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 f9TK57029666; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:05:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:05:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001915b8036546d40b@[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:346] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2701 Lines: 62 The following information 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, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ************************************ OCTOBER 26, 2001 IMPROVING FAMILY LEAVE OPTIONS FOR LOW-WAGE FAMILIES - 25 states are actively considering income support proposals from building on existing disability insurance programs to expanding unemployment insurance systems, reports National Partnership for Women and Families. http://www.nationalpartnership.org/workandfamily/fmleave/GeneralAudience1.htm OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME ONLINE FORUM - Harvard Family Research Project debuts an interactive resource for people involved in the Out-of-School Time field. The new forum includes audio recordings and more from this summer's After School Evaluation Symposium in Washington D.C. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/symposium/intro.html U.S. BORN CHILDREN OF NON-CITIZEN LESS LIKELY TO RECEIVE CASH ASSISTANCE - Due to stigma of cash assistance, many U.S.-born children of non-citizen immigrants do not receive benefits to which they are entitled, finds Johns Hopkins study. Researchers said immigrants may fear that receipt of cash assistance will inhibit them in obtaining citizenship. http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/19027_WelfareBriefFall.pdf CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION - During National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Oct 21-27, HUD announced $59 million in Lead Hazard Control Grants and an additional $8 million in grants under HUD's Healthy Home Program. http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr01-108.cfm For Lead Poisoning Prevention Outreach and Education Tools from Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning, see: http://www.aeclp.org FINANCIAL LINKS FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE - A new program in Illinois offers free tools and instruction in basic financial education to help low-income workers become savvy consumers and avoid abusive lending practices. http://www.ilworkforce.org/Docs/Newsletter/Oct2001.pdf -- ****************** 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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