Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id KAA04997; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:33:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:33:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1302462430-161436289@[208.141.11.154]> Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Mary Gwen Wheeler <mwheeler@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1747] Re: NIFL Publication X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail & News for Macintosh - 3.0c (405) Gail -- Did this pub. ever come in? MG ---------- > From: Akeel Zaheer <azaheer@famlit.org> > To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> > Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1732] NIFL Publication > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:12:53 -0400 (EDT) > >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 >x--------x------------x------------x-------------x------------x----------x- - >----------x-----------x-----------x----------x-------x--- > > > 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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