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Download full textLevin-Epstein, Jodie – 1993
A June 1992 survey was conducted to determine the number of teenage mothers receiving Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) who were participating in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program of the Family Support Act of 1988, and who were receiving education, job training, and child care. Some of the findings from the statistics gathered…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Day Care, Early Parenthood, Federal Programs
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Vocational Studies Center. – 1987
This directory is one component of the Career Survival Kit prepared for teenage parents in Wisconsin. The directory lists resources in Wisconsin for education, employment, social services, and organizations in a variety of areas that can help students with their roles as parent/homemaker and wage earner/student. The directory identifies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Programs, Coping, Early Parenthood
Solow, Katherine; Walker, Gary – 1986
This study describes and assesses the early years of implementation of Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in regard to its services to women. Title II of JTPA is the major Federal program intervention--funded at about 1.8 billion dollars annually--aimed at providing employment and training services for the economically…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Displaced Homemakers, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
A study reviewed how states are serving teen parents in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program. Teen parents receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) during a selected month of fiscal year 1992 were randomly sampled in 16 states. A questionnaire collected data from their JOBS and AFDC case workers. Telephone…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Early Parenthood, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Human Resources. – 1993
This document contains a record of the oral and written testimony of witnesses at a Chicago (Illinois) Congressional hearing on the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program. Witnesses at the hearing included officials from various Illinois programs funded by the JOBS program, government officials, and unemployed persons. They…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Blacks, Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1986
Testimony was heard from two panels concerning: (1) child care as a supportive service designed to ensure parents' access to education, job training, and the labor market; and (2) the effectiveness of federal programs in administering to child care needs. Witnesses appearing in the first panel described (1) experience as a single parent; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Costs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Blank, Rebecca M. – 1997
This book examines the condition of America's poor and the policies used to help them, demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective in reducing poverty than most people think. One of the primary points of the book is that poverty is not synonymous with single mothers and their children on welfare; in fact, the majority of the poor…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Crime, Early Parenthood
Ooms, Theodora; Owen, Todd – 1991
Meeting highlights and a background briefing report are provided from a policy seminar, one in a series of monthly staff seminars titled "Family Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda." The highlights summarize remarks by three panelists. Alan Hershey describes the Teenage Parent Demonstration in New Jersey and Illinois and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Early Parenthood
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1995
The effectiveness of employment and training (E&T) programs in improving labor market outcomes can be assessed by measuring the impact on the future success of participants. The program with the greatest success in reducing dropout rates among at-risk youth is the Quantum Opportunities Project. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers
