (1) "Innovative Strategies Help…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Day Care
Douglas, Dorothy, Ed. – Alaska's Children, 1997
These four issues of the "Alaska's Children" provide information on the activities of the Alaska Head Start State Collaboration Project and other Head Start activities. Legal and policy changes affecting the education of young children in Alaska are also discussed. The Spring 1997 issue includes articles on brain development and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brain, Change Strategies, Child Health
Goodman, Bryan, Ed. – Child Advocates: Making a Difference, 2002., 2002
This document is comprised of 11 issues of a newsletter providing information on current child advocacy initiatives and accomplishments. Each issue describes one local or state child advocacy program or initiative and its accomplishments, highlighting National Association of Child Advocates (NACA) member initiatives that have resulted in concrete…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Health
