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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Economic self-sufficiency"”.
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Strategy for an economic self-sufficiency program at Bromley Heath
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Tracking and evaluating economic self-sufficiency programs in moving to work housing authorities
… investigates the measurement and evaluation of economic self-sufficiency programs at the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA). CHA has established a reputation as a leading innovator and implementer, but the agency is beginning to recognize the need to improve their capacity for program measurement …
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To be of use : creative practice across the front lines of economic self-sufficiency programs
… frontline practitioners who operate the same two economic self-sufficiency programs in different nonprofit and public low-income housing agencies meet regularly to discuss common challenges, share solutions, and design new approaches to making the programs work better. These observations inform …
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“We Are Not Asking for Handouts!” Amplifying the Voices of African Women Refugees and Moving Beyond Trauma Towards Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Qualitative Inquiry
… skills, as well as low literacy) as they move to economic self-sufficiency and navigate life in their new environment. Yet, very little is understood about the ways African women refugees, who have limited resources, adjust and cope in their new setting. Also, policies and practices employ a …
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Refugee Resettlement and Peacebuilding: Exploring the Roles of Human and Social Capital of Caseworkers in Fulfilling Grassroots Refugee Needs
… time period. This makes helping refugees gain economic self-sufficiency a daunting task. Often, failure to achieve resettlement goals is attributed to the refugees for not possessing the desired skills or networks (human and social capital). This research explores how caseworkers’ …
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Sidonia Hedwig Zaeunemann: The Satirist and Her Struggle for Recognition
… traditional gender roles, and her call for some economic self-sufficiency for women are important in evaluating her contribution to the emancipation of women.
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JOURNEY TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY: AN ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION LEVEL AND EMPLOYMENT HOPE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESIDENTS
… that was implemented with the goal of promoting self-sufficiency of its residents. Self-sufficiency is both economic and psychological. Participants in welfare-to-work programs view self-sufficiency as a process which includes empowerment, autonomy and confidence and not attainable without …
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Ceta Resource Utilization for Youth Served by a State Child Welfare Agency
… agency termination made before youth can assume economic self-sufficiency. Although extensive youth employment programs exist through CETA prime sponsors, only limited use of these resources has been made on behalf of state wards.
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A discourse analysis of U.S. national and state language policies: restraining English instruction for refugee adults
… English language development, integration, and self-sufficiency. The data show how discourses embedded in policies frame English as a Second Language (ESL) programs as an employability service with a principal focus on the achievement of economic self-sufficiency. Moreover, the discourses in the …
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Show me the money : promises and pitfalls of asset growth in community development credit unions and loan funds
… a range of financial services that encourage economic self-sufficiency and wealth in low-income communities. In order to expand their impact, some CDFIs have increased their assets to serve more customers and offer more products and services. This thesis seeks to answer the question: which …
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From "the projects" to houses : Physical redevelopment, poverty deconcentration, and resident self-sufficiency impacts on public housing residents at hope IV developments in Camden, New Jersey
… attempting to deconcentrate poverty and improve self-sufficiency among the affected residents. The distressed housing is usually dilapidated, poorly designed, poorly constructed, poorly maintained, and poorly managed; the residents are very poor, are in constant fear of crime and violence, and …
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"…Economic abuse to me is not seen, you know?" Service provider’s perceptions of women’s experiences of economic abuse within domestic violent relationships
… aims to examine firstly, women’s experiences of economic abuse, through exploring the nature of this abuse; and secondly, how economic abuse may limit women’s agency to leave a violent domestic relationship. In order to provide an understanding of the nature of economic abuse, four focus group …
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The prevalence and rehabilitation needs of individuals with locomotor disability in Mitchell's Plain
… females, and was associated with lower socio-economic class. Multiple impairments were frequently reported, with the most common impairment being musculo-skeletal conditions. Use of health services occurred in the public sector with the local Day Hospital used as frequently as more distant …
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Low-income housing in Kampala, Uganda : a strategy package to overcome barriers for delivering housing opportunities affordable to the urban poor
… distortions that threaten to derail recent economic success and destabilize the social fabric of the community. The majority of government and private developers who build new housing are only providing units affordable to Kampala's minority of wealthy and well-connected elites. The majority …
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Lived experiences of becoming and being a young maternal grandmother: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… improving maternal health, child health and economic self-sufficiency for young mothers, it is important to understand how young maternal grandmothers are, or are not, contributing to Government targets whilst balancing their own working and family lives. This study makes initial steps in …
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Dispatches from the front lines : tracking former welfare recipients and direct service providers in Massachusetts
… is eligible for benefits again or achieves economic self-sufficiency. The welfare recipient's survival during each of the phases is dependent her strategy or approach to the transition, her level of preparation for the workforce, the support she receives from her family and advocate …
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Essays in the economics of public housing policy
This dissertation presents three studies of an economic analysis of federally-funded housing assistance programs on the quality of a recipient’s locational decisions, psychological well-being, and labor market outcomes. It features a restricted-use of the administrative data (household-level) and …
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Optimización de la unidad de explotación del concesionario operador de terminal de contenedores. Aplicación al sistema portuario español
… within the current legal framework, in which the economic self-sufficiency of the port system as a whole is one of the basic pillars on which our regulative framework is based and in view of the drastic decrease of European Funds to the Kingdom of Spain, for the current 6-years' term (2007-2013) …