Further Information

Programs and Organizations

Chrysalis Labor Connection
516 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013-1422
(213) 895-7777
www.chrysalisworks.org

National Governors' Association, Center for Best Practices
444 North Capital Street
Suite 267
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 624-5300
www.nga.org

Project Match
Erikson Institute
420 N. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 755-2250 ext. 4001
www.pmatch.org

Public/Private Ventures
One Commerce Place
2005 Market Street
Suite 900
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 557-4400
www.ppv.org

Steps to Success
Mount Hood Community College
P. O. Box 33650
Portland, OR 97292
(503) 256-0432
www.steps-2-success.org

Vocational Foundation Inc.
902 Broadway
New York, NY 10010
(212) 777-0700

Welfare Information Network
1341 G Street, NW
Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 628-5790
www.welfareinfo.org

Welfare to Work Partnership
1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 610
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 955-3005
www.welfaretowork.org

Publications

Brown, Amy. 1997. Work First: How to Implement an Employment-Focused Approach to Wel-fare Reform. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. Full Report

Brown, Amy, Maria L. Buck, and Erik Skinner. 1998. Business Partnerships: How to Involve Employers in Welfare Reform. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
Full Report

Brown, Rebecca, et al. 1998. Working Out of Poverty: Employment Retention and Career Ad-vancement for Welfare Recipients. Washington, DC: National Governors' Association, Center for Best Practices.

Hershey, Alan M., and LaDonna Pavetti. 1997. "Turning Job Finders into Job Keepers." The Future of Children: Welfare to Work 7, 1.

Rangarajan, Anu. 1998. Keeping Welfare Recipients Employed: A Guide for States Designing Job Retention Services. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Rangarajan, Anu, and Tim Novak. 1999. The Struggle to Sustain Employment: The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Rangarajan, Anu, Peter Schochet, and Dexter Chu. 1998. Employment Experiences of Welfare Recipients Who Find Jobs: Is Targeting Possible? Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Scrivener, Susan, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, and Christine Schwartz. 1998. Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program. National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; and U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary and Office of Vocational and Adult Education. http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/isp/Portland/xsportld.htm

Strawn, Julie, and Karin Martinson. Forthcoming, 2000. Steady Work and Better Jobs: How to Help Low-Income Parents Sustain Employment and Advance in the Workplace. New York: Man-power Demonstration Research Corporation.
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