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The following message is from Alice Johnson at the National Institute for
Literacy
Akeel H. Zaheer
National Center for Family Literacy
Email: azaheer@famlit.org
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Hot off the presses! The National Institute for Literacy has a new
resource available, "What Works: Integrating Basic Skills Training
into Welfare-to-Work."
This report grew out of a request from a Coalition for Literacy task
force that we determine whether education was being used as part of
effective welfare-to-work efforts in accordance with the 1996 welfare
law and, if so, how. The report shows that the federal welfare law
does provide opportunities to include basic skills instruction as part
of welfare recipients' transition to work, and profiles eight
exemplary programs that are achieving success in this area.
We hope it will be a useful tool for practitioners by providing ideas
of what is working well in other programs. We also hope that by
disseminating it beyond the adult education and literacy field that
others in the education, job training, and public assistance fields
will see that helping people on welfare improve their skills can be a
component of effective welfare-to-work programs.
The Institute is funding representatives from the eight exemplary
programs to present at conferences nationwide about what they are
doing that is working well. We are trying to reach a larger audience
than simply the adult education and literacy field with this
information so that others involved in welfare-to-work will understand
that literacy needs to be part of the equation. For instance, we
funded one of the programs to present at a recent National Governors'
Association conference.
The report is available at no cost through the National Literacy
Hotline and Clearinghouse at 1-800-228-8813.
Alice Johnson
National Institute for Literacy
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