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Download full textDechausay, Nadine; Miller, Cynthia; Quiroz-Becerra, Victoria – MDRC, 2014
In 2007, New York City launched the first test of a conditional cash transfer program in the United States. Called Family Rewards, the program sought to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty by offering cash assistance to poor families to reduce immediate hardship, but conditioned this assistance on families' efforts to improve their…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Poverty Programs, Welfare Services, Family Programs
Riccio, James; Dechausay, Nadine; Miller, Cynthia; Nuñez, Stephen; Verma, Nandita; Yang, Edith – MDRC, 2013
Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards, an experimental, privately funded, conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to help families break the cycle of poverty, was the first comprehensive CCT program in a developed country. Launched in 2007 by New York City's Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO), Family Rewards offered cash assistance to low-income…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Incentive Grants, Poverty Programs
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Direct linkPufahl, Elisabeth – Child Welfare, 2007
Nonprofit family-run organizations, such as Tennessee Voices for Children (TVC), are providing leadership in advocating for and delivering services to children and families in need. Utilizing a family-driven approach and a staff partially comprised of parent-professionals, TVC's Nashville Connection and Family Connection programs have strengthened…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Child Welfare, Mental Health, Delivery Systems
Potocik, Pamela D.; Marshall, Cynthia L. K. – 1986
The delivery model of the Birth-through-Three program incorporates interlocking community-based centers with a regional agency (Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative) under the administrative guidance of an advisory council. The program goal is to provide highly qualified professional services to the targeted children/families within…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment
Bloom, Dan; Anderson, Jacquelyn; Wavelet, Melissa; Gardiner, Karen N.; Fishman, Michael E. – 2002
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project was undertaken to identify effective strategies for helping low-income parents work more steadily and advance in the labor market. The 15 ERA demonstration projects that were operating in nine states (California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, South Carolina; Tennessee, and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach
