Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9TK1x029241; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:01:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:01:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001914b80364bbb334@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:335] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4521 Lines: 88 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 REAUTHORIZATION ROUNDUP: TANF Reauthorization Act of 2001 - American Public Human Services Association reports H.R. 3113, introduced Oct 12 by Rep. Patsy Mink (D-Hawaii) with 30 Democratic cosponsors, proposes replacing the out-of-wedlock bonus with a bonus to reward states that reduce child poverty, and changing the high performance bonus criteria to measures based on employment placement, success in removing barriers to self- sufficiency, and the provision of work supports. It also adds activities that count toward work; modifies the contingency fund; mandates assessments upon request; eliminates sanctions against teenage parents not attending high school; increases exceptions to the federal time limit; mandates the notification of recipient rights; eliminates special rules for aliens and bans full family sanctions and application diversion practices. Several provisions would have a dramatic impact on the child support program. http://www.aphsa.org/reauthor/rr102401.asp#tanf PENNSYLVANIA JOB RETENTION STUDY: Experience with Performance Goals - A new publication from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., highlights operational lessons from Community Solutions, a PA initiative to provide job placement and employment retention services to TANF participants. The state sought out diverse contractors that could provide pre-and postemployment services. Contractors were paid based on the number of participants who achieved specific employment goals. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/redirect.asp?strSite=commsolisbr.pdf WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT WELFARE REFORM IN CALIFORNIA - The number of families on welfare in California has declined much faster than the poverty rate and those who leave welfare work at low wages. California spends available Federal and State Funds for CalWORKs. The California Budget Project summarizes key information about CalWORKs caseloads, poverty, former welfare recipients, and the spending of state and federal welfare funds in a fact sheet prepared for the Oct 25 HHS listening and discussion session in San Francisco. http://www.cbp.org/qhits/qh011023.html EMERGING ISSUES IN WELFARE REFORM LITIGATION - Welfare Information Network provides a listing of sites to facilitate the tracking of litigation, as well as a summary of selected court decisions and publications, resource contacts and other information relating to PWORA litigation. http://www.welfareinfo.org/emergingissuesresource.htm CONSENSUS TO BUILD THE 21st CENTURY WORKFORCE - Goodwill Industries International announces a national initiative to engage the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to impact the reauthorization process of federal workforce legislation and to focus on an integrated workforce development system. A series of grassroots meetings will be held in: Dallas, TX; Colorado Springs, CO; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Baltimore, MD; Great Falls, MT; Macon, GA; San Francisco, CA; St. Paul, MN; Springfield, MA/Hartford, CT; Grand Island, NE; Chicago, IL; and Charlotte, NC. For more information email: consensus@goodwill.org. BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT - A new Workforce Development resource is now available from The Finance Project. http://www.financeproject.org/workforce_business.htm -- ****************** 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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