Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f76H5gf08624; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05001907b7947d80fb5c@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:168] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4787 Lines: 92 The information below is from WebClipper Digest, HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. For daily Headlines news, Alerts and Discussions, and to start your personal clipping service tailored to your needs, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ************************************ AUGUST 3, 2001 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS - As school-based after-school programs are increasingly becoming the solution suggested for many youth problems, Public/Private Ventures details lessons for policymakers. http://www.ppv.org/content/reports/esssummary.html MORE FAMILIES GO WITHOUT HEALTH COVERAGE AS THEY MOVE FROM WELFARE TO WORK - An intensive survey of health insurance coverage for children and their caregivers in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio shows that as families move into the workforce, they are losing Medicaid health care coverage, and private employer health care coverage is not filling the gap. Where you live also plays a role, as the states of Illinois and Massachusetts are doing a better job of helping provide Medicaid coverage to their low-income residents than Texas. http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/index.html TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS - A Children's Health Fund survey finds that the lack of transportation is a major but hidden barrier to regular and follow-up care for the nation's children. While Medicaid is required to provided needed transportation, SCHIP is not. Due in large measure to a failure to recognize the critical role that access to transportation has in obtaining medical care, the needs of communities lacking public transit services are under-represented as a federal funding priority. CHF has established the National Children's Health Project Network, which provides cost-effective mobile medical care linked to comprehensive health care services to low-income and poor children in 16 rural and urban sites across the country. CHF recommends that the federal government identify transportation-poor areas and provide resources to develop a coordinated health care transportation infrastructure in targeted areas http://www.childrenshealthfund.org/release071201.html CHILD HUNGER PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN - To reveal the glaring fact that 12 million American children face hunger, the Ad Council has launched a national public awareness campaign in partnership with America's Second Harvest and the ConAgra Feeding Children Better Foundation. The ad campaign brings added attention to the reality that as schools across the country close for the summer, many parents face additional obstacles to feeding their kids as they try to replace the free or reduced cost meals their children normally receive at school. To view the ads, learn more about childhood hunger in the summer or get involved in your local community, see: http://www.secondharvest.org/newsroom/newsroom.html NOT MAKING ENDS MEET: FAMILY BUDGETS AND THE POVERTY LINE - One in three working families with young children cannot afford to meet their basic needs. This is two-and-a-half times as many families as fall below the official poverty line. Families are able to meet their basic needs when they have income above their basic family budget, calculated by determining how much income families need to afford a safe and decent standard of living. Economic Policy Institute's latest book, Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families, (now available at www.epinet.org) examines the cost of living in every community nationwide. An online Family Budgets Calculator generates an itemized budget for over 400 metropolitan areas by various family types. http://www.epinet.org/ WELFARE REFORM'S IMPACT ON ADOLESCENTS: EARLY WARNING SIGNS - New research from Child Trends finds increased behavior problems and lower academic achievement among teen children of parents enrolled in welfare-to-work programs than in other welfare families. In a surprise to researchers, these negative outcome occurred despite widespread expectations that adolescents would be less affected than younger children by their mothers' entry into the workforce. http://www.childtrends.org -- ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-865-5876 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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